Department of German and Dutch

Modern & Medieval Languages

Department of German and Dutch

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Research colloquia in the Dept of German

Research colloquia

2000 -2001

All graduate members of the German Department (teaching staff, research students, and MPhil students, especially those offering German options) are warmly invited to attend our series of regular colloquia. The aim is a relaxed discussion in which we can all learn and all contribute.

All meetings will begin at 5pm and will be held in the Parlour, First Court, Magdalene College.

Refreshments will be served.

Programme

Michaelmas Term 2000

  • Friday, 27 October
  • Professor WHT Vaughan (Birkbeck, London)
    Goethe, line and outline; poetic and pictorial form
  • Friday, 17 November
  • Professor M Swales (University College, London)
    Drama, tragedy, opera; reflections on 19th-century German theatre

Lent Term 2001

  • Friday, 9 February
  • Dr C Emden (Sidney Sussex)
    Cultural memory in Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin
  • Friday, 2 March
  • Dr M Gratzke (Gonville and Caius)
    Blut und Feu'r? Feuer und Blut. Vom Verhältnis von Kriegsdarstellungen
    zu empfindsamer Männlichkeit von der Aufklärung bis zur Gegenwart

Easter Term 2001

  • Friday, 18 May
  • Dr J Whaley (Gonville and Caius)
    Did 'Germany' exist in 1500?

 

 

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