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Lecture
Sasha Spektor
(Vanderbilt University)
From Violence to Silence: Narrative Dynamics in Dostoevsky's The Idiot
Feb. 1, noon
Furman Hall 123
Lecture
Susanne Lüdemann
(University of Chicago)
Case Studies in Literature and Psychonalysis
Feb. 23, 4:10 p. m.
Buttrick Hall 302
Lecture
Mike Hiegemann
(Vanderbilt University)
Dramaturgy: A German Affair?
March 1, 3 p. m.
Buttrick Hall 102
Graduate Student Conference
History in the Making: Auditory, Visual, and Textual Representations of Germany's Past
March 16 and 17
Buttrick Hall 206
Lecture
Rolf Goebel
(University of Alabama)
Script/Writing (Schrift) in the Age of Digital Communication:
Reflections on Benjamin, George, Schopenhauer, and Hölderlin
March 19, 4:10 p. m.
Buttrick 201
Workshop/ Luncheon
Rolf Goebel
(University of Alabama)
Script/Writing (Schrift) in the Age of Digital Communication
March 20, noon to 2 p. m.
Robert Penn Warren Center
Lecture
Elke Brüns
(Freie Universität Berlin)
Gespenster in der deutschen Literatur
April 12, 4:10 p. m.
Buttrick Hall 302
Lecture
Lutz Koepnick
(Washington University)
Glaciology of the Present:
On the Art of Contemporary Slowness
Dec. 8, 4:10 p. m.
Buttrick Hall 306
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We are mourning the death of one of our graduate students and dear friends, Ann Joseph. Ann passed away on January 7th in Noida, India. We will get together in our library, Furman Hall 123, on Wednesday 25 at 4:15 p. m. to commemorate her.
Meike Werner received the College of Arts & Science's Outstanding Graduate Mentoring Award of 2011.
Do Deutsch!, a series of events and lectures about German culture, language, and history, will be hosted by Vanderbilt University and the German department. Sponsored by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Do Deutsch! brings together Vanderbilt students and faculty, high school students and teachers of German in Middle Tennessee, and business representatives. Do Deutsch! includes a writing contest, attractive prizes and a Gala event on October 27th at The Commons. Learn more at http://vanderbilt.edu/doDeutsch
Great success on last year’s academic job market for German department’s PhD candidates and graduates: Congratulations to Betrix Brockman (Assistant Professor, Austin Peay State Univ.), Gesa Froemming (Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame), Kathrin Seidl-Gomez (Visiting Assistant Professor, College of William & Mary), and Elizabeth Weber (Assistant Director of Graduate Student Development, University of Nebraska).
Welcome to our new graduate students: Kaleigh Bangor, Lisa Beesley, Christine Richter-Nisson, and Nicole Samek.
Barbara Hahn's six-volume edition of Rahel: Buch des Andenkens für ihre Freunde" (in conjunction with the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung and the Wüstenrot Stiftung, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2011) was recently introduced at the book fair in Leipzig, Germany.
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