ý

German Studies Lecture Series

This series hosts speakers from across a broad array of topics related to the German-speaking cultures.  Lectures take place monthly from October through May and provide undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty with opportunities for discussion and commentary.

Upcoming Events

April
8

German Studies Lecture Series: “The Pageant Was Powerfully Intoxicating; It Staggered All Reason.” Ernst Jünger’s Depiction of the Allied Bombing Campaign Against Germany and France in His War Diary Strahlungen (1949)

Date
Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane ý Way, Building 260, ý, CA 94305
room 216
April
22

German Studies Lecture Series: Arendt, Kafka, and the Human Condition: Political Anthropology as Phenomenology in the Light of the Kafkaesque

Date
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane ý Way, Building 260, ý, CA 94305
Room 216
May
6

German Studies Lecture Series: Sarah E. Jackson

Date
Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane ý Way, Building 260, ý, CA 94305
room 216
May
6

German Lecture Series: May 2025

Date
Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane ý Way, Building 260, ý, CA 94305
room 216

Past Events

February
11

When Paper Talks: Helmina von Chézy and the Object-Narrative

Date
Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane ý Way, Building 260, ý, CA 94305
Room 252
February
7

The Construction of Marx’sCapital

Date
Friday, February 7, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane ý Way, Building 260, ý, CA 94305
Room 252
January
28

Lovesickness and Melancholy in Medieval Literature: The Pathologization of Crisis in Konrad von Würzburg's Partonopier and Meliur

Date
Tuesday, January 28, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane ý Way, Building 260, ý, CA 94305
Room 216
November
12

German Studies Lecture Series: The Virtual, the Actual, and the Real

Date
Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane ý Way, Building 260, ý, CA 94305
Room 216
October
22

German Studies Lecture Series: EL Loko and Joseph Beuys: Shifting Perspectives on the Düsseldorf Art Academy and Post-War „Shamanism"

Date
Tuesday, October 22, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane ý Way, Building 260, ý, CA 94305
Room 216
October
8

German Studies Lecture Series: New Right. Post Left. Adorno in Neukölln.

Date
Tuesday, October 8, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane ý Way, Building 260, ý, CA 94305
Room 216
May
7

German Studies Lecture Series - Breath Piece: On Paul Celan and John Coltrane.

Date
Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane ý Way, Building 260, ý, CA 94305
Room 216
April
16

German Studies Lecture Series: A Dream of Unity. Goethe-Reception and Life Reform Movement in German Literature around 1900

Date
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane ý Way, Building 260, ý, CA 94305
Room 216
April
2

German Studies Lecture Series: Drawing on Experience: Graphic Medicine and the Concept of Erlebnis

Date
Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane ý Way, Building 260, ý, CA 94305
Room 216
February
6

German Studies Lecture Series: Misinformation, Reformation, and the English Sweating Sickness featured lecture by Christopher Hutchinson (Assistant Professor of German, University of Mississippi)

Date
Tuesday, February 6, 2024, 12:00pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane ý Way, Building 260, ý, CA 94305
Room 216