Department of German and Dutch
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Research Colloquium
2008 -2009
This is a seminar 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.
Programme
Meetings will begin at 5pm and take place in the Nihon Room, Pembroke College, unless stated otherwise.
Michaelmas Term 2008
- Friday, 24 October (This meeting will be held in the Thomas Gray Room at Pembroke.) Prof. Michael Cowan (McGill University, Canada): 'Rhythm, Advertising and the Filmic Avant-Garde in Weimar: Guido Seeber and Julius Pinschewer's Kipho Film (1925).'
- Friday, 21 November Dr Andrew Plowman (Liverpool): 'Deserters from the Bundeswehr on Page and on Screen: The Shifting Meanings of an Act between Desertion from the Wehrmacht and Conscientious Objection.'
Lent Term 2009
- Friday, 13 February [Please note change of date (originally scheduled for 6 Feb) and venue: this will take place in the Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke] Prof. Udo Friedrich (Göttingen) 'Das Paradies als kulturelles Narrativ. Variationen eines Erzählmusters im Mittelalter'
- Friday, 27 February Prof. Matías Martínez (Wuppertal): 'Fiktion und Konstruktion in Lebenserzählungen am Beispiel von Holocaust-Autobiographien'
- Friday, 13 March
N.B.This session will take place in the Thomas Gray Room
Prof. Kerwin Klein (University of California, Berkeley) 'The Modern Mountain: Alpinism, Culture and Politics, 1880-1939'
Easter Term 2008
- Friday, 8 May Dr Marion Kant (Pennsylvania): 'Moving bodies and the will to culture'
- Friday, 29 May
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE: THIS WILL NOW TAKE PLACE IN THE THOMAS GRAY ROOM AT PEMBROKE
Prof. Irmela von der Lühe (Freie Universität, Berlin): 'Lotte in Weimar: Thomas Manns Goethe zwischen Dichtung und Wahrheit'
2007/08, 2006/07, 2005/06, 2004/05, 2003/04, 2002/03, 2001/02, 2000/01
