Upcoming Events
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We'd like to congratulate our graduate students on recent successes.
Boryana Dobreva has received TWO dissertation fellowships: the Cultural Studies Fellowship and the Lawler Fellowship. This doesn't mean that Borayana will have to write two disserations, but rather that she'll have to pick between fellowships. Yvonne Franke passed her Preliminary exam. The exam is the first step along the way to the Ph.D., and we were all in agreement that Yvonne made a great leap. Elliott Bergman and Gavin Hicks impressively represented the German Department at the Graduate Expo. It was an excellent opportunity to highlight graduate work at the university and we are happy that our department was so strongly represented. Further congratulations are in order for Gavin, who received an award for one of the best presentations. Along with Boryana and Zsuzsa Horvath's presentations at national conferences, we are very happy that our grad students are working hard to represent their work and our department to a broader audience. Randall Halle Director of Graduate Studies |
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| Conference: "Interzone EU: Crossroads of Migration"
A conference addressing the impact of migration on European culture, literature, and film.
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Feb. 22: 1228 Cathedral of Learning
Feb. 23: 232 and 501 Cathdral of Learning |
Click here to visit the conference website.
For additional information contact Professor Randall Halle (rhalle@pitt.edu) or Professor Sabine von Dirke (vondirke@pitt.edu). |
| German Film Series
*February 4* Klassenfahrt (School Trip) Henry Winckler, 2002, 86 Min. IN 1709 16mm During a class outing to a Polish seaside resort, shy Ronny and a Polish youngster vie for a girl's attention. Their rivalry comes to a tragic end in a test of courage. Winckler’s intuitive feeling for compulsive film images and realism without generalizations or stereotypes make this a must see film |
Screenings take place in Langley A221 at 7:00 on Mondays. Langley is on Tennyson across from the Holiday Inn. They are free and open to the public. | For more information
Contact - Professor Randall Halle rhalle@pitt.edu or 412.648.2614 |
| German Film Series
28 January 2008 Schwarzfahrer (Black Rider) Schwarzfahrer is an oscar-winning comic film set in a tram car with various passengers, including a pensioner, housewives, silly Turkish youths, and an old lady sitting next to a young black man. She annoys him with several racist comments until he decides to enact revenge. Ghettokids Two young brothers and their family come to Germany from Greece and live in Munich on the fringe of society, committing petty thefts and other crimes. A new teacher in their school is pressured into leaving, but gives it all a second chance. Later when one of the boys dies in an accident, she helps his brother and family with the assistance of the head of a social center. The film ultimately shows the difficulty that foreign and poor citizens in Germany encounter when attempting to coexist or assimilate into society. |
Screenings take place in Langley A221 at 7:00 on Mondays. Langley is on Tennyson across from the Holiday Inn. They are free and open to the public. |
For more information
Contact - Professor Randall Halle rhalle@pitt.edu or 412.648.2614 |
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University of Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre & Theater rampe Stuttgart Present Outside Inn A new play by Andreas Jungwith Produced and directed by Melanie Dreyer Produced and translated by Gabriele Schafer Offering 2 performances in German and 4 performances in English Outside Inn is an international theatre collaboration between Stuttgart-based theater rampe and the University of Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre to foster artistic partnership and understanding across cultures. |
In Pittsburgh September 14-16, 2008
University of Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre's Charity Randall Theatre For information about performances in Stuttgart , please contact Melanie Dreyer. |
For more information, contact the following.
