Events
Biennial Symposium on German Language and Culture
March/April, biennially • Location & Time: as scheduled
Every other year, the department hosts an international symposium on German Language and Culture. Scholars from Europe and the United States, graduate students, members of the university community, and all other interested persons are encouraged to attend.
This event is free and open to the public.
Upcoming Event
March 26-28, 2010
The 20th St. Louis Symposium on German Literature and Culture
Title: Contemporary German Literature: Representative Authors
Organizers: Paul Michael Lützeler, Jennifer Kapczynski
Website: t/b/a
Past Symposia
19th Biennial Symposium (2008)
Consuming News: Newspapers and Print Culture in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800)
Organizers: Gerhild Williams and William Layher
More information: Website • Announcement • Article (Calvin Trillin lecture)
18th Biennial Symposium (2006)
After the Digital Divide?: German Aesthetic Theory in the Age of New Media
Organizers: Lutz Koepnick and Erin McGlothlin
More information: Website • Article (Olafur Eliasson lecture)
17th Biennial Symposium (2004)
Transfer Effects: The Appropriation of German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
Organizers: Lynne Tatlock and Matt Erlin
More information: Website
Published as: German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America: Reception, Adaption, Transformation, eds. Lynne Tatlock and Matt Erlin. Publisher: Camden House (2005) [Olin Library Call No. E183.8.G3 G474 2005]
16th Biennial Symposium (2002)
Between the Local and the Global: Revisiting the Sites of German Cinema
Organizers: Stephan Schindler, Lutz Koepnick
More information: Website
Published as: The Cosmopolitan Screen: German Cinema and the Global Imaginary, 1945 to the Present, eds. Lutz Koepnick and Stephan Schindler. Publisher: University of Michigan Press (2007) [Olin Library Call No. PN1993.5.G3 C673 2007]
15th Biennial Symposium (2000)
Heinrich von Kleist's Works: Aspects of Displacement and Deracination
Organizers: Paul Michael Lutzeler, David Pan
Published as: Kleists Erzählungen und Dramen: neue Studien, eds. Paul Michael Lützeler and David Pan. Publisher: Königshausen & Neumann (2001) [Olin Library Call No. PT2379.Z5 K545 2001]
14th Biennial Symposium (1998)
The Construction of Authority in German Literature of the Medieval & Early Modern Periods
Organizers: James Poag, Claire Baldwin
Published as: The construction of Textual Authority in German literature of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods, eds. James F. Poag and Claire Baldwin. Publisher: University of North Carolina Press (2001). [Olin Library Call No. PT171 .C66 2001]
13th Biennial Symposium (1996)
Zeitenwenden/Wendezeiten : Ein halbes Jahrhundert deutsche Literatur (1945-1995). Psychosen, Diagnosen, Prognosen
Organizers: Robert Weninger, Brigitte Rossbacher
Published as: Wendezeiten, Zeitenwenden: Positionsbestimmungen zur deutschsprachigen Literatur, 1945-1995, eds. Robert Weninger and Brigitte Rossbacher; Publisher: Stauffenburg (1197) [Olin Library Call No. PT405 W365 1997]
12th Biennial Symposium (1994)
Knowledge, Science, & Literature in the Early Modern Period
Organizers: Gerhild Williams, Stephan Schindler
Published as: Knowledge, Science, and Literature in Early Modern Germany, eds. Gerhild Scholz Williams and Stephan K. Schindler. Publisher: University of North Carolina Press (1996). [Olin Library Call No. PD25 .N6 116]
11th Biennial Symposium (1992)
The Graph of Sex and the German Text: Early Modern Germany 1500-1700
Organizers: Lynne Tatlock, Christiane Bohnert
Published as: The Graph of Sex and the German Text: Gendered Culture in Early Modern Germany 1500-1700, eds. Lynne Tatlock and Christiane Bohnert. Publisher: Editions Rodopi (January 1994) [Olin Library Call No. PT105 C56 19]
10th Biennial Symposium (1990)
Literature of the Eighties
Organizers: Paul Michael Lützeler, John Brawner
Published as: "Literature of the Eighties" theme issue of: The German Quarterly 63 (1990), ed. by Paul Michael Lutzeler and John Brawner. [Olin Library Call No. PF3001 G3 v.63 (1990), also available online via JSTOR (access limited to WU students, faculty, and staff). In German, under the title Spätmoderne und Postmoderne. Beiträge zur deutsch-sprachigen GegenwartsLiterature. Publisher: Fischer Taschenbuch (1991). [Olin Library Call No. PT405 S695 1991]
9th Biennial Symposium (1988)
Entzauberung der Welt: deutsche Literatur 1200-1500
Organizers: James Poag, Thomas C. Fox
Published as: Entzauberung der Welt: deutsche Literatur 1200-1500, eds. James F. Poag and Thomas C. Fox. Publisher: A. Francke (1989) [Olin Library Call No. PT195 E57 1989]
Proceedings of 1986 - 1972 Symposia
• 1986, 8th St. Louis Symposium on German Literature
Literatur und Kosmos: Innen- und Aussenwelten in der deutschen Literatur des 15. bis 17. Jahrhunderts, eds. Gerhild Williams and Lynne Tatlock; Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1986 (=Daphnis 15 2/3 (1986)) [Olin Library Call No. PT238.D34]
• 1984, 7th St. Louis Symposium on German Literature
Goethes Erzählwerk, eds. Paul Michael Lützeler and James E. McLeod; Stuttgart: Reclam, 1984 [Olin Library Call No. PT1984 G63 1985]
• 1982, 6th St. Louis Symposium on German Literature
Das Weiterleben des Mittelalters in der deutschen Literatur, eds. James F. Poag, Gerhild Scholz Williams (Hrsg.) Königstein / Ts., Athenäum, 1982 [Olin Library Call No. PT111 W43 1983]
• 1980, 5th St. Louis Symposium on German Literature
Deutsche Literatur in der Bundesrepublik seit 1965: Untersuchungen und Berichte / eds. Paul Michael Lützeler and Egon Schwarz. Königstein/Ts. Athenäum, 1980 [Olin Library Call No. PT403 D43 1980]
• 1978, 4th St. Louis Symposium on German Literature
Legitimationskrisen des deutschen Adels 1200-1900, eds. Peter Uwe Hohendahl and Paul Michael Lützeler. Stuttgart : Metzler, 1979 [Olin Library Call No. PN51 .L577 11]
• 1976, 3rd St. Louis Symposium on German Literature
Jews and Germans from 1860 to 1933 : The Problematic Symbiosis, ed. David Bronsen. Heidelberg : Winter, 1979 [Olin Library Call No. DS135 G33 J48]
• 1974, 2nd St. Louis Symposium on German Literature
Literatur und Literaturtheorie in der DDR / eds. Peter Uwe Hohendahl and Patricia Herminghouse. Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp, 1976 [Olin Library Call No. PT3716 L57]
• 1972, 1st St. Louis Symposium on German Literature
Exil und innere Emigration II, eds. Peter Uwe Hohendahl and Egon Schwarz. Königstein/Ts. Athenäum, 1973 [Olin Library Call No. PT3808 E95 1972, PT3808 E95 1972 c.2]
