sdn20's list


2010-02-08 17:00: The Doors of Deception: Opening the Present in German Cinema 1945-49 (Danny Wolpert (Trinity Hall, Cambridge))

2010-02-11 15:00: "Feind ist, wer anders denkt"/ "The Dissenter is the Enemy" (Britta Foerester (Cambridge))

2010-02-19 17:00: Der andere Dienst am Kunstwerk.  Über die Verbindung von Menschen  und nicht-menschlichen Wesen in  Sacher-Masochs „Venus im Pelz”  und Jensens „Gradiva” (Friedrich Balke)

2010-02-19 20:00: Stammtisch XXL (Speaker to be confirmed ())

2010-02-22 17:00: Joint Russgrad/GGRS seminar on Königsberg / Kaliningrad (Edward Saunders (University of Cambridge) & Morag MacIvor (University of Cambridge))

2010-03-05 17:00: Philologie als Friedrich Schlegels  Begriff der „Poesie” (Karl Heinz Bohrer)

2010-03-05 17:00: Schönheit. Eine kleine begriffliche Reise (Martin Seel)

2010-03-08 17:00: 'At Least Sculpture is not Causing us any Problems': Ernst Barlach, Arno Breker and the Inconsistencies of Nazi Art Policy (Nausikaä El-Mecky (Cambridge))

2010-04-26 17:00: "Struggle of Identities: Arthur Schnitzler's and Jakob Wassermann's Concepts of German-Jewish Identity" (Max Haberich, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge)

2010-04-30 17:00: Von der Stabilität zur Unsicherheit.  Reflexionen über das gegenwärtige  Deutschland (Paul Nolte)

2010-05-10 17:00: Goethe's later works: art, memory, identity (Charlotte Lee, Gonville & Caius, Cambridge)

2010-05-20 14:00: Seminar with Helmut Lethen ( (University of Cambridge))

2010-05-24 17:00: 'Catholicity and Consensus: A Swiss Solution' (Joel Love, Westcott House)

2010-06-07 17:00: Mystery / Surprise End of Term Screening (Danny Wolpert (Trinity Hall, Cambridge))

2010-10-11 17:00: Crossing the Atlantic (Again): The transformation of the tragic mulatta from kitsch to literature in nineteenth-century German writing (Christopher M. Geissler (Jesus College/MML (German & Dutch)))

2010-10-25 17:00: Laughter as a response to the Holocaust: an affront or a necessity?  Reality and Illusion in the Theresienstadt concentration camp (Roy Kift, Playwright)

2010-11-02 17:00: Safe to Remember: Germany's Cinema of Retrospection (Dr Mattias Frey, University of Kent)

2010-11-08 17:00: Decoding Traces. The narrative power of traces in the European Realism. (Talk in German) (Uta Schurmann (FU  Berlin &  University of Cambridge))

2010-11-15 17:00: Eva Figes' "Journey to Nowhere" (Silvia Pellicer-Ortín (University of Zaragoza, Department of English and German Philology))

2010-11-25 17:00: Reading by Kai Weyand (Kai Weyand)

2010-11-29 17:00: "DU HAST DICH ALS ECHTER KÄMPFER, ALS TAPFERER HITLER-JUNGE, ALS BRAVER SPARTANER ERWIESEN!": The importance of Sparta in national-socialist elite education (a case study) (Helen Roche, Classics, University of Cambridge)

2011-01-24 17:00: Vehicles in Christian Petzold’s "Wolfsburg" (Stephan Hilpert)

2011-02-21 17:00: On the function of Georg von Wergenthin as ‘reflector figure’ in Arthur Schnitzler’s novel Der Weg ins Freie (Marie Kolkenbrock)

2011-02-28 17:00: Christoph Schlingensief's Aesthetics of Transcendence (Talk in German) (Lore Knapp (Freie Universität Berlin))

2011-03-07 17:00: Wissenspoetik und Rephilologisierung – zur theoretischen Diskussion von Literatur und Wissen (Dr. Johanna Bohley (Freie Universität Berlin))

2011-05-09 17:00: Girardian "mimetic desire" and imitation in Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus" (Kasia Szymanska (Cambridge, EuroLit MPhil))

