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Man gibt seine Kinder auf die Schule, daß sie still werden, auf die Hochschule, daß sie laut werden.
— Jean Paul

Archives: 2008 - 2009

08/29/2008 -
09/26/2008 - "The Body in Literature"- taught by Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor Claudia Benthien: German 204- Compact Seminar
09/25/2008 -
09/27/2008 - "Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe?": September 25-27, 2008
10/09/2008 - Poetry Slam: The Goethe Institute and UC Berkeley present:
10/31/2008 - New Perspective on German Romanticism: by Ruediger Campe & Jocelyn Holland
11/07/2008 - From Famine to Food Crisis: Lecture by Eric Vanhaute
11/10/2008 - "The Martyr is the Message. Representation, Theatricality and Secularization in German Baroque Drama": by Daniel Weidner
11/10/2008 - Multicultural Identity in Europe- The Swiss model: Lecture by Roger de Weck
11/18/2008 - Advertising a Strange Case: Lecture by Iso Camartin
12/01/2008 - Provo and After: Lecture by Jan Donkers
12/04/2008 - Plea for a Mobile Identity: Lecture by Hugo Loetscher
01/24/2009 - Semiotic Circle of California:
02/19/2009 - Howard Caygill (Professor of Cultural History, Goldsmiths College, University of London): Kafka and the Survival of Shame
02/26/2009 - Andreas Huyssen (Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University): Third Annual Weisinger Lecture
03/13/2009 -
03/15/2009 - 17th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference: The Threat and Allure of The Magical in Literature, Language, Philosophy, History and the Arts
03/13/2009 -
03/15/2009 - 17th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference:
05/07/2009 - Omulaule film event: Screening of Omulaule Means Black