Melanie Dreyer at
412-512-4446 or
madreyer@pitt.edu
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Past Events (To see Photographs from past events, click here)
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University of Pittsburgh Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures Work in Progress Series Please join us for the last presentation this term by Zsuzsa Horvath, Ph.D. Candidate Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjare and the History of Reading. This monthly informal forum allows faculty and students to present and receive feedback on research they are currently conducting. |
Friday, April 13, 2007
1:00 to 2:30 PM 1401C Cathedral of Learning |
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| Auf der Schwelle zur Oper Vorbehalt des Möglichen in Ernst Jandls Sprechoper Aus der Fremde Jörg Wesche (Harvard/Augsburg) |
Thursday,
April 5, 2007 2:30 PM to 3:45 PM Room 142 Cathedral of Learning |
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International Conference
After the Avant-garde: European Experiments with the Moving Image University of Pittsburgh www.pitt.edu/~rhalle/avantgarde This event is free and open to the public. The Conference is generously supported by a grant from the University of Pittsburgh’s Faculty and Research Scholarship Program, the European Union Center of Excellence, the Department of German, and the Film Studies Program. The organizers wish to thank Dean N. John Cooper, Associate Dean Nicole Constable, Professor Lucy Fischer, Professor Clark Muenzer, and Professor Alberta Sbragia for their engagement. Additionally we appreciate the support of Juliane Wanckel and Lee Grice at the Goethe Institute, New York. |
Friday and Saturday
March 30-31, 2007 |
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University of Pittsburgh
Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures Work in Progress Series "Rilkes "Neue Gedichte" zwischen Tradition und Moderne. By Professor Klaus Post This monthly informal forum allows faculty and students to present and receive feedback on research they are currently conducting. Please note that all slots for Spring Term 2007 have been filled. For further information, please contact |
March 28, 2007
Wednesday 1:00 to 2:15 PM 1401 Cathedral of Learning |
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University of Pittsburgh
Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures Work in Progress Series Balkan Ghosts, Migrant Stories. Eastern European Identities Reconfigured. by Boryana Dobreva, Ph.D. candidate This monthly informal forum allows faculty and students to present and receive feedback on research they are currently conducting. Please note that all slots for Spring Term 2007 have been filled. |
Friday,
February 23, 2007 1:00 to 2:30 PM Room 1401C - Cathedral of Learning |
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Experimental, Underground, Revolutionary Avant-garde Films from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland Week 6 Alexander Kluge Brutalität in Stein. Die Ewigkeit von Gestern//Brutality in Stone (1960, 12 Min) Porträt einer Bewährung//Portrait of a Probation (1964, 11 Min) Die Patriotin//The Patriotic Woman (1979, 121 Min) The organizers of this series would like to thank Dean N. John Cooper at the University of Pittsburgh and Juliane Wanckel at the Goethe Institute in New York. |
February 7, 2007
Wednesday 7:30 - Starting at Lawrence Hall 205 3942 Forbes Avenue All screenings are free and open to the public. All screenings will be film screenings unless otherwise noted. Many of these films are rare and hard to find. All films will have subtitles or be accessible to non-German speaking audiences. |
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| Experimental, Underground, Revolutionary Avant-garde Films from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
Week 5 Straub/Huillet 1/31 Jean-Marie Straub and Daniel Huillet Machorka Muff (1963 18min) Die Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach (1967, 93min) The organizers of this series would like to thank Dean N. John Cooper at the University of Pittsburgh and Juliane Wanckel at the Goethe Institute in New York. |
January 31, 2007
Wednesday Lawrence Hall 205 3942 Forbes Avenue All screenings are free and open to the public. All screenings will be film screenings unless otherwise noted. Many of these films are rare and hard to find. All films will have subtitles or be accessible to non-German speaking audiences. |
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Week 4 Experimental/Structural/Material Film Experimental Films of the 60s and 70s Vlado Kristl „Madeleine – Madeleine" (1963, 11 min) Lutz Mommartz „Selbstschüsse" (1967 ) Werner Nekes and Dore O. „Jüm – Jüm" (1970, 11mins) Adolf Winkelmann „Adolf Winkelmann, Kassel, 9.12.1967, 11.45h" (1970, 8mins) Wim Wenders „Same Player shoots again" (1968, 12 mins) Rolf Wiest „Polly" (1968, 11 min) Dore O. „Kaskara" (1974 21 min) Bastian Clevé „Empor" (1978 10 min) Bastian Clevé „Nachtwache" (1976 10 min) Wilhelm and Birgit Hein „Rohfilm" (1968 20 min) The organizers of this series would like to thank Dean N. John Cooper at the University of Pittsburgh and Juliane Wanckel at the Goethe Institute in New York. |
January 24, 2007
Wednesday Lawrence Hall 205 3942 Forbes Avenue All screenings are free and open to the public. All screenings will be film screenings unless otherwise noted. Many of these films are rare and hard to find. All films will have subtitles or be accessible to non-German speaking audiences. |
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Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures WORK IN PROGRESS SERIES Dynamic Places in Fontane's "Irrungen Wirrungen" by Professor John Lyon This monthly informal forum allows faculty and students to present and receive feedback on research they are currently conducting. |
January 19, 2007
