Events & Lectures
Karina Griffith - Ph.D. Candidate in Cinema Studies and Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto and Lecturer at the Berlin University of Art (UdK) „Betroffenheitskino: Cinema of Consternation.” This research examines the affect of consternation and offers it as the primary... more
On Numbers and Feelings: Antisemitism in Germany Today Antisemitism seems to be on the rise, in Germany and elsewhere. However, the scope of this rise, its reason, its agents and last but not least its meaning, as well as the political consequences to be drawn from it, are fiercefully debated. In... more
Lectures in Art History Paul Jaskot received his Ph.D. in Art History from Northwestern University. He teaches courses on architectural history, modern architecture and urban planning, and German art with a particular emphasis on National Socialist Germany. In addition to his teaching, Jaskot is... more
Vance Byrd - Grinnell College This lecture and Q&A will be held remotely on Zoom. There will be a Zoom invitation sent on the day of the event.
“The World as War: Schopenhauer's Politics” *This lecture and Q&A will be held remotely on Zoom. There will be a Zoom invitation sent on the day of the event.
Professor Hake will give a Zoom seminar based on her most recent research entitled "On Arbeitsfreude (Joy in Work): The Worker in Nazi-Era Industrial Photography." Monday, April 12th, from 7–8:15 pm, Professor Hake will give a professionalization workshop for graduate students about submitting... more
Feeding War: Nutrition, Health, and National Belonging in Germany, 1914-1924 Moderation: KONRAD H. JARAUSCH I UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of History Co-Convener: UNC-Chapel Hill, Peace, War and Defense Curriculum
This will be a professionalization workshop, geared for graduate students, on the subject of academic journal entries. There will be a Zoom invitation sent on the day of the event.
“Springs of Desire: The Disruptive Force of the Erotic and the Sturm und Drang.” Join Zoom Meeting https://duke.zoom.us/j/94775765008?pwd=dllPSDA3bWd1M0NqVEtQallraGZoZz09
“Environmental Aesthetics: Tracing a Latent Image from Early Safari Films to Contemporary Art Cinema.” You can also find a copy of the short films and clips under discussion in the paper here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14HAeO0n4iK3pzLO8WuZJnGAn8Chvv9ai?usp=sharing Join Zoom... more
FDJ-ler Make New Friends: International Youth Exchanges in the Eastern Bloc, 1972-1989 In the spirit of communist internationalism, Eastern Bloc regimes provided ample opportunities for children, teenagers, and students to travel and become acquainted with their peers from other peoples’... more
Laura Lieber, “Bodies of Knowledge: Recovering the Lost Drama of the Early Synagogue” Please join the Franklin Humanities Institute for its Friday morning series, tgiFHI! tgiFHI gives Duke faculty in the humanities, interpretative social sciences and arts the opportunity to present their current... more
Masters or Victims of the Chemical World?: The Question of Complicity in a Chemically-Minded Third Reich The presentation will examine the ways in which the gas mask served as a technological site of discipline, conformity, and complicity in the envisioned air and gas protection community of the... more
Discussion of “The Pale Death: Poison Gas and German Racial Exceptionalism, 1915-1945” In the second year of Wolf War I, the German-Jewish chemist Fritz Haber supervised the first deployment of industrialized chemical weapons against French colonial troops. The uncertain nature of the attack, both... more
Speaker(s): Jessica Ruffin - PhD student in Film & Media/Critical Theory at Berkeley "Black Sirens’ Song, or Listening for the Sirens after the Catastrophe" Paper will be circulated a week before the event Engaging Black feminist thought and Schopenhauer's ethics, this paper reimagines Adorno's... more
Speaker(s): Kira Thurman - Asst Prof in German and History at Michigan "Singing like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms" Book introduction will be circulated a week before the event. How have constructs of blackness and whiteness been created, maintained, or... more
The Sociology of Empire: German and Habsburg Theories of Multinational Statehood, 1848-1914 Over the past twenty years, historians have dramatically reevaluated the Habsburg Monarchy. Whereas scholars once characterized the Monarchy as a “prison of nations,” they now emphasize the effectiveness... more
Post-Colonialism, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust: The Achille Mbembe Case in Germany This spring has witnessed heated debate in Germany about the campaign to disinvite Achille Mbembe, the South African-based Cameroonian theorist, as the keynote speaker at a music festival. In late March, some... more
Nineteenth Century Science Goes Global During the latter half of the 19th century, international scientific collaborations of unprecedented scale, expense, and degree of organization were initiated in both the human and natural sciences. This is also the moment when the first international... more
You will be able to hear from Professor Langston about his book and learn about the investments that motivate it. https://www.versobooks.com/books/3185-dark-matter Join Zoom Meeting https://unc.zoom.us/j/95103976499
“The Glance of the Basilisk: Gender and Poetic Looking in Droste-Hülshoff” *This lecture and Q&A will be held remotely on Zoom. There will be a Zoom invitation sent on the day of the event.
