News and Events

Spring 2007

Lectures and Colloquia:


March 2007:

UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University
Departments of German
Works in Progress Series

Charlie Hoag
University of North Carolina
"The Promethean Safari: German Colonialism and the African Imaginary"
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
7:00 PM
Refreshments and conversation
Old Chem Foyer
Lecture
7:30 PM
123 Old Chem

January 2007:

UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University
Departments of German
Works in Progress Series

Professor Ann Marie Rasmussen
Duke University
"Free spirits" in the Middle Ages?
The Problem of Translating frî in 'Der Winsbecke' and 'Die Winsbeckin'

Wednesday, January 17, 2007
7:00 PM
Duke University
123 Old Chemistry
West Campus

Germanic Languages & Literatures UNC

Dr. Christina Gerhardt
Visiting Post-doctoral Fellow
Berlin Program
Free University in Berlin
"Portraits of the RAF: On the October 18, 1977 Cycle by Gerhard Richter"
Thursday, January 18, 2007
5:00 PM
Dey Hall
Room 413

Sonja Klocke
Indiana University
"Trouble in (Socialist) Paradise: On the Powers of Gods and Fantastic Bodies in Kathrin Schmidt's Die Gunnar-Lennefsen-Expedition (1998)"
Thursday, January 25, 2007
5:00 PM
Dey Hall Room 305

Dr. Maria Stehle
Connecticut College
"From Berlin, Kreuzberg to the Banlieues of Paris: The Changing Politics of Ghetto Narratives in German Media"
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
5:00 PM
Dey Hall
Room 305

Febuary 2007:

Germanic Languages & Literatures UNC

Martha B. Helfer
Rutgers Uiversity
"What is Literary Antisemitism?"
Thursday, February 1, 2007
5:00 PM
York Reading Room

Dr. Anna Parkinson
Cornell University
"T. W. Adorno's Affective Passages: Voicing a Minima Moralia; Contemplating a Melancholy Science"
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
5:00 PM Toy Lounge
Dey Hall

Duke Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Susan Baackmann
Associate Professor of German Studies
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
"Prosthetic Illusions of Masculinity: Hans Bellmer's Dolls and the Fascist Imaginary"
Thursday, February 8, 2007
108 East Duke Bdg

Translatable

Poetry Against the Clash of Civilizations
Dick Davis
Ohio State University
and Jane V. Curran
Dalhousie University
Thursday, February 8, 2007
7:30 PM
Old Chem 123

A Trick of Sunlight
Reading by Dick Davis
Friday, February 9, 2007
7:30 PM
Breedlove Room
Perkins Library


Germanic Languages & Literatures UNC

Diedrich Diederichsen
Professor of Theory at the Merz Akademie School of Design in Stuttgart
"What's left of music when modern metaphors of its watery state become literal and music turns to liquid?"
Monday, February 12, 2007
5:30 PM
Toy Lounge
Dey Hall (fourth floor)
UNC-CH

UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University Departments of German Works in Progress Series

Christophe Fricker
Duke University
Postdoctoral Fellow
"Interpretationen der Vorläufigkeit: Stefan George und Mörike"
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
7:00 PM
Refreshments and conversation
Old Chem Foyer
7:30 PM
123 Old Chem

March 2007:

Duke University
Department of Germanic Languages and Literature

Fellows of the Fletcher Opera Institute

Liederabend

Thursday) March 8, 2007
7:30 PM
Duke Divinity School
Alumni Memorial Commons Room
152 Langford Building
Duke University West Campus


Special Events

Summer 2007

Duke Summer
in Berlin
May 20-June 30
Application Deadline:
February 9
The Berlin Project
Undergraduate
Research
Opportunities
Application

Spring 2007

"Visuality & Materiality in the
Story of Tristan and Isolde"

30 March - 1 April 2007

An International and In-
terdisciplinary Conference


Faschingsfest

Friday, February 16, 2007
9:00 PM - Midnight
Broad Street Café
1116 Broad Street

Kaffeestunde

Thursdays
4:30 PM
Twinnies Cafe
Genome Science Building

Film Series

All films 7:30 PM
Perkins 101
(For full Film Series
information click here.)

Der Schuh des Manitu
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei
Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Pandoras Box
Wednesday, April 11, 2007



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