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January 2008

26.

Time: 7:30 pm

Location: 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Avenue

Cinematheque: Michael Haneke Film Series: A Cinema of Provocation

Funny Games Austria, 1997

more information http://cinema.wisc.edu/series/2008_spring/haneke.htm

27.

Time: 4:00 pm

Location: 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Avenue

Cinematheque: Michael Haneke Film Series: A Cinema of Provocation

Three Paths to the Lake (Drei Wege zum See) Austria/West Germany 1976

more information http://cinema.wisc.edu/series/2008_spring/haneke.htm

 

February 2008

1.

Time: noon

Location: University Club

Center for the Humanities "What is Human?" Lunch program

Hans Adler: “Humanity is/was not 'humane': A Programmatic Reminder.”

Attendance by reservation only! Reservation Deadline: 29. Jan. noon. wih@humanities.wisc.edu.

Information

9.

Time: 7:30 pm

Location: 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Avenue

Cinematheque: Michael Haneke Film Series: A Cinema of Provocation

The Castle (Das Schloß) Austria, 1997

more information http://cinema.wisc.edu/series/2008_spring/haneke.htm

10.

Time: 4:00 pm

Location 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Avenue

Cinematheque: Michael Haneke Film Series: A Cinema of Provocation

Who was Edgar Allan? (Wer war Edgar Allan?) Austria/West Germany, 1984.

more information http://cinema.wisc.edu/series/2008_spring/haneke.htm

13.

Time: 6:30 pm

Location: 1418 Van Hise Hall

Global Studies and the German Department Roundtable invite you to the following Lecture:

Introduction of German Law and Legislation in the German Protectorate Cameroon

Speaker: Professor David Simo, Professor and Head of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Civilizations, University of Yaoundé, Cameroon

more information

14.

Time: 4-6 pm

Location 104 Van Hise Hall

Global Studies and the German Department Roundtable invite you to the following Workshop:

Screening of Le Malentendu colonial (Jean-Marie Téno, 2005) followed by a discussion led by David Simo

more information

14.

Time: 4-5 pm

Location: Van Hise 832

Kaffeestunde

All speakers of German are welcome.

15.

Time: 4 pm

Location: Humanities Building 1641

"Between Dissonance and Dissidence: Socialist Modernism in the German Democratic Republic"

Prof. Laura Silverberg, Columbia University, Department of Music

Contact: pmpotter@wisc.edu

16.

Time: 7:30 pm

Locaation: 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Avenue

Cinematheque: Michael Haneke Film Series: A Cinema of Provocation

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls) Austria, 1994.

more information http://cinema.wisc.edu/series/2008_spring/haneke.htm

16.

Time: 9:20 pm

Location: 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Avenue

Cinematheque: Michael Haneke Film Series: A Cinema of Provocation

Benny's Video Austria.Switzerland, 1992.

more information http://cinema.wisc.edu/series/2008_spring/haneke.htm

17.

Time: 4:00 pm

Location: 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Avenue

Cinematheque: Michael Haneke Film Series: A Cinema of Provocation

The Rebellion (Die Rebellion) Austria, 1993

more information http://cinema.wisc.edu/series/2008_spring/haneke.htm

21.

Time: 4-5 pm

Location: Van Hise 832

Kaffeestunde

All speakers of German are welcome.

28.

Time: 4-5 pm

Location: Van Hise 832

Kaffeestunde

All speakers of German are welcome.

 

March 2008

6.

Time: 4:30 pm

Location: 122 Ingraham Hall

Germany and her Immigrants: "In the past people called me a Turk. Now they call me Muslim"

A discussion with Dr. Dietrich Thränhardt, Professor of Political Science at the University of Münster.

More Information PDF / WORD

6.

Time: 4-5 pm

Location: Van Hise 832

Kaffeestunde

All speakers of German are Welcome

8.

Time: 7:30 pm

Location: 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Avenue

Cinematheque: Michael Haneke Film Series: A Cinema of Provocation

The Seventh Continent (Der siebente Kontinent) USA, 1948.

more information http://cinema.wisc.edu/series/2008_spring/haneke.htm

9.

Time: 4:00 pm

Location: 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Avenue

Cinematheque: Michael Haneke Film Series: A Cinema of Provocation

Fraulein: A German Melodrama (Fraulein) Austria/West Germany, 1986.

more information http://cinema.wisc.edu/series/2008_spring/haneke.htm

27.

