Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

326 Raised Faculty Building.

Monday 05 October 2015, 17:00-18:30

Home and homelessness in 19th-century prose

Dr Charlotte Lee, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.

326 Raised Faculty Building.

Monday 15 June 2015, 17:00-18:30

From the Inside: The Story of the Berlin Republic, told by its Prisoners

Professor Sarah Colvin, Schröder Professor, Department of German and Dutch.

326 Raised Faculty Building.

Friday 13 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

'Terrorism' in post-war Germany – Myths, Facts and Methodological Traps

Dr Katharina Karcher, Jesus College, Cambridge.

326 Raised Faculty Building.

Monday 02 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

Salvation History in the Kaiserchronik?

Christoph Pretzer, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

326 Raised Faculty Building.

Monday 16 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

'Kolleg Europa' Day Symposium

Organized by Allison Jones, Churchill College, Cambridge.

326 Raised Faculty Building.

Friday 30 January 2015, 09:00-15:30

The concept of 'Autofiktionalität' in Olga Grjasnowa's novel Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt

Denise Henschel, FU Berlin.

326 Raised Faculty Building.

Monday 19 January 2015, 17:00-18:30

Literature and Experience

Dr. Michael Minden, Jesus College, Cambridge.

326 Raised Faculty Building.

Monday 24 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

The Sonderweg narrative and political thought after the Second World War, 1945-1955

Clara Maier, Clare College, Cambridge.

326 Raised Faculty Building.

Monday 17 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Melancholy Journeys and Postmemory in the Films of Ruth Beckermann

Dr. Katya Krylova, University of Nottingham.

326 Raised Faculty Building.

Tuesday 28 October 2014, 17:00-18:30

Metaphors for Language and Creative Writing in Herta Müller

Pavlo Shopin, Clare College, Cambridge.

326 Raised Faculty Building.

Monday 13 October 2014, 17:00-18:30

'"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.

326 Raised Faculty Building.

Monday 10 March 2014, 17:00-18:30

'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.

326 Raised Faculty Building.

Monday 24 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

'"Wir wissen, was wir wissen": Re-thinking the Metropolitan Subject in Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz.'

Robert Craig, Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

326 Raised Faculty Building.

Monday 10 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Reading Kafka Cognitively

Emily T. Troscianko, St John’s College, Oxford.

326 Raised Faculty Building.

Monday 27 January 2014, 17:00-18:30

Windows & Black Boxes – Oscillating Transparency in a Calm Surveillance Society

Dr Kristin Veel (University of Copenhagen).

326 Raised Faculty Building.

Monday 02 December 2013, 16:30-18:00

Economizing Desire: The Sibling (in) Law

Professor Stefani Engelstein (University of Missouri).

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 04 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Issues of Gender, Publicity and the late-Victorian Urban Landscape in George Du Maurier's Trilby (1894)

Judit Minczinger (Freie Universität Berlin).

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 28 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

The city stripped bare by her histories, even: 1948 Berlin film

Daniel Wolpert (University of Cambridge).

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 14 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

Diskurse über Armut bei deutschen Vormärz-Autorinnen 1830-1850

Jana Vukovic (FU Berlin).

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 27 May 2013, 17:00-18:30

German Sexology and the Art of Literary Evidence

Dr. Anna Katharina Schaffner (University of Kent).

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 13 May 2013, 17:00-18:30

The Question of Memory in Christa Wolf's "Stadt der Engel" and Marica Bodrozic's "Kirschholz und alte Gefühle"

Iga Nowicz, University of Cambridge.

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 29 April 2013, 17:00-18:30

The Now always comes After: Post-Traumatic Bodies and Creaturely Subjectivities in Ilse Aichinger’s 'Der Gefesselte'

Alexandra Hills (UCL).

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 28 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Physiognomy in the Realist Novel

Eike Kronshage (Freie Universität Berlin).

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 14 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Symbolic timing: the temporal effect of the motif and the symbol in Thomas Mann’s "Buddenbrooks" and "Der Zauberberg"

Erica Wickerson (University of Cambridge).

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 30 April 2012, 17:00-18:30

Literary Cynicism in Nietzsche

Daniel S. Mayfield (FU Berlin).

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 05 March 2012, 17:00-18:30

Colonizing the Future, Insuring the Individual: Utopian Narrative in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

Dr Clemens Peck (University of Salzburg).

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 20 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

"Partei, Partei, wer sollte sie nicht nehmen": The Poetical Debate between Ferdinand Freiligrath and Georg Herwegh

Jan Vermeiren, University of Essex.

Lecturers' Common Room, Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Why the Chinese Love and Hate Elfriede Jelinek

Arnhilt Hoefle (IGRS London).

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 23 January 2012, 17:00-18:30

Challenging the Literary Canon? Authors of the "Second Migrant Generation" in Austria

Silke Schwaiger, University of Southampton.

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 21 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

The Sonderweg narrative and political thought after the Second World War, 1945-1955

Clara Maier, Clare College, Cambridge.

326 Raised Faculty Building.

Thursday 17 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Poetic Machines: On Art and Artificial Creativity in Literature

Ulrike Küchler (Freie Universität Berlin).

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 07 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Arthur Schnitzler's "Professor Bernhardi" - An Austrian Dreyfus-Affair on the Stage

Max Haberich ( Clare Hall, University of Cambridge).

