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Calendar
| 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
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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
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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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