The Time of the Antechamber: A History of Waiting,1500–1800 While exploring the epistemological difficulties in studying time, the philosopher Henri Bergson cautioned his readers in 1888 that, “We necessarily express ourselves by means of words and we usually think in terms of space.” This... more
“Schelling and Speculative Literary Criticism” *This lecture and Q&A will be held remotely on Zoom. There will be a Zoom invitation sent on the day of the event.
Third-World Refugees, Rights, and West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s During the 1970s and 80s, thousands of refugees from Africa, the Middle East, and Asia began seeking asylum in West Germany each year. Banned from working and often forced to live in camps, these so-called “Third-World”... more
The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression This presentation summarizes some main results of Moses’s forthcoming book The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression, which argues that genocide is not only a problem of mass death,... more
Antigone Film Series - Screening & Zoom Discussion: Germany in Autumn (Alexander Kluge/Rainer Werner Fassbinder/Edgar Reitz/Volker Schlondorff/Alf Brustellin/Hans Peter Cloos/Maximiliane Mainka/Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus/Katja Rupe/Peter Schubert/Bernhard Sinkel, 1978, 119 min, West Germany,... more
“Affordances of a New Language: Abbas Khider's Claim to Community in German for Everyone” *This lecture and Q&A will be held remotely on Zoom. The zoom link is: https://unc.zoom.us/j/92975255420 Meeting ID: 929 7525 5420
In compliance with Duke University's directive on public meetings, we are unfortunately canceling this event. For more information, please go to this website: https://coronavirus.duke.edu/**
Will be postponed until Fall semester
Speaker(s): Cecilio M. Cooper, Patrice D. Douglass, Joy A James, David Marriott, Jared Sexton, Frank B. Wilderson III, Jaye Austin Williams, Mlondolozi Zondi A one-day symposium celebrating the 10thanniversary of Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of US Antagonisms by Frank... more
In compliance with Duke University's directive on public meetings, we are unfortunately canceling this event. For more information, please go to this website: https://coronavirus.duke.edu/**
In compliance with Duke University's directive on public meetings, we are unfortunately canceling this event. For more information, please go to this website: https://coronavirus.duke.edu/**
The rebuilding of the two German states – the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) – after the end of the Second World War is often portrayed as a success story in the narratives of both former Allies, the Soviet Union in the East and the United States of... more
Third-World Refugees, Rights, and West Germany in the 1970s and 80s During the 1970s and 80s, tens of thousands of refugees from Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia began seeking asylum in West Germany each year. While scholars have examined how the West German media, state, and society... more
"Indexical Chaos and Narrative Control in Marcel Beyer's Flughunde" **This lecture and Q&A will be held remotely on Zoom. There will be a Zoom invitation sent on the day of the event.