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 24 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

Goethe's last poetry: the creative interaction of past and present

Charlotte Lee ( Gonville & Caius, Cambridge).

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 10 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

'Libido': Eroticism and Sexuality in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna

Dr. Egbert Klautke (UCL).

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 06 June 2011, 17:00-18:30

Travel Writing around 1800 and the Problem of Knowledge

Johannes Görbert (FU Berlin).

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 23 May 2011, 17:00-18:30

Girardian "mimetic desire" and imitation in Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus"

Kasia Szymanska (Cambridge, EuroLit MPhil).

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 09 May 2011, 17:00-18:30

Wissenspoetik und Rephilologisierung – zur theoretischen Diskussion von Literatur und Wissen

Dr. Johanna Bohley (Freie Universität Berlin).

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 07 March 2011, 17:00-18:30

Christoph Schlingensief's Aesthetics of Transcendence (Talk in German)

Lore Knapp (Freie Universität Berlin).

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 28 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

On the function of Georg von Wergenthin as ‘reflector figure’ in Arthur Schnitzler’s novel Der Weg ins Freie

Marie Kolkenbrock.

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 21 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

Vehicles in Christian Petzold’s "Wolfsburg"

Stephan Hilpert.

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 24 January 2011, 17:00-18:30

"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.

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 29 November 2010, 17:00-18:30

Eva Figes' "Journey to Nowhere"

Silvia Pellicer-Ortín (University of Zaragoza, Department of English and German Philology).

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 15 November 2010, 17:00-18:30

Decoding Traces. The narrative power of traces in the European Realism. (Talk in German)

Uta Schurmann (FU Berlin & University of Cambridge).

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 08 November 2010, 17:00-18:30

Safe to Remember: Germany's Cinema of Retrospection

Note the Change of Date! - Tuesday

Dr Mattias Frey, University of Kent.

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Tuesday 02 November 2010, 17:00-18:30

Laughter as a response to the Holocaust: an affront or a necessity? Reality and Illusion in the Theresienstadt concentration camp

Roy Kift, Playwright.

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 25 October 2010, 17:00-18:30

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)).

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 11 October 2010, 17:00-18:30

Mystery / Surprise End of Term Screening

Danny Wolpert (Trinity Hall, Cambridge).

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 07 June 2010, 17:00-19:30

'Catholicity and Consensus: A Swiss Solution'

Joel Love, Westcott House.

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 24 May 2010, 17:00-18:30

Seminar with Helmut Lethen

(University of Cambridge).

Emmanuel College, Camden House Drawing Room.

Thursday 20 May 2010, 14:00-15:30

Goethe's later works: art, memory, identity

Charlotte Lee, Gonville & Caius, Cambridge.

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 10 May 2010, 17:00-18:30

Von der Stabilität zur Unsicherheit. Reflexionen über das gegenwärtige Deutschland

Germanistik heute: Schröder Anniversary Lecture Series

Paul Nolte.

Lecture Block, Room 1, Sidgwick Site.

Friday 30 April 2010, 17:00-19:30

"Struggle of Identities: Arthur Schnitzler's and Jakob Wassermann's Concepts of German-Jewish Identity"

Max Haberich, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.

Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 26 April 2010, 17:00-18:30

'At Least Sculpture is not Causing us any Problems': Ernst Barlach, Arno Breker and the Inconsistencies of Nazi Art Policy

Nausikaä El-Mecky (Cambridge).

Lecturer's Common Rm, 106, 1st Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 08 March 2010, 17:00-18:30

Philologie als Friedrich Schlegels Begriff der „Poesie”

Germanistik heute: Schröder Anniversary Lecture Series

Karl Heinz Bohrer.

Lecture Block, Room 1, Sidgwick Site.

Friday 05 March 2010, 17:00-19:30

Schönheit. Eine kleine begriffliche Reise

Germanistik heute: Schröder Anniversary Lecture Series

Martin Seel.

Lecture Block, Room 1, Sidgwick Site.

Friday 05 March 2010, 17:00-19:30

Joint Russgrad/GGRS seminar on Königsberg / Kaliningrad

Joint Session with the Russian Graduate Seminar Group

Edward Saunders (University of Cambridge) & Morag MacIvor (University of Cambridge).

Lecturer's Common Rm, 106, 1st Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 22 February 2010, 17:00-18:30

Stammtisch XXL

University of Cambridge German Society

Speaker to be confirmed ().

Lounge, The Graduate Union.

Friday 19 February 2010, 20:00-22:30

Der andere Dienst am Kunstwerk. Über die Verbindung von Menschen und nicht-menschlichen Wesen in Sacher-Masochs „Venus im Pelz” und Jensens „Gradiva”

Germanistik heute: Schröder Anniversary Lecture Series

Friedrich Balke.

Lecture Block, Room 1, Sidgwick Site.

Friday 19 February 2010, 17:00-19:30

"Feind ist, wer anders denkt"/ "The Dissenter is the Enemy"

a guided private tour of the German Embassy's exhibition

Britta Foerester (Cambridge).

German Embassy, 22 Belgrave Square,. London.

Thursday 11 February 2010, 15:00-22:30

The Doors of Deception: Opening the Present in German Cinema 1945-49

Danny Wolpert (Trinity Hall, Cambridge).

Lecturer's Common Rm, 106, 1st Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

Monday 08 February 2010, 17:00-18:30