News and Events

Fall 2005

Lectures and Colloquia:

September 2005:

UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University
Departments of German
Works in Progress Series
"Body Parts: Gender and the Metonymy of Violence in Medieval and Modern German Culture"
Lectures by:
Professor Ann Marie Rasmussen
German, Duke University
"Wandering Genitalia in Medieval German Literature" and
Professor Richard Langston
German, UNC-CH
"Peter Weiss and the Exilic Body" Wednesday, September 7th
7:00 PM
North Carolina Hillel
UNC-CH Campus
210 West Cameron Avenue

Duke University
Department of German
Lecture Series
Marshall Brown
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Adjunct Professor of Germanics and Music
University of Washington, Seattle
"Mozart with Hegel: Non-Giovanni"
Friday, September 16, 2005
4:30 - 5:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center
Room 240

October 2005:

UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University
Departments of German
Works in Progress Series
Maya Gerig
German, UNC-CH
"Politik im Frauenroman um 1800:
Der Kindesmord oder Unzucht und ihre Folgen"

Thursday, October 6th
7:00 PM
North Carolina Hillel
UNC-CH Campus
210 West Cameron Avenue

Duke University
Department of German
Lecture Series
Professor John McCarthy
German, Vanderbilt University
"Schiller und die Gravitationslehre"
Friday, October 21st
4:30 PM
119 Old Chemistry Building
Duke Campus
Reception follows

November 2005:

Duke University
Department of German
German Studies Workshop
Professor Dr. Jochen Vogt
Universität Essen / Duke University
Professor Dr. h.c. Hugh Ridley
University College Dublin
"Teaching German Literature"
Friday, November 4th
2:30 - 5:00 PM
119 Old Chemistry Building
Duke West Campus
Food and Drink will be provided

UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University
Departments of German
Works in Progress Series
Barbara Lechleitner
German, Duke University
"Herz mit Paprika: Marika Rökk
and the German Film Industry 1933-1945"

Wednesday, November 16th
7:00 PM
North Carolina Hillel
UNC-CH Campus
210 West Cameron Avenue

December 2005:

Duke University
Department of German
Lecture and Farewell Reception
in honor of
Professor Dr. Jochen Vogt
Universität Duisburg-Essen
"Sooo hoch!?" Wie die "Statue of Liberty" aus der deutschen Literatur verschwand
Thursday, December 8th
4:30 PM
119 Old Chemistry Building
Duke West Campus
Reception to follow the lecture



Special Events:


Check out links:
"The Year of Languages"

Stammtisch:
Thursdays 6:00p
Café Francesca's
Ninth Street
Ein Abend in Indien
Thursday, November 3, 7:30 - 9:30
Dale's Indian Cuisine
on Ninth Street
International Foodfest
Friday, October 28, 4:00 - 6:00
West Campus Quad

Film Series Fall '05

Rosenstrasse (2003)
Thursday September 22nd
7:00pm
101 West Duke Building
East Campus
In German with English subtitles
Free and open to the public

Nirgendwo in Afrika
(Nowhere in Africa)
2003 Academy Award Winner
Best foreign language film
Thursday October 21st
7:00p
101 West Duke Building
East Campus
In German with English subtitles
Free and open to the public

Docudrama:
Shanghai Ghetto (2002)
Thursday November 17th
7:00p
101 West Duke Building
East Campus
English narration by Martin Landau
Free and open to the public


WAHLFEST 2005
German Federal Elections

Come watch election returns
live
Sunday, September 18, 2005

starting at 11:30 AM
West Campus Language Lab
German snacks and drinks
provided

Check out links:
German Federal Elections

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