The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures

You are cordially invited to participate
in a series of events on

"The Public Sphere and Modern Social Imaginaries"

Memorial Symposium: Friday, February 5, 2010.

Tribute to Alexander Stephan
This symposium reflects Stephan's scholarly interests through tributes and presentations by fellow scholars, colleagues, and friends.
Symposium Schedule
1:30 p.m. Welcome
1:45 p.m. Jost Hermand, University of Wisconsin and Humboldt Universität-Berlin. "Forced out of Hitler's Reich: Five Cases of Intellectual Culture Shock in the Prairies of the Midwest."
2:50 p.m. Richard Ned Lebow, Dartmouth College, Cambridge University, and the London School of Economics. "The Old World Meets the New: German Refugee Social Scientists in America."
4:15-5:15 p.m. A Tribute to Alexander Stephan
Place: Mershon Center for International Security Studies

Lecture: February 11, 2010.

Shlomo Berger, Professor of Yiddish Culture
(University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
The Early Modern Yiddish Book and its Function in Ashkenazi Society.
Time: 4:00 pm Place: Science and Engineering Library 175 West 18th Avenue

Lecture: February 22, 2010.

Jeremy Glazier
Towards Utopia: Music in the Wake of the Wall.
Time: 3:30 pm Place: Mendenhall Lab 185

Lectures: March 3, 2010.

Focalization and Character Narration in German Narrative
Katra Byram (Ohio State)
Silke Horstkotte (Universität Leipzig/ University of Newfoundland)
Time: 4:00 pm Place: Knight House

Mark the date! March 6, 2010
Journeys

A Conference Presented by the Germanic Graduate Student Association of The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio
With Keynote Speaker Elke Frederiksen, Ph.D., University of Maryland

† Alexander Stephan (1946-2009)

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