Friday 1:00 - 2:00 PM 1401 Cathedral of Learning |
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| Special Public Lecture
University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine The United State Holocaust Museum and the C. F. Reynolds Medical History Society are co-sponsoring a special lecture on Thursday, December 7, 2006 on Nazi medicine. The speaker will be Dr. Susan Bachrach, one of the chief curators at the Holocaust Museum. The title of her talk with be “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race.” This lecture is open to public and there is no admission fee. |
December 7, 2006
Thursday Scaife Hall Lecture Room #6 |
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Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures WORK IN PROGRESS SERIES Please join us for the last presentation in the Fall Term 2007-1, which will be in English Exercising “Bildung” through Narrative Escapes of Becoming in Hölderlin, Schlegel, and Novalis. by Kevin Bilicke, PhD Candidate This monthly informal forum allows faculty and students to present and receive feedback on research they are currently conducting. |
December 4, 2006
Monday 1:00 - 2:30 PM 1401 Cathedral of Learning |
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| The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and
The Jewish Studies Program Present Seventh Annual Commemoration of Kristallnacht |
November 13, 2006
Monday 4:30 PM 363 Cathedral of Learning |
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WORK IN PROGRESS SERIES Please join us for the first presentation, which will be in English Visual Alterity: Typicality and the Moving Image By Professor Randall Halle, Klaus W. Jonas Chair in German Film and Cultural Studies. This monthly informal forum allows faculty and students to present and receive feedback on research they are currently conducting. |
October 30, 2006
Monday 1:00 to 2:30 PM Room 1401 CL |
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PUBLIC LECTURE
University of Pittsburgh
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Women's Study Program By Professor Michelle Mattson, Rhodes College Abstract: |
Monday,
October 2, 2006 4:30 to 6:00 PM Room 363 Cathedral of Learning |
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RECEPTION FOR THE GERMAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Saturday, September 30, 2006 Hosted by the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, and Duquesne University Please join us on Saturday evening, September 30th, from 6:30-8:00 p.m. in the Cloisters of the Frick Fine Arts building, University of Pittsburgh campus, to enjoy wine, hors d'oeuvres, and conversation with your colleagues from the German Studies Association and their Pittsburgh hosts. Sponsors: Carnegie Mellon University: Departments of History, Modern Languages Duquesne University: Department of Modern Languages and Literatures |
Saturday,
September 30, 2006 6:30-8:00 PM University of Pittsburgh Frick Fine Arts Building - Cloisters |
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| PUBLIC LECTURE
Dr. Sabine Hake University of Texas at Austin Professor and Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture "Entombing the Third Reich: On "Downfall" and Historicism." Sponsored by Department of German, Film Studies Program, and Graduate Program for Cultural Studies |
April 17, 2006 | |
| CELEBRATE THE WINNERS OF THE TENTH ANNUAL GERMAN ESSAY CONTEST
Enjoy Food and Refreshments at the Award Ceremony Category 1 Ger. 1: Category II Ger. 2: Category III Ger. 3: Category IV Ger. 4:
Category V (1000-Level) Category VI (Seminar/Advanced Level 3 Years +) Category VII: (English Language Category): |
April 12, 2006 Room 1401 CL 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM |
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| Dr. Anthony Krupp
University of Miami Public Lecture “Damned Babies? Leibniz vs. the Jansenists” Abstract: Arguing against the fideism of Jansenists like Blaise Pascal and Pierre Nicole, who asserted that the demands of faith always trump those of reason, Leibniz held that faith and reason are compatible, and that if reason is shocked by a religious doctrine, then that doctrine must be false. His showcase example of such a false doctrine is that of the damnation of innocents, specifically virtuous pagans and unbaptized infants. His talk will argue that Leibniz articulates a new, anti-Augustinian theory of original sin in order to reject infant damnation and that an important source of Leibniz's arguments is to be found in two chapters of Pierre Bayle's Response to the Questions of a Provincial, in which Bayle reviews a debate between Pierre Jurieu, a Calvinist Huguenot, and Pierre Nicole, a Jansenist. Finally, Dr. Krupp will suggest that, according to Leibniz's explicit and implicit claims, the souls of unbaptized innocents go to heaven, rather than hell or limbo. The result, of course, is that Leibniz becomes unorthodox. Fifty years before Rousseau, Leibniz concludes that human nature is originally good. Certainly, Rousseau said this more openly and louder, but the message is present in Theodicy for the careful reader. Sponsored by: The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, The Center for Western European Studies, The Program in Cultural Studies, The Department of French and Italian, The Department of Religion, and The Department of Philosophy |
Wednesday, January 11, 2006 4:30 PM Room 363 Cathedral of Learning |
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EIGHTH ANNUAL COMMEMORATION
KRISTALLNACHT Remembering Crystal Night November 9, 1938 With Musical Selections by Klezmer Clarinetist Susanne Ortner Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, Jewish Studies Program |
Wednesday,
November 9, 2005 5:00 PM Israel Heritage Room 337 Cathedral of Learning |
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| Professor David Coury
