Department of German and Dutch
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Research Colloquium
2006 -2007
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, except for the first, take place in the Nihon Room, Pembroke College.
Michaelmas Term 2006
- Friday, 27 October This meeting will be held in the Boys Smith Room, St John's College. Dr Joachim Whaley; (Gonville and Caius), 'A German Ideology? National and confessional identities on the eve of the Thirty Years War'
- Friday, 17 November Dr Ian Cooper (Selwyn College) 'From Patmos to Little Gidding: Hölderlin, History and Hermeneutics in German and English Poetry'
Lent Term 2007
- Friday, 2 February Dr Stephen Fennell (St John's), 'The Sociological Fallacy in Modern German Thought'
- Friday, 9 March Prof. Michael Eskin (Columbia University), 'Reaching Through Time: Grünbein, Defoe, Augustine, and the Promise of Salvation'
Easter Term 2007
- Friday, 11 May Prof. Thomas Lindenberger (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam) / Robert Ide (Der Tagesspiegel), 'Geteilte Träume; Generationenkonflikte nach der Wende'. An article about this seminar appeared in Berlin's Tagesspiegel and can be read here. Download a sample from Robert Ide's book on the subject.
