Department of German and Dutch
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Research Colloquium
2005 -2006
This is a seminar for staff and graduate students at which papers are given by members of staff and speakers from outside Cambridge. There are five meetings a year. All graduate students in German are expected to attend.
Programme
Meetings will begin at 5pm and will be held in the Dirac Room in the Fisher Building, St John's College.
Michaelmas Term 2005
- Friday, 28 October Angela Krauß (Writer in Residence, German Dept Oct-Nov 2005), 'Vom Schwerpunkt der Welt: Heinrich Kleist in Texten der Gegenwart'
- Friday, 18 November Professor Susanne Kord (University College, London), 'From Evil Eye to Poetic Eye: Witch Beliefs and Physiognomy in the Age of Enlightenment'
Lent Term 2006
- Friday, 3 February Dr Matthew Bell (King's College, London), 'New Perspectives on Melancholia in Eighteenth-century Literature'
- Friday, 3 March Dr Peter Hutchinson (Trinity Hall), 'Hidden Depths? Rhythmic Undercurrents in Some Modernist Fiction'
Easter Term 2006
- Friday, 12 May, in the Old Music Room, St John's College [NB: new date and venue] Professor John Efron (University of California, Berkeley), 'Orientalism in a German-Jewish Key'