2011-05-23 17:00: Travel Writing around 1800 and the Problem of Knowledge (Johannes Görbert (FU Berlin))

2011-06-06 17:00: 'Libido': Eroticism and Sexuality in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna (Dr. Egbert Klautke (UCL))

2011-10-10 17:00: Goethe's last poetry: the creative interaction of past and present (Charlotte Lee ( Gonville & Caius, Cambridge))

2011-10-24 17:00: Arthur Schnitzler's "Professor Bernhardi" - An Austrian Dreyfus-Affair on the Stage (Max Haberich ( Clare Hall, University of Cambridge))

2011-11-07 17:00: Poetic Machines: On Art and Artificial Creativity in Literature (Ulrike Küchler (Freie Universität Berlin))

2011-11-17 17:00: The Sonderweg narrative and political thought after the Second World War, 1945-1955 (Clara Maier, Clare College, Cambridge)

2011-11-21 17:00: Challenging the Literary Canon? Authors of the "Second Migrant Generation" in Austria (Silke Schwaiger, University of Southampton)

2012-01-23 17:00: Why the Chinese Love and Hate Elfriede Jelinek (Arnhilt Hoefle (IGRS London))

2012-02-08 17:00: "Partei, Partei, wer sollte sie nicht nehmen": The Poetical Debate between Ferdinand Freiligrath and Georg Herwegh (Jan Vermeiren, University of Essex)

2012-02-20 17:00: Colonizing the Future, Insuring the Individual: Utopian Narrative in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna (Dr Clemens Peck (University of Salzburg))

2012-03-02 17:00: D H Green Memorial Lecture: 'Zwischen Geschichte und Mythos: Die Wartburg als Literaturort vom Hochmittelalter bis ins 19. Jahrhundert' (Prof. Jens Haustein (Jena))

2012-03-05 17:00: Literary Cynicism in Nietzsche (Daniel S. Mayfield (FU Berlin))

2012-03-08 17:30: Reading from "Gegen die Welt" (Jan Brandt)

2012-04-30 17:00: Symbolic timing: the temporal effect of the motif and the symbol in Thomas Mann’s "Buddenbrooks" and "Der Zauberberg" (Erica Wickerson (University of Cambridge))

2012-05-14 17:00: Physiognomy in the Realist Novel (Eike Kronshage (Freie Universität Berlin))

2012-05-21 16:30: Der Sturz. Honeckers Ende. (Eric Friedler (NDR))

2012-05-28 17:00: The Now always comes After: Post-Traumatic Bodies and Creaturely Subjectivities in Ilse Aichinger’s 'Der Gefesselte' (Alexandra Hills (UCL))

2012-10-29 17:00: Goethe's Marriages (Prof. Nicholas Boyle, Department of German and Dutch, University of Cambridge)

2013-04-29 17:00: The Question of Memory in Christa Wolf's "Stadt der Engel" and Marica Bodrozic's "Kirschholz und alte Gefühle" (Iga Nowicz, University of Cambridge)

2013-05-13 17:00: German Sexology and the Art of Literary Evidence (Dr. Anna Katharina Schaffner (University of Kent))

2013-05-17 17:00: D.H. Green Annual Memorial Lecture: 'Zur Grammatik einer nichtnormalisierten Sprachstufe: Das Mittelhochdeutsche' (Prof. Hans-Joachim Solms (Halle-Wittenberg))

2013-05-27 17:00: Diskurse über Armut bei deutschen Vormärz-Autorinnen 1830-1850 (Jana Vukovic (FU Berlin))

2013-10-14 17:00: The city stripped bare by her histories, even: 1948 Berlin film (Daniel Wolpert (University of Cambridge))

2013-10-25 17:00: Annual Schroeder Lecture: "You have to change your life"? The Ethics of Reading and German Studies (Prof. Sarah Colvin (Warwick), Schroeder Professor elect)

2013-10-28 17:00: Issues of Gender, Publicity and the late-Victorian Urban Landscape in George Du Maurier's Trilby (1894) (Judit Minczinger (Freie Universität Berlin))

2013-11-04 17:00: Economizing Desire: The Sibling (in) Law (Professor Stefani Engelstein (University of Missouri))