University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Public Lecture Jihad vs. McWorld: Globalization and the Concept of National Literature Abstract: Global Studies and globalization have gained currency in recent years in both the Humanities and the Social Sciences, resulting in numerous essays and critical studies on the effects of globalization on contemporary society. Often though these terms have been used somewhat uncritically or even synonymously with international or even multicultural issues resulting in a conflation of discourses that often blurs our understanding of the global forces affecting social change. With the consolidation and unification of the European Union, the old demarcations—both physical and cultural—of its constituent nation-states have begun to fall, leading to debates and further questioning of the idea of national identities. Globalization has thus brought not only increased non-EU immigration, but a rise in intra-EU mobility and a blurring of cultural differences. Economically, neo-liberal capitalism has imposed additional supra-national cultural influences that many fear will only further diminish notions of distinct national identities. This lecture will focus on the ramifications of such social change on literature and German literature in particular. These societal changes coupled with the process of deterritorialization begs the question: what exactly constitutes a national literature in the 21st century? In the past decade, Germany has seen a flood of new works by young writers, whose works often exhibit closer affinities with other European, Anglo-American and “Western” pop literature than with the works of their German literary predecessors. Such texts reflect a larger societal shift in understanding cultural identity, whereby identity is no longer rooted in a sense of place. In our global world, borderless, transnational identities have come to alter both a sense of self and the traditional literary categories once based on “national” constructs. Sponsored by Department of German, English, Program in Cultural Studies, and Center for West European Studies |
Thursday,
November 3, 2005 4:30 - 5:30 PM |
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| Professor Patrick Imbert
Canada Research Chair at the University of Ottawa / Titulaire de la Chaire de recherche de l'Université d’Ottawa, Canada : Enjeux sociaux et culturel dans une société du savoir Public Lecture The Girardian Appropriation Mimesis, the Platonic Mimesis, and Bhabha’s Mimicry: The Passion for Controlling Representation Sponsored by CWES/EU Center, Department of Germanica Languages & Literatures, and in cooperation with the City for the Cultures of Peace |
Wednesday,
November 2, 2005 4:00 PM Room 149 Cathedral of Learning (French Nationality Room) |
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| Dr. Klaus Vogelgsang
University of Augsburg Film/Medieval Specialist Public Lecture Dr. Vagelgsang's lecture will explore Fritz Lang's ground-breaking cinematic treatment of the ancient Norse cycle. Please join us for light refreshments and further discussion in 1409 CL Sponsored by the Department of German and Film Studies Program |
Wednesday,
October 12, 2005 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM Room 119 Cathedral of Learning Please join us for light refreshments and further discussion in 1409 CL |
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| ACADEMIC/SOCIAL ORIENTATION TO AUGSBURG, GERMANY
Everything you always wanted to know about Augsburg but were afraid to ask... Sponsored by the Study Abroad Office and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures |
Monday,
October 10, 2005 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Room 1409 Cathedral of Learning Pizza Provided |
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| Professor Ulrike Landfester
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland PUBLIC LECTURE Skin Cartography: Tattooing and Literature The colors used in tattooing are not put onto, but under the skin, thereby marking a space in-between that reflects the liminal status of beauty. Professor Landfester’s lecture will examine three tattoo-narratives (Jürg Federspiel’s “Geography of Pleasure,” Roy Bradbury’s “Illustrated Man,” and more recently, Barbara Hodgson’s “The Tattooed Map”) in order to analyze the evolution of beauty as a process of aesthetic codification in terms of Homi Bhabha’s ideas on liminality. Sponsored by Department of German, Department of English, Program in Cultural Studies, and Center for West European Studies |
Monday,
September 26, 2005 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM Room 306 Cathedral of Learning |
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| Study Abroad in German Marketplace
Not just for German Majors Come "shop" for a study abroad program! Free German Food |
Tuesday,
September 20, 2005 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Dining Room A William Pitt Union |
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| Please join us for Kaffeeklatsch
All German majors, minors, certificate seekers, members of the German Club, other interested students and faculty, as well as CAS Advisors are all cordially invited. The Faculty and graduate student instructors of the German Department would like to see you, meet you, and tell you about our academic courses, study abroad opportunities, and extracurricular activities planned for this academic year. If possible, please rsvp if you are able to attend at ewp@pitt.edu. We hope to see you there! |
Friday,
September 9, 2005 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM Room 1401 Cathedral of Learning |
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| Graduation Brunch
Co-sponsored by the Departments of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Classics |
May 1, 2005 | |
| Ninth Annual Essay Contest Award Ceremony and Reception
Winners of the Ninth Annual German Essay Contest 2005 are the following.