“How does Writing for Money Affect what is Written?” Dr. Paine’s talk draws on the main themes of his book, Selling the Story: Transaction and Narrative Value in Balzac, Dostoevsky, and Zola, published by Harvard University Press in 2019. Combining close readings of works by Balzac and Dostoevsky... more
In compliance with Duke University's directive on public meetings, we are unfortunately canceling this event. For more information, please go to this website: https://coronavirus.duke.edu/**
The Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University hosts an annual Feminist Theory Workshop—a two-day event featuring keynote lectures and working seminars. The workshops are held in March at Duke University. The Feminist Theory Workshop (FTW), which began in 2007, are... more
"Adventures in Translating Contemporary Russian Fiction: Time Travel, Twisted Families, and Loving One's Authors." Lisa Hayden
Join the German Club this semester (Spring 2020) for Kaffeestunde every Monday at 5:00 pm in German Department Lounge
Scholars of the premodern face an increasingly difficult challenge in the modern academy: presenting medieval and early modern texts, materials, ideas, and histories in classrooms and institutions preoccupied to an unprecedented extent with the new and the now. This symposium will address what... more
*response for this talk with be given by Professor Ruth von Bernuth (UNC)
On Sunday, March 1 at 7:30 in the Moeser Auditorium, Zischler will recite prose, poetry and music accompanied by LaToya Lain, soprano, and Stefan Litwin, piano. They will present works by Schubert, Brahms, Wagner, Nietzsche and others. On Thursday, March 5, from 3:00 - 4:30pm in Toy Lounge, there... more
This workshop is intended for beginners as well as for seasoned Wittgenstein readers. Three philosophers and a literary critic will each read and comment on a brief passage from Philosophical investigations which has been important to their own work.
The 2020 Duke Language Symposium "Innovative Practices in Language Learning and Teaching" is sponsored by the Trinity Language Council at Duke University with the mission of bringing together scholars, students, and practitioners across languages, linguistics, and education to explore innovative... more
This semester, the Theory Reading Group will take place in the Reading Room in Dey Hall (Dey 413) from 6:30 to 8pm on the following Wednesdays: Jan. 29: Pages 1-52 Feb. 26: Pages 55-91 Mar. 25: Pages 123-172, 185-201 Apr. 22: Pages 205-226, 275-302 The GSLL Theory Reading Group offers curious... more
There will be a screening of a documentary "Afro Deutschland" by Black German director and journalist, Jana Pareigisat at the Hayti Heritage Center in Durham, 804 Old Fayetteville St, Durham, NC 27701 at 6 PM on Wednesday 2/26. There will be a Q&A lead by Professor Priscilla Layne after ... more
In the Beginning Were the Words: Technological Speaking and Thinking Before a Philosophy of Technology To scholars of Idealism and Romanticism, the years leading up to 1800 are known as a time of bold system-building and poetic experimentation. In this talk, I focus on a less-explored aspect of the... more
"Petrification of Thought: On a Mötif in Eduard Mörike's Lyric"
"Shtetl Modern: The Literary Imagination of Jewish Futures c. 1935"
"Giving Back the Gift: The Factory as Arts Patron in the People's Republic of Poland (1965-1981)"
Dr. Iwan-Michelangelo D'Aprile: Dr. D'Aprile is a literary historian and historian. He has published on the cultural history of Berlin in the 19th century as well as on the history of journalism and teaches as professor for "Cultures of the Enlightenment" at the University of Potsdam. "Theodor... more
Seminar: Reading: Hannah Arendt, “Thinking and Moral Considerations: A Lecture” 12:00-2:00pm FHI Conference Room [C107, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse Lunch provided. Pre-registration is required. Space is limited. Please contact kata.gellen@duke.edu to register and receive the reading. Lecture: “... more
“A critical examination of the invention of aesthetic education in Kant and Schiller in light of contemporary work by Jacques Ranciére and Gayatri Spivak.” Another case in point is Gayatri Chakraworty Spivak’s most recent book An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization. Despite the fact... more
A rich and engaging talk with Professor Joseph Vogl, German philosopher who has written on literature, culture and media. He is Professor of Modern German Literature, Literary, Media and Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin Response given by Professor Giovanni Zanalda, Director,... more
Moments of Enlightenment: German Jewish Interactions Symposium in Honor of Jonathan Hess One way to encounter misrepresentations and stereotypes—and to understand its meaning—is to study history and culture. This was one of the scholarly goals of the late Jonathan M. Hess, who led the Carolina... more
"Signature of the Crisis: Friedrich Schlegel's Religionspolitik" more details forthcoming!
