Past Lectures and Conferences

The 2008 Max Kade Visiting Professor Lecture: Monday, May 23, 2008

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Steinecke
(Universität Paderborn)
"Verfasser unbekannt"—"Kaiser der Emigration." Zur Heine-Rezeption 1933-1945

Lübeck Lecture: Monday, May 5, 2008

Prof. Robert Norton
(Notre Dame)
The Ideas of 1914: Ernst Troeltsch and the First World War in Germany

Lecture: Monday, February 25, 2008

Sabine Kebir
Die Mitarbeiterinnen Bertolt Brechts

Lecture: Monday, February 11, 2008

Professor David Simo
(Yaounde University in Cameroon)
Introduction of the German Law and Legislation in the German Protectorate Cameroon

Artist Screening: Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Lecture: Friday, November 9, 2007

Professor Guy Stern
(Wayne State University and Holocaust Memorial Center, Farmington Hills, Michigan)
Fighting the Fires of Hate: the American Reaction to the Nazi Book Burning

Doctoral Colloquium: Monday, October 22, 2007

Talk: Friday, October 12, 2007

Prof. Neil G. Jacobs (Ohio State University)
Caffeinated German: Hermann Leopoldi, Vienna cabaret, and language style(s)

Lübeck Lecture: Friday, May 18, 2007

Prof. Gail Hart (University of California, Irvine)
Queenfight: Confession, Confrontation, and Coercion in Schiller's Maria Stuart

Lecture: Thursday, May 10, 2007

Prof. Isabel V. Hull (Cornell University)
Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany
Jointly sponsored by the History Department, the Mershon Center for Strategic Studies, and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.

Lecture: Monday, April 30, 2007

Prof. Wilhelm Vosskamp (Cologne)
Das Neue als Verheiβung:
Über Voraussetzungen des Wandels in der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft

Research Forum - Film Aesthetics and European Cinema: April 27-29, 2007

Prof. John Davidson (Ohio State University)
Conference homepage

Lübeck Lecture: April 16, 2007

Prof. Winfried Menninghaus (Free University of Berlin)
Functional narratives of art. Negotiating transcendental and evolutionary aesthestics

Lecture: February 9, 2007

Prof. Gerhild Scholz Williams (Washington University)
"The Global and the Local: Wonders in the News"
"The Marvellous in Medieval Literature" Lecture series of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, co-sponsored by Germanic Languages and Literatures

Lecture: February 6, 2007

Prof. John Davidson (Ohio State University)
Projecting Modernism after the Nazis

Lecture: November 16, 2006

Prof. Sheila Dickson (University of Strathclyde, Scotland)
Achim von Arnim: A German Poet in Scotland

Lecture: November 13, 2006

Dr. Brikena Ribaj (Visiting Assistant Professor, Ohio State University)
A Wife Errant: Human Desire and the Desire to Be Human in Dietrich von der Glezze's "Der Borte"

Lecture: November 6, 2006

Prof. Neil G. Jacobs (Ohio State University)
Jews, Ethnicity, and Language [COH 2006 Inaugural Lecture Series]

Film Screening: November 4, 2006

Syberberg's Parsifal
Co-ordinator: Prof. Kai Hammermeister

Orhan Pamuk: A Nobel Prize Roundtable: October 31, 2006

Participants:
Prof. Dick Davis, Persia in Pamuk;
Prof. Snjezana Buzov, The Intellectual as Foreigner;
Prof. Nina Berman, Pamuk and Germany;
Prof. Kai Hammermeister, Transcultural Aesthetics.

Lecture: October 30, 2006

Dr. Kerstin Mueller (Visiting Assistant Professor, Ohio State University)
Cultural Memory of the Nazi Past in West Germany: Erwin Sylvanus's 'Korczak and the Children'

Artist's Presentation with slides: October 13, 2006

Daniel Rode (Dresden)
Organized by Dr. Andy Spencer

Lecture: October 13, 2006

Prof. Kai Hammermeister (Ohio State University)
Shiny Boots of Leather: Perversion in Warhol's Factory

Film Screening: October 11, 2006

Rebels with a Cause: An Introduction to the Cinema of East Germany
Discussion Moderator: Prof. John Davidson

AvHAA National Meeting June 2 - 4, 2006

Alexander von Humboldt Association of America:
German-American Cross-Currents and Exchanges

Talk and Video Presentation: June 1, 2006

Alexander Stillmark (Max Kade Artist-in-Residence)
Working with Theatre Practitioners in Chile, Uruguay, and the Sudan

Theater Performances: May 24, 25, 26, 2006

Bertolt Brecht's Lesebuch für Städtebewohner [Reader for City-Dwellers]
Directed by Alexander Stillmark, Max Kade Artist-in-Residence, Spring 2006
our theater Web page is at: GLL Theater Productions

Conference: April 28, 2006

Prof. Alexander Stephan (Ohio State University) with John Brown (Georgetown University)
Public Diplomacy as a Global Phenomenon
pdf flyer

Fireside Chat: April 26, 2006

Prof. Paul Reitter (Ohio State University)
The Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred

Lecture: April 10, 2006

Prof. Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Universität des Saarlandes)
Between Ethnology and Romantic Discourse: Jesuit Accounts of South America

Film Discussion Evening
with visiting author-filmmaker Ayse Polat

Discussion: April 3, 2006

Ayse Polat (Author/Filmmaker)
A Conversation on Writing with Dr. Gregor Hens

Lecture: March 31, 2006

Prof. Wilfried Barner (University of Göttingen)
Leben und leben lassen. Lessing über Schriftsteller, Verleger und Buchhändler.