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Friday, April 8, 2005 | |
| Thomas Lesch Schmidt
Public Lecture Tay-Sachs: Allegedly Jewish Genetic Disease Thomas Lesch Schmidt is a double talent: he is a physician whose work focuses on the history of medicine; he is also a noted composer and recipient of the "Franz Liszt Award for Musical Composition 2004" from the prestigious Pro Europa: European Cultural Foundation (Germany). His opera The Golem in Bayreuth (1999) was performed by the Burgtheater/Akademietheater in Vienna, Austria. For more information see: http://www.schott-musik.de/autoren/KomponistenAZ/show,13940.html Sponsored by the City for the Cultures of Peace in cooperation with the University of Pittsburgh: the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Cultural Studies Program, the Jewish Studies Program, CWES and EU Center in UCIS. |
Wednesday, April 6, 2005
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Room 130 Cathedral of Learning |
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| Professor Helmut Graser
Universität Augsburg Workshop on " Rechtshreibreform" Eine Präsentation der Hauptpunkte der Reform und ihrer äußerst kontroversen Rezeption, die sie besonders in den Medien, aber auch seitens der Fachgermanistik gefunden hat. Auf die Rolle der Politik wird ebenfalls eingegangen. Anschließend wird dann diskutiert. Warum scheint eine allgemeine Verunsicherung eingetreten zu sein, die statt zu einer Fehlerverminderung, dem erklärten Ziel der Rechtschreibreform, zu einer explosionsartigen Häufung von Rechtschreib-und Zeichensetzungsfehlern geführt hat? |
Friday, March 18, 2005
4:00 PM Room 313 Cathedral of Learning Reception to follow in Room 1401 CL |
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| Professor Clark S. Muenzer, Chair
University of Pittsburgh, German Department Public Lecture At the Edge of Chaos: Goethe and the Question of the Global Discussions of Goethe’s globalism have focused almost exclusively on the idea of Weltliteratur. But this approach tells only part of a larger story. By re-framing today’s globalization debates with a detour through Goethe, I hope to add a pinch of German arcana to the “cauldron” of Anglo-American Kulturpolitik. In what sense did the globe, or the world, become a unit of intellectual analysis in Goethe’s “interdisciplinary” writing projects, I will asking. Are there distinctive ways in which Goethe experienced and represented globality? And how did his sense of the local, or “German,” enable him to articulate the question of the global? Finally, what connection might these questions have with the science of complexity? Can the Goethean global be aligned with inquiries of recent years that have challenged scientific reductionism across such diverse fields as economics, biology, ecology, chemistry, neuroscience, and physics? |
Thursday, March 17, 2005
4:30 PM Carnegie Mellon University Room: Doherty Hall 2315 |
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| Ninth Annual Essay Contest:
All undergraduate students of German are invited to submit essays. Entries may be submitted directly to Dr. Elizabeth Ernst. Certificates, tee-shirts, and a variety of prizes are presented to the winners during our annual awards ceremony at the end of the Spring Semester. |
Deadline for Submission
Wednesday, March 2, 2005 |
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| Discussion Panel: Translating Success in Foreign Language into a Career
The German Department hosted a career panel for undergraduate students, with alumnae from various foreign language departments. Each representative spoke briefly on their experiences beyond the university and how studying a foreign language has helped their professional development. Panelists included: Lorraine Denman (Nonprofit Coordinator), Staff Sargeant Tanya M. Smith (U.S. Army Language Advocate), Shannon Baranauska (Business/Information Technology), and Mandee Williams (Library Research) Sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures as part of the ACTFL Year of Languages and financed by a generous contribution from the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Dr. Regina Schulte-Ladbeck |
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
6:30 PM 1228 Cathedral of Learning Light refreshments will be served! |
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Friday, February 11, 2005
3:00 PM Frick Fine Arts Building, Room 202 Reception to Follow |
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| The History Department Book Symposia Series