Time: 4-5 pm

Location: Van Hise 832

Kaffeestunde

All speakers of German are welcome.

28-29

Time: TBA

Location: TBA

GDGSA Graduate Student Conference: Recognizing (Dis)Order

Information

30.

Time: 4:00 pm

Location: 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Avenue

Cinematheque: Michael Haneke Film Series: A Cinema of Provocation

The Rebellion (Die Rebellion) Austria, 1993

more information http://cinema.wisc.edu/series/2008_spring/haneke.htm

 

April 2008

3.

Time: 4-5 pm

Location: Van Hise 832

Kaffeestunde

All speakers of German are welcome.

4.

Time: 4-7 pm

Location: Pyle Center, Lakeshore Room

Monatshefte celebration of the 100st volume of the journal.

Monatshefte has been the oldest scholarly journal in the United States that covers the field of German literature and culture. The 100st volume is a milestone in the life of this journal and also a remarkable achievement of the Department of German which has hosted the journal since 1928.

The editorial team of Monatshefte (Hans Adler, Sabine Gross, and Kris Imbrigotta), The Department of German, and the University of Wisconsin Press will be hosting the party. Kevin Reilly (President of the UW System), John Wiley (Chancellor of the UW Madison), Susan Cook (Associate Dean of the Graduate School), Magdalena Hauner (Associate Dean of the College of Letters and Science)  will join us.

10.

Time: 4-5 pm

Location: Van Hise 832

Kaffeestunde

All speakers of German are welcome.

17.

Time: 4-5 pm

Location: Van Hise 832

Kaffeestunde

All speakers of German are welcome.

22

Time: 4:30 - 6:30 pm,

Location: 336 Ingraham

The Literaturlenz (readings by 3 German authors)

Michael Kleeberg (Germany): www.literaturfestival.com/bios1_3_6_846.html
Catalin Dorian Florescu (Switzlerland) www.florescu.ch/index2.html
Thomas Glavinic (Austria) www.thomas-glavinic.de/

24.

Location: Memorial Union

German Day (High School German Contest)

Contact: Charles James

24.

Time: 4-5 pm

Location: Van Hise 832

Kaffeestunde

All speakers of German are welcome.

29.

Time: 2-3:15 pm

Location: 206 Ingraham

Roundtable / Global Studies Workshop with:

Aamir Mufti

 

29.

Time: 7-9 pm

Location: 19 Ingraham

Roundtable / Global Studies Lecture with:

Aamir Mufti

29.

Time: 5-7 pm

Location: University Club

German Department Honors Banquet

5pm - cash bar
5:45pm - dinner
6:15pm - "The Temptation of Hope" by Professor Klaus Berghahn
6:30pm - awards ceremony

Contact: Jim Steakley

 

May 2008
1.

Time: 4-5 pm

Location: Van Hise 832

Kaffeestunde

All speakers of German are welcome.

5.

Time: TBA

Location: TBA

Brown-Bag Lunch with 3 recent German Dept. Ph.D.s: Carrie Jackson (Penn State), Mary O'Brien (Calgary) and Katerina Somers Wocka (Georgia).

Contact: Rob Howell

5.

Time: 6 pm

Location: Pyle Center Auditorium

Hilldale Lecture: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford University)

A Future University without  Humanities?

Reception: 5:30 pm
Lecture: 6:00 pm
Free and Open to the Public.

Contact: Hans Adler
Poster

6.

Time: noon-2 pm

Location: Van Hise 1418

Brown Bag Discussion: "What Are Universities Good For?"

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Free and Open to the Public

6.

Time: 2:30-4 pm

Location: 206 Ingraham

Paul Cooke (Professor of German Cultural Studies, University of Leeds) presents:

Testing the LImits of Consensual Filmmaking? Representing National Socialism on Screen and German "Nationalism"

8

Time: 4-6 pm

Location: Van Hise 832

Kaffeestunde

All speakers of German are welcome.

October 2008
24-26.

Time: TBA

Location: Pyle Center

The Weimar Moment: Liberalism, Political Theology and Law

See the conference website for conference and registration information: http://law.wisc.edu/ils/weimarconference.html

 

 

 

 

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