Lecture: March 2, 2006

Prof. Brendon O'Connor (Griffith University, Australia)
What is Anti-Americanism: Tendency, Prejudice or Ideology?
March 2 Lecture Flyer [DOC]

Lecture: February 22, 2006

Prof. Neil G. Jacobs (Ohio State University)
A Code of Many Colors: The Language of Jewish Cabaret

Lecture: February 20, 2006

Prof. Paul Michael Lützeler (Washington University)
The US-EU Divide: Problems and Prospects
February 20 Lecture Flyer [PDF]

Lecture: January 26, 2006

Prof. David Neal Miller (The Ohio State University)
Memories of the Present: Arthur Leipzig's New York
presented by the OSU Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities and the Columbus Museum of Art in conjunction with the "Arthur Leipzig: On Assignment" exhibition

Lecture: November 17, 2005

Prof. Nina Berman (The Ohio State University)
"Whose Islam is it? Thoughts on Lalla Essaydi's images of women and children"
presented by the OSU Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities and the Columbus Museum of Art in conjunction with the "Lalla Essaydi: Converging Territories" exhibition

Conference: November 5 - 7, 2005

Looking Backward—Looking Forward:
A Conference Commemorating the Centenary of the Birth of Dr. Shlomo Noble
Conference Web site.

Lecture: Tuesday, October 4, 2005

Prof. Gudrun Loster-Schneider (University of Mannheim)
Medea

Lecture: Monday, October 3, 2005

Prof. Jochen Vogt (University of Essen)
"Sooo hoch?" Vom allmählichen Verschwinden der "Statue genannt Liberty" (in der deutschen Literatur)

Lecture: Monday, May 19, 2005

Prof. Nina Berman (The Ohio State University)
He Who Comes Without 'May I Come In' Leaves Without 'Goodbye': On the Study of Germans in Africa

Lecture: Monday, May 16, 2005

Prof. Edith Wenzel (Germanic Institute, Aachen University of Technology)
The Fragmented Body: Wandering and Talking Genitalia in Medieval German Literature

Lecture: Monday, May 9, 2005

Prof. Theodore Ziolkowski (Princeton University)
Modes of Faith: Secular Surrogates for Lost Religious Faith

Lecture: May 3, 2005

Prof. Andrew Chesnut (University of Houston)
Faith in Marketing: Pentecostal Prosperity in Latin America's New Religious Economy
A Fundamentalism and the Media series lecture organized by Dr. John Davidson.

Lecture: April 12, 2005

Prof. Thomas P. Kasulis (The Ohio State University)
Shinto: Naturalism or Nationalism?
A Fundamentalism and the Media series lecture organized by Dr. John Davidson.

Lecture: Monday, February 28, 2005

Prof. Thomas Borgstedt (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a/M)
Nach dem Historismus: Zur deutschen Pop-Literatur der 1990-er Jahre

Lecture: February 22, 2005

Prof. Douglas A. Davis (Haverford College)
Madrasa, Satellite, Cyber: New Media and the Negotiation of Muslim Values
A Fundamentalism and the Media series lecture organized by Dr. John Davidson.

Panel: February 21, 2005

Prof. Akbar Mahdi (Ohio Wesleyan University)
and Dr. Douglas A. Davis (Haverford College)
Iran, Revolution, and the Media
A Fundamentalism and the Media series lecture organized by Dr. John Davidson.

Lecture: January 25, 2005

Prof. Linda Kintz (University of Oregon)
Commodifying the Phobic Real: Literalism, God, and Reactionary Politics
A Fundamentalism and the Media series lecture organized by Dr. John Davidson.

Lecture: January 11, 2005

Prof. R. Scott Appleby (University of Notre Dame)
Natural Allies: Fundamentalism and the Media
A Fundamentalism and the Media series lecture organized by Dr. John Davidson.

Lecture: Wednesday, November 3, 2004

Mark Taggart (Instructor, Dept. of Fine Arts Ohio Wesleyan University)
Gray Areas: Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977 Paintings and The Baader-Meinhof Group

Lecture: Tuesday, October 26, 2004

Prof. Anson Rabinbach (Princeton University)
The Reichstag Fire and the History of a Conspiracy Theory

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