Gregor Thum's Die fremde Stadt: Breslau 1945 Commentary by: John Czaplicka, Harvard University, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies Donna Gabaccia, University of Pittsburgh, Department of History Kai Gutschow, Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture This symposium is made possible by the generous support of the Dean’s Office of the School of Arts and Sciences, The University Center for International Studies, DAAD, the Center for West European Studies, The Center for Russian and East European Studies, University Honors College, The Department of History, The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. |
Friday, January 28, 2005
3:00 PM 2500 Posvar Hall |
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| Professor Claire J. Kramsch
University of California, Berkley Public Lecture Constructing the Multilingual Subject in the Language Classroom Sponosored by the German Department, Center for West European Studies, Department of French and Italian, and Department of Modern Language, Carnegie Mellon University |
Friday, January 14, 2005
2:00 PM 244B Cathedral of Learning |
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| Professor Claire J. Kramsch
University of California, Berkley Public Lecture Culture and Identity in Language Learning: Insights from Language Memoirs Sponosored by the German Department, Center for West European Studies, Department of French and Italian, and Department of Modern Language, Carnegie Mellon University |
Thursday, January 13, 2005
4:30 PM 4130 Posvar Hall Reception to follow |
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| Saul Ostrow, Dean of Visual Arts and Technologies Environment Cleveland Institute of Art
Public Lecture Rehearsing Revolution and Life: Walter Benjamin's and the End of the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Sponsored by the German Department, Cultural Studies, and Spanish Department |
Thursday, November 18, 2004
5:30 PM Schenley Park Visitor Center, Schenley Drive (Located across from Phipps Conservatory) |
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| Professor Gerd Gemünden (Dartmouth Univesity)
Public Lecture "Amidst the Ruins of Berlin: The Exile Cinema of Billy Wilder" Sponsored by the German Department and the Film Studies Program |
Friday, November 12, 2004
3:30 PM 501 Cathedral of Learning Reception to follow |
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| A FILM SCREENING
Billy Wilder's "A Foreign Affair" Sponsored by the German Department and the Film Studies Program Suggested viewing for Public Lecture, which will be held on Friday, November 12. 2004 |
Monday, November 8, 2004
6:30 PM 105 David Lawrence Hall |
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| Seventh Annual Commemoration of Kristallnacht: Mr. Martin Hamburger, ESQ. - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Kristallnacht in Augsburg, 1938" Sponsored by Department of Languages & Literatures and Jewish Studies Program |
Monday, November 8, 2004
4:00 PM 1500 W. W. Posvar Hall |
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| Dr. Christina von Braun
Professor at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany Public Lecture Gender and Media. The Alphabet and the Symbolic Gender Order Sponsored by the German Department, City for the Cultures of Peace, UCIS, and Cultureal Studies |
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
4:15 PM 113 Cathedral of Learning |
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| Open House/Informational Meeting: Pitt in Augsburg | Wednesday, Sept. 29 and Friday, October 1st, 2004
Both meetings are at 4:00 p.m. in 827 WPU |
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| WELCOME BACK
Reception for all German majors, minors, certificate seekers, members of the German Club, other interested students and faculty, as well as CAS Advisors |
Friday,
September 24, 2004 2:00 - 4:00 PM William Pitt Union Dining Room B |
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| The German Department Spring Reception and Award Ceremony for the Eighth Annual German Essay Contest
Outstanding seniors will be recognized. The names of the winning essay contest participants will be announced at 2:30. Light refreshments will be served. Please come and join us to celebrate excellence in the undergraduate German program. |
Thursday, April 8, 2004
2 to 4 PM Pitt Club |
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| Professor S. Brockmann (Carnegie Mellon University):
