August

Welcome Week Mini-Lecture Series

Monday 19

LECTURE: Niklaus Largier, "Who Am I, What Am I? Imagining the Self Before Modernity"

2-3 pm, room 370 Dwinelle

Wednesday 21

LECTURE: Eli Katz, "Why Yiddish?"

1-2 pm, room 83 Dwinelle

Thursday 22

LECTURE: Deniz Göktürk, "Kafka Goes to the Movies"

2-3 pm, room 142 Dwinelle

Friday 23

LECTURE: Hinrich Seeba, "Strangers to Themselves: National versus Personal Identity in German Culture."

10-11 am, room 370 Dwinelle

LECTURE: Lynne Frame, Tes Skogmo "What's Cool About German!"

11 am-12 pm, room 370 Dwinelle

Monday 26 Instruction begins

September

Monday 2 Academic and Administrative Holiday

 

Thursday 12

LECTURE: Thomas Hettche - Lesung und Diskussion über Deutsche Literatur heute

2 pm, room 3401 Dwinelle

Thursday 26

LECTURE: Walter H. Sokel, "The Myth of Power and the Self: Approaches to Reading the 'Metamorphosis'" (PDF)

 

3:30 pm, room 155 Kroeber

October

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Tuesday 29

Art History Dept. LECTURE:"From Peter Paul Rubens to Michaelina Woutiers: The Face(-Lift) of Flemish Baroque Art", by Peter Paul Rubens Professor for the History and Culture of the Low Countries Katlijne Van der Stighelen (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium)

 

5:00 pm, 308J Doe Library

Rhetoric Dept. LECTURE: "Words in Blood, Like Flowers: Poetry and Music in Nietzsche, Hšlderlin, Heidegger", by Babette Babich (Fordham University)

5:00 pm, Room 370 Dwinelle

November

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Friday 1

LECTURE: "The Dead Hand: Trusts and Vampires", by Stefan Andriopoulos (German Department, Columbia University).
Co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature.

 

3:00 pm, room 3335 Dwinelle

Thursday 7

IES LECTURE:"Transatlantic Relations: Usual Schism oder New Partnership? Germany and the US. after Nine eleven", Claus Leggewie

 

4 pm, 201 Moses Hall

Friday 8

LECTURE: "Immigration into a national past? German-Turks and collective memory", Claus Leggewie

 

12 pm, 3401 Dwinelle

Monday 11 Academic and Administrative Holiday

 

Tuesday 19

LECTURE: "When History Meets Fantasy: Masochism in Literature and Film", by Barbara Mennel
(Assistant Professor of German Studies and International Cinema, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Beatrice M. Bain Research Group on Gender at the University of California, Berkeley)

 

December

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Saturday 7 Instruction Ends

Wednesday 11 - Thursday 19 Finals Examinations

December 24-25 Academic and Administrative Holiday

January 2003

December 31-January 1 Academic and Administrative Holiday

February

Tuesday 18

LECTURE: "Young Man, Go East! Investigating Colonial Topoi in Dutch Literature"(PDF), Reinier Salverda (University College London)

4 pm, 3119 Dwinelle

Friday 21

NOONTIME COLLOQUIUM: "Ratten und Elfen die Helfen: The Fairy-Tale Logic of German Bildung", Katrin Pahl.

 

12 pm, 5303 Dwinelle

Thursday 27

LECTURE:"Transforming the Public Sphere. Eighteenth Century Literary Societies and the Rise of a National Cultural Community."(PDF), Marleen de Vries (Freie Universität Berlin)

12:30 pm, 3401 Dwinelle Hall

READING (in German): Zafer Senocak, Max Kade Foundation Distinguished Visitor; Co-sponsored by the Goethe Institut, SF

4 pm, 117 Dwinelle

Friday 28

WORKSHOP: "Rethinking Diversity", in conjunction with German 268 (D. Göktürk and Z. Senocak).