2013-12-02 16:30: Windows & Black Boxes – Oscillating Transparency in a Calm Surveillance Society (Dr Kristin Veel (University of Copenhagen))

2014-01-27 17:00: Reading Kafka Cognitively (Emily T. Troscianko, St John’s College, Oxford)

2014-02-10 17:00: '"Wir wissen, was wir wissen": Re-thinking the Metropolitan Subject in Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz.' (Robert Craig, Trinity Hall, Cambridge)

2014-02-14 16:30: Visiting Lecturer: Patrick Bahners from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Patrick Bahners, New York Correspondent of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

2014-02-24 17:00:  'Navid Kermani’s Poetic Hermeneutics of Religious Experience or; How the Failed Attempt to find a Hermeneutics of Religious Experiences Shaped Kermani’s Literature.' (Johannes Kleine, Freie Universität, Berlin)

2014-02-24 17:00: Jan Wagner Bilingual Poetry Reading (Jan Wagner)

2014-02-28 17:00: Second Annual Ludwig Boltzmann Lecture: 'War and Words. Krausian "Biographic" in The Last Days of Mankind' (Dr Deborah Holmes, University of Kent)

2014-03-10 17:00: '"Der undiskutierbare Krieg." The Origins of Ernst Bloch's Theory of History in the Experience of the First World War.' (Catherine Moir, Magdalene College, Cambridge)

2014-05-05 17:00: Reading by Undine Zimmer - in German (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-05-09 16:30: Vom Musentempel zur Schule der Empathie? Das Museum als eine Institution des Erinnerns und Gedenkens (Dr Silke Arnold-de Simine)

2014-05-20 17:00: Professor Peter Strohschneider, President of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, will give the 2014 D.H. Green Lecture (Professor Peter Strohschneider, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

2014-05-22 18:00: How did Racism and Anti-Semitism become Mental Illnesses? — From Freud’s Vienna to Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (Prof Sander L. Gilman (Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University))

2014-05-27 17:00: Gerhard Polt Visiting - Special Presentation (Gerhard Polt - Bavarian actor, writer and comedian)

2014-10-13 17:00: Metaphors for Language and Creative Writing in Herta Müller (Pavlo Shopin, Clare College, Cambridge)

2014-10-24 17:30: Inaudible Stories. German Prisoner Narratives After 1945 (Professor Sarah Colvin, Schröder Professor, Department of German and Dutch)

2014-10-28 17:00: Melancholy Journeys and Postmemory in the Films of Ruth Beckermann (Dr. Katya Krylova, University of Nottingham)

2014-11-07 17:15: 'Beyond our wildest ambitions': German women's organisations 1914-18 (Dr Ingrid Sharp)

2014-11-13 17:15: Thomas Meinecke, German writer and DJ, reads from his works (Thomas Meinecke, writer and DJ)

2014-11-17 17:00: The Sonderweg narrative and political thought after the Second World War, 1945-1955 (Clara Maier, Clare College, Cambridge)

2014-11-21 16:30: The Visualisation and Ritualisation of Football under National Socialism (Dr Markwart Herzog, Director of Schwabenakademie Irsee)

2014-11-24 17:00: Literature and Experience (Dr. Michael Minden, Jesus College, Cambridge)

2015-01-19 17:00: The concept of 'Autofiktionalität' in Olga Grjasnowa's novel Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt (Denise Henschel, FU Berlin)

2015-01-30 09:00: 'Kolleg Europa' Day Symposium (Organized by Allison Jones, Churchill College, Cambridge)

2015-02-16 17:00: Salvation History in the Kaiserchronik? (Christoph Pretzer, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge)

2015-03-02 17:00: 'Terrorism' in post-war Germany  – Myths, Facts and Methodological Traps (Dr Katharina Karcher, Jesus College, Cambridge)

2015-03-13 17:00: From the Inside: The Story of the Berlin Republic, told by its Prisoners (Professor Sarah Colvin, Schröder Professor, Department of German and Dutch)

2015-06-15 17:00: Home and homelessness in 19th-century prose (Dr Charlotte Lee, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge)

2015-10-05 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-10-21 16:30: Schröder Lecture - Killing Hitler: German Resistance Before and After the July Plot (Professor Randall Hansen)