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December 2003
Duke University Department of Germanic Languages & Literature
presents:
Ersin Yildiz
Visiting Scholar in the Literature Program
"Politik Des Ausnahmezustandes" Carl Schmitts politische Theorie und die Konstitution des Empire"
Friday, December 5th
3:00 PM
119 Old Chemistry Building
A Reception will follow
Readings by both Schmitt and Michael Hardt
available in the offices of the German Department and the Literature Program.
November 2003
Duke University Department of Germanic Languages & Literature
presents:
Dr. Immo Stabreit
former German Ambassador to the United States, France, and South Africa and Karl von der Heyden Visiting International Fellow in residence
"An Appeal for the Diplomatic Profession"
Want to pursue a career in the Foreign Service? Our countries need good diplomats today more than ever. Come and listen to a retired senior diplomat discuss the arguments for choosing this wonderful career!
Tuesday, November 11th
5:30 PM
Breedlove Room
204 Perkins Library
Food and drink will be provided
Co-sponsored by the Karl von der Heyden Visiting International Fellows Endowment
Duke University Departments of Art & Art History
and Germanic Languages & Literature
present:
Professor Harold Mah
Associate Professor of History
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario Canada
"Strange Classicism: Affliction and Visuality in Modern German Culture"
Monday, November 10th
5:15 PM
204B East Duke Building
East Campus
The lecture is related to Professor Mah's newest book, Enlightenment Phantasies: Cultural Identity in France and Germany, 1750-1914 (Cornell University Press), appearing this autumn. He is also author of The End of Philosophy, the “Origin” of Ideology: Karl Marx and the Crisis of the Young Hegelians (University of California Press, 1987). Writing on cultural and intellectual European history, with special focus on Germany, his work is of interest to art historians in its exploration of issues of visuality and art historiography.
Duke University Germanic Languages & Literature
presents:
Daniel Purdy
Associate Professor
German Department
Penn State University
"The Building in Bildung: Architectural Spectatorship in Goethe and Benjamin"
Friday, November 7th
4:30 PM
119 Old Chem
West Campus
Reception to Follow
October 2003
Duke University Germanic Languages & Literature
presents:
Dr. Daniel Villanueva
Assistant Professor of German
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
"Getting to Know You: Max Frisch's 'Fragebogen' in the Intermediate-Level Classroom"
Friday, October 24th
4:30 PM
119 Old Chem
West Campus
Reception to Follow
Duke University Germanic Languages & Literature
presents:
Dr. Immo Stabreit
former German Ambassador to the United States, France, and South Africa and Karl von der Heyden Visiting International Fellow
"Iraq and All That" A European View On the Terrorist
Threat and the Iraq Imbroglio
Thursday, October 16th
5:30 PM
Carpenter Board Room
Perkins Library
West Campus
Reception to Follow
Co-sponsored by the Karl von der Heyden Visiting International Fellows Endowment
September 2003
The German Studies Program, the History Department, the Institute for Public Policy, and the Center for European Studies present:
Professor Roman Horak
University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Turkish Migrants and Adopted Blackness: Diaspora Experience, American Popular Music, and Hybrid Youth Cultures in Vienna
Tuesday, September 23rd
4:30 PM
119 Old Chem
West Campus
Germanic Languages & Literature with the Department of English and the Program in Literature present:
W.G. SEBALD IN HIS OWN WORDS
An audio-visual presentation in English and German (English translations of German texts will be provided)
Professor Gordon Turner
University of East Anglia
Norwich, UK
Thursday, September 25rd
5:30 PM
111 Social Sciences
West Campus
Reception to Follow
The German Studies Program, the History Department, the Institute for Public Policy, and the Center for European Studies present:
Dr. Roman Maderthaner
Director of the Institute for the History of the Labor Movement, Vienna
The Other Fin de Siècle Vienna: Textures of the Modern and Viennese Urban Studies
Friday, September 26th
4:30 PM
119 Old Chem
West Campus
Reception to Follow
German Studies Colloquium
Brian Thomas
The Human/ist Subject in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: A Concealed Monogram
Friday, September 12th
4:00 PM
119 Old Chem
West Campus
Reception follows in 116M Old Chem
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