"The Book, Cold Hard Cash, and the Mirror: Abstraction and Itinerancy in Ulrich Peltzer’s Littérature Engagée" – Response by Graduate Student Leonie Wilms
" Luther in Yiddish" more details forthcoming!
"Von diesem Augenblicke an bekam der große Wald eine Seele": Wilhelm Raabe's Else von der Tanne and the Realist Fairytale Child more details forthcoming!
Material Cuts: Scherenschnitte, Collage, and the Romantic Fragment Catriona MacLeod with a response by Peter Nisbet Romantic authors and visual artists cut, glue, stain, and recycle paper in a century that has come to be known as "das papierne Zeitalter." They generate paper cuts, collages, and ink... more
"Between Function and Fantasy: August von Kotzebue, the Jena Romantics, and the Modulation of German Dramatic Satire around 1800" more details forthcoming!
A series of events with visiting faculty from Tübingen including Dr. Jörg Robert & Dr. Astrid Dröse The lecture in German by Professor Jörg Robert is taking place on Thursday October 11 at 7:30 in Toy Lounge, and is entitled: „Abgrund der Freiheit – Mythos der Vernunft. Kant interpretiert... more
"Normativity in Early Marx" more details forthcoming!
Romantic HighsSongs of Love & Loss by Strauss, Wolf, and Marx
Speaker: Christoph Schaub - " Making Proletarian Worlds: Internationalist World Literature and Montage Aesthetics in the Republic"
There will be a seminar designed for graduate students given by both Eckart Goebel and Leif Weatherby. More information will be forthcoming. Stay tuned!
Speaker: Priscilla Layne - "Wenn eine Eisbärin spräche, könnten wir verstehen?: Animals, Fantasy, Race and Gender in Intercultural Writing"
This talk will be organized by Rob Mitchell's Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and Cultural Theory and co-sponsored by Duke German *more information forthcoming *Time subject to change
Speaker: Eric Downing - " Walter Benjamin: Child Reading"
This workshop is for faculty, graduate students and select undergraduates; designed to familiarize students with current issues in German cinema and gender studies
Dr. Weatherby is author of Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ: German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx (Fordham UP, 2016). This talk is part of his current research project on relationships between German Idealism and cybernetics. This talk is sponsored by Duke’s Center for Interdisciplinary... more
From the Book to the Screen," & Opus Alchymicum" (from: The Fire and the Tale (2017) Access to the readings is available online (password = Agamben) via Hightail. The GSLL Theory Reading Group is an informal, relaxed setting for reading and discussing theoretical texts of utility for the... more
Speaker: Christina Weiler - " Johann Gottfried Herder and Metaphors of Environmental Empathy"
Françoise Meltzer Workshop Moderated by Aleksandra Prica
This talk will focus on the destruction of Germany by the Allies, seen in heretofore unpublished photographs taken in 1945-6. The talk will pose the question, among others, of how the gaze is constructed to view these photos of disaster, and of the enemy, seventy years later. Francoise Meltzer,... more
Religion & Philosophy in Germany: 1918 - 1933 Interdisciplinary Symposium Symposium Précis * This event will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 2nd and run until 5:00 pm and begin at 9:00 am on Friday, November 3rd .