Nuremberg, the Nazis & German Cultural Traditions Sponsored by the German Department |
Wednesday, April 7, 2004
12:00 PM 1401 Cathedral of Learning |
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| Eighth Annual Essay Contest:
All undergraduate students of German are invited to submit essays. Entries may be submitted directly to Dr. Elizabeth Ernst. Certificates, tee-shirts, and a variety of prizes are presented to the winners during our annual awards ceremony at the end of the Spring Semester. |
Final Deadline: Wednesday, February 25 | |
| Dr. Henry Ostberg,
Co-Director of the Augsburg Sprachenzentrum: Die Universitat Augsburgh Sponsored by the German Department |
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
3:00 PM Robert Henderson Media Center Ground Floor, Cathedral of Learning |
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| Professor Steve Zohn:
Telemann's Wit: Burlesque, Parody, and Satire in the Ouverture-Suites Sponsored by the German Department The Department of Music The PAA and The City for the Cultures of Peace |
Professor Steve Zohn:
Telemann's Wit: Burlesque, Parody, and Satire in the Ouverture-Suites Sponsored by the German Department The Department of Music The PAA and The City for the Cultures of Peace |
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| Professor Hans J. Rindisbacher:
Triumph and Mourning: Aspects of the Soviet Military Monuments in Berlin Sponsored by the German Department and the Slavic Department |
Thursday, March 4, 2004
2:00 PM Thaw 104 Reception to follow in 1409 Cathedral of Learning |
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| Professor G. Mecchia:
Sexual Difference in the Oeuvre of Simone de Beauvoir & Marguerite Duras Sponsored by the Department of French & Italian |
Thursday, February 19, 2004
12:00 PM 1401 Cathedral of Learning |
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| PUBLIC LECTURE
Professor Angela Borchert (University of Western Ontario): Reading Weimar's Landscape Garden: Heterotopia & Literature Sponsored by Germanic Department, History of Art & Architecture Department, Center for West European Studies, and Program in Cultural Studies |
Thursday, February 5, 2004
4:00 to 5:00 PM Frick Fine Arts Room 202 Reception will follow in the Cloister |
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| Professor Sabine von Dirke:
Hip Hop Made in Germany. Transatlantic Transfers of Popular Music Culture. (With Music Examples) Sponsored by the German Department |
Wednesday, January
12:00 PM 1401 Cathedral of Learning |
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Professor Helena Goscilo:
Building Socialism & the Ideal Physique: The Multi-Purpose Male Body in Soviet & Post-Soviet Art Sponsored by the Departments of French & Italian, German, and Slavic Literatures |
Wednesday, December 3, 2003
12:00 PM Posvar Hall 1M56 |
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| Sixth Annual Commemoration of Kristallnacht: Rabbi Walther Jacob, Ph.D. "Kristallnacht in Augsburg, 1938"
Sponsored by Department of Languages & Literatures and Jewish Studies Program |
Monday, November 10, 2003 |
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Professor Sabine Hake |
Wednesday, October 29, 2003 12:00 to 1:00 1401 Cathedral of Learning - Front Room |
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Zertifikat Deutsch Training |
Saturday, October 18th, G-13 Cathedral of Learning | |
| Welcome Back Reception Annual reception for majors, inors, certificate students and those interested in German |
Wednesday, Oct. 1 The Pitt Club |
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| Ms. Karin Gündisch, an award-winning German Children’s book author, visited our campus to read from and discuss her books with both undergraduate and graduate students at a luncheon and in the German 1000 classroom. | September 18, 2003 | |
| Martin Kley: "Kalter Blick and Kinoglaz - Concepts of Vision in Weimar Germany and the Russian Avant-garde" Part of a Departmental Lecture Series organized by Professor Sabine Hake |
Thursday, April 17, 1402 Cathedral of Learning | |
| Janet Ward (University of Colorado, Boulder): "Designing the World City: Visions of Power in Modern Berlin" Part of a Departmental Lecture Series organized by Professor Sabine Hake |
Tuesday, April 8, G24 Cathedral of Learning | |
| Beverly Harris-Schenz: “Violence in German Schools and Children’s Literature” Part of a Departmental Lecture Series organized by Professor Sabine Hake |
Thursday, March 27, 1402 Cathedral of Learning | |
