Department of German and Dutch

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Research Colloquium

2007 -2008

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 take place in the Nihon Room, Pembroke College, unless stated otherwise.

Michaelmas Term 2007

• Friday, 26 October

  Prof Wolfram Pyta (Stuttgart): 'Die diskursive Kraft der Literatur: Die literarische Deutung des Ersten Weltkriegs und die daraus erwachsenen politischen Folgerungen'

• Friday, 16 November

  Dr Heike Sahm (Cologne) and Prof Victor Millet (Santiago de Compostela): 'Heliand, Beowulf und die Deutsche Heldenepik'

Lent Term 2008

• Friday, 25 January

  Prof Michael Jennings (Princeton): 'The Mausoleum of Youth: Photography, Experience, and Nihilism in Benjamin's Berlin Childhood around 1900'

• Friday, 8 February

  Prof Ottmar Ette (Potsdam): 'Alexander von Humboldt: Die Freiheit des Reisens und die Entfaltung einer weltweiten Wissenschaft'

• Friday, 29 February

  Anthony Fothergill (Exeter): 'Reading Joseph Conrad: Melancholy in the Shadow of the Swastika'

Easter Term 2008

• Friday, 2 May [This colloquium will take place in St John's College, in the Boys Smith Room]

  Professor Tony Kaes (Berkeley): 'Return of the Undead: War and Trauma in Murnau's Nosferatu'

• Friday, 9 May

  Dr Hubertus Knabe (Berlin): Title tba

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Details of previous colloquia:
2006/07, 2005/06, 2004/05, 2003/04, 2002/03, 2001/02, 2000/01