"Mysterium Burocraticum" & "Parable and Kingdom" (from: The Fire and the Tale (2017) Access to the readings is available online (password = Agamben) via Hightail. The GSLL Theory Reading Group is an informal, relaxed setting for reading and discussing theoretical texts of utility for the... more
Guest Lecturer: Rita Chin, Professor, History Department - University of Michigan "Europe and the Crisis of Multiculturalism" Rita Chin
Academic lecture and film discussion with Gregor Thuswaldner
Speaker: Kyung L. Gagum - " The Intertextuality in Fritz Lang's Metropolis and the Japanese Animation Metropolis"Century"
The GSLL Theory Group will meet three times this semester to discuss the work of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Well known throughout the humanities for his 1995 book on power and bare life entitled Homo sacer, the reading group will instead engage Agamben’s more recent essays on literary... more
Germany Making Choices : A celebration and examination of the German elections With its focus on the upcoming federal elections in Germany, our Campus Weeks (Sept. 22nd - 28th 2017) will include an election viewing party, voting booth, and a keynote lecture by Minister Helga Barth Director of the... more
Guest Lecturer: Vittorio Hösle, Paul Kimball Professor of Arts and Lecturers - Notre Dame The Ethiics of Migration: Moral principles, natural law, and politics in dealing with refugees Vittorio Hösle
Speaker: Stefani Engelstein: " The East Within Muslims, Jews and Race in the Long Nineteenth Century"
The Reading Group will consider over the course of four meetings only chapters ten through fourteen from the third and final section entitled “Totalitarianism.” (Those interested are welcome to read sections one [“Antisemitism"] and two [“Imperialism"] prior to the first meeting.) Access to the ... more
Leslie Adelson - Director of the Institute for German Cultural Studies and Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of German Studies at Cornell University. Lecture Topic: Making Time for Other Lives: Perspectives on Hope and Futurity in Narrative Form on Alexander Kluge's 'Saturday in Utopia' German... more
From the ancient Greek zṓnē for girdle or belt, “zone“ advanced over the course of the twentieth century in both English and German to become a ubiquitous signifier for geographic, socio-political, and scientific spaces. What, however, is an aesthetic zone? Is it synonymous with the text? What... more
Till Dembeck - Université du Luxembourg Topic: "Literature as Linguistic Migration" MULTILINGUALISM AS MIGRATION All languages have “immigration laws” and regulate how foreign words, phrases, or structures may be used. But how does literature relate to these laws and what can it teach us about... more
Speaker: Patrick Lang: "Radiation in the home - Between Victim and Sacrifice in the Atomic Radio Play"
Adorno Conference
The Reading Group will consider over the course of four meetings only chapters ten through fourteen from the third and final section entitled “Totalitarianism.” (Those interested are welcome to read sections one [“Antisemitism"] and two [“Imperialism"] prior to the first meeting.) Access to the... more
Speaker: Thomas Pfau: " The Image as Eschaton: Visuality and Narrative in Thomas Mann"
“Blumenberg and Adorno: Non-Conceptuality and the Bildverbot”. Respondent: Richard Langston, Associate Professor of German, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
The Reading Group will consider over the course of four meetings only chapters ten through fourteen from the third and final section entitled “Totalitarianism.” (Those interested are welcome to read sections one [“Antisemitism"] and two [“Imperialism"] prior to the first meeting.) Access to the ... more
Speaker: Aleksandra Prica: "Manipulating Time - The Aesthetics of Dealing with Vanity"
Songs and pieces for solo piano including capriccios, intermezzos, and rhapsodies. The concert is followed by a reception in the East Duke parlors that will include a discussion/Q&A with the artists. Sandra Cotton is a member of the music faculty at Duke University, where she teaches studio... more
The Reading Group will consider over the course of four meetings only chapters ten through fourteen from the third and final section entitled “Totalitarianism.” (Those interested are welcome to read sections one [“Antisemitism"] and two [“Imperialism"] prior to the first meeting.) Access to the ... more
“An Anthropological Approach to the Contemporary Significance of Rhetoric” (pp. 429-457) Access to the readings can be found here The Reading Group is an informal, relaxed setting for reading and discussing theoretical texts of utility for the study of literature, film and culture.... more
To foster the research community of local faculty and graduate students interested in Romanticism in British and German literatures (as well, potentially, as Romantic movements in other national literatures), Stefani Engelstein (German) and Rob Mitchell (English) are organizing a Romanticism... more
Speaker: Inga Pollmann: "The Forces of the Milieu: Angela Schanelee's Marseille and the Heritage of Michelangelo Antonioni"
Monday, November 14th at 5:30 PM, Fed Ex Building Rm 1009 A Conversation with Afro-German Playwright Olivia Wenzel with clips from her plays "Corn in Germany and Other Galaxies" and "We are the Universe" Olivia Wenzel was born in 1985 in Weimar. She studied Kulturwissenschaften and aesthetic praxis... more
German Campus Week November 14-18 The Four-day Program for German Campus Week: Monday, November 14th at 5:30 PM, Fed Ex Building Rm 1009 A Conversation with Afro-German Playwright Olivia Wenzel with clips from her plays "Corn in Germany and Other Galaxies" and "We are the Universe" Tuesday... more
"Homestory Deutschland," A photo exhibit about Black German history. The photos will be displayed in the Fed Ex Global Center, Rm 3200.
