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Research Colloquia and Research Events

2012-2013

The research colloquia are seminars for staff and graduate students at which papers are given by members of staff and speakers from outside Cambridge. ALL GRADUATE STUDENTS IN GERMAN ARE EXPECTED TO ATTEND THESE AND OTHER RESEARCH EVENTS.

Programme

Michaelmas Term 2012

Friday, 19 October, 5 p.m. Venue: Lord Colyton Hall, Gonville and Caius College.

The inaugural annual Ludwig Boltzmann lecture and reception:

Dr Emil Brix: 'Revisiting Fin-de-Siècle Vienna.'

 

Monday, 29 October, 5-6.30 p.m. Venue: Cripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

The inaugural annual Schröder lecture:

Prof. Nicholas Boyle: 'Goethe's Marriages.'

 

Friday, 23 November, 5 p.m. Venue: Coleridge Room, Jesus College.

Departmental research colloquium:

Prof. Peter-André Alt (FU, Berlin): 'Orders of the Imaginary: Freud's Interpretation of Dreams and the Literature of Classical Modernity.'

 

Lent Term 2013

Tuesday, 5 March, 12.45 p.m. Venue: Old Library, Sidney Sussex College
A joint event of the German Department Research Colloquium and the Modern European History Research Seminar:

Prof. Paul Nolte (FU, Berlin): ‘Beyond the Whiggish West: Towards a Contemporary History of Democracy.’

 

Easter Term 2013

Friday, 10 May, 5 p.m., Seminar Room 3, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Departmental research colloquium:

Prof. Nicola McLelland (Nottingham), ‘German Through English Eyes: How and why the British have learnt German since 1600.’

 

Friday, 17 May, 5 p.m., Senior Parlour, Magdalene College.

D. H. Green Annual Memorial Lecture:

HaJo Solms, ‘Zur Grammatik einer nichtnormalisierten Sprachstufe: Das Mittelhochdeutsche.’

 

Friday, 24 May, 5 p.m., Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

Departmental research colloquium:

Prof. Anne Fleig (FU, Berlin), ‘Vertrauen in der Postmoderne – Ethik und Ästhetik in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur.'

 

 

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Details of previous colloquia:

2011/12, 2010/11, 2008/09, 2007/08, 2006/07, 2005/06, 2004/05, 2003/04, 2002/03, 2001/02, 2000/01