| James K. Lyon (Brigham Young University): "Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger: Dialogues between a Holocaust Poet and a German Thinker" Part of a Departmental Lecture Series organized by Professor Sabine Hake |
Monday, March 17, 142 Cathedral of Learning | |
| Departmental Faschingsparty Costumes, Fun and Food, Sponsored by German and Slavic Departments |
Friday, February 28, Cathedral of Learning | |
| Seventh Annual Essay Contest: All undergraduate students of German are invited to submit essays. Entries may be submitted directly to Dr. Elizabeth Ernst. Certificates, tee-shirts, and a variety of prizes are presented to the winners during our annual awards ceremony at the end of the Spring Semester. | Final Deadline: February 28 | |
| The Threepenny Opera by Kurt Weill: Undergraduate and graduate students from the German Department attend Brew House's Production of the Dreigroschenoper | Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 8:00 p.m., South Side | |
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Zsuzsa Horvath: "Paradigm Shift in Literary Works" Part of a Departmental Lecture Series organized by Professor Sabine Hake |
Thursday, February 20, 2003, 12:00-1:00 p.m., 1402 Cathedral of Learning | |
| John Lyon: "Nur in den tiefen Narben meiner Wunden eine Heimath finden": Eros, Trauma, and the Self in Brentano's "Godwi" Part of a Departmental Lecture Series organized by Professor Sabine Hake |
Thursday, January 23, 2003, 12:00-1:00 p.m., 1402 Cathedral of Learning | |
| Annual Holiday Party
Sponsored by the German and Slavic Departments |
Friday, December 13, 2002, 5:00p.m. until ???, 1401 Cathedral of Learning | |
| Stephen Brockmann (Carnegie Mellon University): "Cultural Criticism and the Two German Unifications" Part of a Departmental Lecture Series organized by Professor Sabine Hake |
Wednesday, December 11, 2002 12:00-1:00 p.m., 1402 Cathedral of Learning | |
| Film: Der Bettelprinz Part of a series of "Kinder- und Jugendliteratur Filme" organized by Professor Beverly Harris-Schenz |
Wednesday, November 20, 2002, 7-9 p.m. Frick Fine Arts Room 202 | |
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llya Vinitsky: "Das Heimweh by Jung-Stilling as a Russian National Epic" Part of a Departmental Lecture Series organized by Professor Sabine Hake |
Wednesday, November 20, 2002, 12:00-1:00 p.m., 1402 Cathedral of Learning | |
| Film: Anne Frank
Part of a series of "Kinder- und Jugendliteratur Filme" organized by Professor Beverly Harris-Schenz |
Wednesday, November 6, 2002, 7-9 p.m. Frick Fine Arts Room 202 | |
| Film: Das Sams - Der Film
Part of a series of "Kinder- und Jugendliteratur Filme" organized by Professor Beverly Harris-Schenz |
Wednesday, October 30, 2002, 7-9 p.m. Frick Fine Arts Room 202 | |
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Clark Muenzer: "Borders and Monuments: Goethe's Reconstruction of the World as Knowledge" Part of a Departmental Lecture Series organized by Professor Sabine Hake |
Wednesday, October 30, 2002, 12:00-1:00 p.m., 1402 Cathedral of Learning | |
Film: Emil und die Detektive Part of a series of "Kinder- und Jugendliteratur Filme" organized by Professor Beverly Harris-Schenz |
Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 7-9 p.m. Frick Fine Arts Room 202 | |
Film: Pünktchen und Anton Part of a series of "Kinder- und Jugendliteratur Filme" organized by Professor Beverly Harris-Schenz |
Wednesday, October 2, 2002, 7-9 p.m. Frick Fine Arts Room 202 | |
| Annual Welcome Reception | Friday, Sept. 20, 2002, 11:30 a.m. -1:30 p.m. 1401 Cathedral of Learning | |
Film: Tischlein deck dich Part of a series of "Kinder- und Jugendliteratur Filme" organized by Professor Beverly Harris-Schenz |
Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2002, 7-9 p.m. Frick Fine Arts Room 202 | |
| Annual Awards Ceremony: Awards from the Annual Essay Contest, Scholarships, and Recognition of Graduating Seniors | April, 2001. 14th Floor, Cathedral of Learning | |
| Commemoration of "Kristallnacht": Fourth annual commemoration sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, Department of Religious Studies, and the Jewish Studies Program. | Tuesday, November 6, 2001. 239 Cathedral of Learning | |
| German Club Dinner: Join the German Club for good food and great company at Max's Allegheny Tavern. | Thursday, October 25th, Max's Allegheny Tavern | |
| Poetry Reading: Dr. Caroline Rusch (Ph.D., University of Augsburg) will read from her poetry. | Monday, October 8, 2001. 1401 Cathedral of Learning |