Niklaus Largier is the Sidney and Margaret Ancker Professor of German and Comparative Literature. He is affiliated with UC Berkeley’s Programs in Medieval Studies and Religious Studies, the Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, the Designated Emphasis in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, and... more
Moritz Schuller: "Germany and the Refugees." In 2015, Germany took in over one million refugees. How has this changed the social and political landscape of Germany and of Europe? Moritz Schuller is a political editor for the Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel Moritz Schuller
"To Bring Myth to an End” (from Work on Myth) (pp. 109-140) The Reading Group is an informal, relaxed setting for reading and discussing theoretical texts of utility for the study of literature, film and culture. Participation in the Reading Group is open to graduate students and faculty.... more
Speaker: Claire Scott: "Childless Mother: Constructing and Deconstructing Tropes of Pornography and Melodrama in Elfriede Jelinek's Lust"
Dr. Stefan Buchwald, Director of the German Information Center, will be giving a short presentation and Q&A session on the perceptions of Germany within the American imagination, based on the findings of a survey conducted by the German Information Center in 2016. Dr. Stefan Buchwald
The Theory Reading Group will reconvene next month, this time on the other side of the Rhine in order to consider three works by philosopher Hans Blumenberg. Perhaps best known for his philosophical treatise on the metaphor (Paradigms for a Metaphorology) from 1960, Blumenberg later expanded his... more
Interfacing Literary and Cultural Studies with the Cognitive Sciences, or: Re-cognizing Henry James The paper evolves from a book project that explores how literary and cultural analysis and cognition research can be mutually productive. Focusing on three central terms of cultural analysis (memory... more
Speaker: Matt Hambro - "Maxilillian's Ehrenpforte as Graphic Narrative"
The Duke University Department of German cordially invites you to the inaugural Duke in Berlin Lecture The Plasticity of Time: Morphology in the Twentieth Century In the context of his morphology, Goethe developed a technique of sequential formation that influenced several very different twentieth... more
This event will be opened by our guest speaker Elizabeth Povinelli, Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University. After her talk, local scholars from UNC and Duke will respond to her thoughts. Guest Speaker: Elizabeth Povinelli (Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology... more
"Empire, Socialism & Jews" represents an ongoing project aiming to reconceptualize the Austrian Empire's place in Central European history and to write the Empire back into the Austrian national narrative. The project tracks the interaction between the Austrian imperial legacy, socialism and... more
A conference exploring the philosophy of Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, and Émilie du Châtelet that aims to rediscover neglected works by early modern woman. The four day conference will focus on the early modern philosophers Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, and Emilie Du Châtelet and will... more
The Carolina Center for Jewish Studies is taking a leadership role in bringing together international scholars, students, and the general public to explore antisemistism’s dark past and concerning present. There is an undeniable resurgence of antisemitism in many parts of the world (including North... more
Jack Halberstam is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of five books, including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (1995), Female Masculinity (1998), In A... more
Jack Halberstam is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of five books, including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (1995), Female Masculinity (1998), In A... more
Jørgen Bruhan, Professor at the Center for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies at the Linnaeus Universtiy in Växjö, Sweden, will present his talk with the title “Intermedial analysis of narrative texts: Three dimensions” at the Old Chemistry Building at Duke University.
Funded by UNC Global and the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, and hosted at UNC-Chapel Hill by the Departments of Communications and German and Slavic, this weeklong workshop explores the theme of “risky understanding” as it applies to both the aesthetic dimension and everyday... more
Presenter: Professor Jakob Norberg, Duke. The Parlors are located on the first floor of the East Duke building, 1304 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708.