2-5 pm, 3401 Dwinelle

March

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Monday 3

LECTURE: "Hugo Grotius and the Spanish Black Legend: Rights Theories, Humanist Historiography and Hispanophobia in Seventeenth Century Holland.", Martine Julia van Ittersum (Department of History, Harvard University)

12:30 pm, 3401 Dwinelle Hall

Tuesday 4

NOONTIME COLLOQUIUM: "Kafka's Bed: Tracing the Bed Motif and the Significance of Spheres in his Novel Der Prozeß", Anastasia Hacopian (Humboldt University)

12 pm, Dwinelle 282

Monday 10

LECTURE: "Zöllner against Helmholtz: Academic Communication as Witchcraft", Albert Kümmel (Cologne, UCSB) Co-sponsored by the Office for History of Science and Technolog, the Institute of European Studies,and the German Department,

5:00-6:30 pm, 123 Dwinelle Hall

Tuesday 11

NOONTIME COLLOQUIUM: "The Parable of the Dragon", Tonya Dewey (UC Berkeley)

12 pm, Dwinelle 282

Thursday 13

LECTURE: "Dutch Obsessions: The Representation of Space and the Space of Representation", Ernst van Alphen (Department of Literary Studies, University of Leiden)

12:30 pm, 3401 Dwinelle Hall

Saturday 15-Sunday 16

CONFERENCE: Eleventh Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference at the University of California at Berkeley SPEAKING BETWEEN: LANGUAGE AND INTERSUBJECTIVITY (program in PDF format)

Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall

Keynote Speaker Mark Turner: "Speech Blends"

Saturday, 1 p.m.

Max Kade Visiting Scholar Zafer Senocak: "Beyond the Language of the Land"

Sunday, 1 p.m.

Monday 17

GERMAN DEPARTMENT OPEN HOUSE
Participating high schools: Berkeley High, Castro Valley HS, Foothill HS

April

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week of 7-11 April

LECTURE: "Gendered Geographics: Early Romantic Dreams of Empire", Todd Kontje (UC San Diego)

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Friday 11

NOONTIME COLLOQUIUM: "Eine Teufelsneurose im 20. Jahrhundert: Sigmund Freuds Begegnung mit dem erblindeten Spiegel", Robert Clarke (UC Berkeley)

Monday 21

LECTURE: "Laokoon's Skin", Michel Chaouli (Indiana University) Co-sponsored with Comparative Literature

4 pm, room tba

May

Monday 19

COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY

June

July

Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable

The Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable meets biennially in even-numbered years.

Contact Information:

Irmengard Rauch
Department of German
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720

irauch@socrates.berkeley.edu
Phone (510) 642-2003
phone/fax (707) 746-7480

The Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable is supported by the University of California Berkeley Center for German and European Studies and the Max Kade Foundation, Inc.

Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference

Each year the graduate students of the department organize and host a two-day conference on a specific interdisciplinary theme. The conference offers students and faculty from the U. S. and abroad an opportunity to present their research on such diverse topics as: "Finite Subjects: Mortality and Culture in Germany" (2002), "Self-Made Germans: Authenticity, Authority and Self-Fashioning" (2001), "The German Soldier" (2000), "Reading Turn-of-the-Century Culture at the Turn of the Century" (1999), "Building Memory: City Space and Urban Experience" (1998), and "Conquering Women: Gender and War" (1997). Our recent conferences have received great praise from faculty and students both at Berkeley and around the country. They familiarize students with all phases of the conference process and provide unique insight into what constitutes an effective abstract and academic presentation.

Eleventh Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference
at the University of California at Berkeley
March 15-16

SPEAKING BETWEEN: LANGUAGE AND INTERSUBJECTIVITY

"Language is not simply means for understanding, but the impression of the mind and world-view of the speaker. [. . .] That is why the learning of a foreign language is the achievement of a new standpoint in the present world." Wilhelm von Humboldt

When our personal narratives no longer intersect, due to the fragmentary, heteroglossic nature of identity construction in the postmodern era, how do we create community or a sense of it? What roles do language, ideology and power play in community formation? And how does the meaning-making subject interact with and through the semiotic systems of its communities? The graduate students of the German Department at the University of California at Berkeley welcome scholars from across the disciplines to engage in this theoretical discussion.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM (pdf file)

The conference will take place at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall

Contact for more information:

Tes Skogmo
Department of German
University of California at Berkeley
5319 Dwinelle Hall, MC 3243
Berkeley, CA 94720-3243

tes1@uclink4.berkeley.edu

Semiotic Circle of California

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