We would like to invite you to join us for the second talk of the Spring semester! Dr. Priscilla Layne, assistant professor of German, will speak on "The Future is Unknown: Redefining Blackness in Afro-German Poetry"on Monday, March 28, 3:00 PM in Donovan Lounge.
As a special edition of the Works in Progress series and as part of our Graduate Recruitment events Annegret Oehme will present her paper "Adapting Arthur".
The 2010 play Verrücktes Blut (Crazy Blood), written and directed by Nurkan Erpulat and Jens Hillje, tells the story of a high school teacher who wants to instill in her students—most of them with Migrationshintergrund — Friedrich Schiller’s humanist values of freedom and self-determination by... more
As approximately one million Syrians found their way to Europe over the past year, hundreds of thousands have so far settled on German soil, making it the largest receiving country in Europe. To the surprise of many inside and outside of that country, many—if by no means all—Germans have welcomed... more
This two day academic conference is devoted to the rich musical heritage of Hanns Eisler, one of the most interesting figures in the first half of the 20th century, composer of the first twelve-tone-film score and of the national anthem of the GDR. Speakers include Andrea Bohlman, Knud Breyer, Joy... more
If there is one dominant problematic that has emerged out of these past decades of struggle in Latin America, it is without a doubt the resurgence of the very question about the role of the state and its confrontation with various non-state or anti-state forms of politics, both violent and pacific—... more
The North Carolina German Studies Seminar Series invites you to attend Dagmar Herzog (Graduate Center, City University of New York) On Aggression: Psychoanalysis as Moral Politics in Post-Nazi Germany Sunday, 28 February 2016 5:00-7:00 pm Room 569, Hamilton Hall, UNC Campus The heyday of... more
Literature, Philosophy, Ethics with Niklas Forsberg (Uppsala) and Nora Hämäläinen (Helsinki) Thursday February 25: A Symposium on Literature and Moral Thought (open to the public, all welcome) 5 p.m., reception at 4:30 p.m. Niklas Forsberg: “Carver, Cavell and the Uncanniness of the Ordinary”... more
Presenter: Professor Inga Pollmann, UNC-Chapel Hill. The Parlors are located on the first floor of the East Duke Building, 1304 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708
Duke's English Department is hosting Christina Svendsen for a talk. Her talk is entitled “Glass Houses: Gropius, Scheerbart, Nabakov, and Modernist Notions of Transparency”.
On February 20, the second part of a two-part symposium on melodrama takes place at the Garage in Smith's Warehouse. Organized by the Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature (PAL) at Duke University, the symposium will engage with questions of melodrama and realism in different contexts.... more
Program: STEFANI ENGELSTEIN (Duke University): Multiplying Monotheisms: Ethnologizing Religion in the Late Eighteenth Century GABRIEL TROP (UNC Chapel Hill): Polarity, Indifference, Multiplicity JOHN H. SMITH (UC Irvine): Religion and Early German Romanticism: The Finite and the Infinite Sponsored... more
The goal of our spring 2016 symposium is to discuss how the Baconian method (broadly conceived) has provoked and inspired methodological debate, both in past centuries and in the present, about the nature and goals of "science." The symposium features three speakers drawn from the history of... more
Presenter: Professor Gabriel Trop, UNC-Chapel Hill. The Parlors are located on the first floor of the East Duke Buidling, 1304 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708.
Presenter: graduate student Tres Lambert. The Parlors are located on the first floor of the East Duke Building, 1304 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708
Book reading. This event is part of the Triangle German Campus Weeks celebration of 25 Years of German Unity. Made possible by the generous support of the German Embassy, Washington.
Video installation by Karina Griffity, and talk by Dr. Priscilla Layne. This event is part of the Triangle German Campus Weeks celebration of 25 Years of German Unity. Made possible by the generous support of the German Embassy, Washington.
Presenter: graduate student Steffen Kaupp. The Parlors are located on the first floor of the East Duke Building, 1304 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708.
Presenter: Graduate student Heidi Hart. The Parlors are located on the first floor of the East Duke Building on Duke's Campus, 1304 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708