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German Studies Lecture Series

This series hosts speakers from across a broad array of topics related to the German-speaking cultures.  Lectures take place monthly from October through May and provide undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty with opportunities for discussion and commentary.

Upcoming Events

April
29

German Studies Lecture Series: Arendt, Kafka, and the Human Condition: Political Anthropology as Phenomenology in the Light of the Kafkaesque

Date
Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane ۿ۴ý Way, Building 260, ۿ۴ý, CA 94305
Room 216
May
6

German Studies Lecture Series: The Problem of the Actress in Modern German Theater and Thought

Date
Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane ۿ۴ý Way, Building 260, ۿ۴ý, CA 94305
room 216

Past Events

February
6

German Studies Lecture Series: Misinformation, Reformation, and the English Sweating Sickness featured lecture by Christopher Hutchinson (Assistant Professor of German, University of Mississippi)

Date
Tuesday, February 6, 2024, 12:00pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane ۿ۴ý Way, Building 260, ۿ۴ý, CA 94305
Room 216
December
5

German Studies Lecture Series Presents "The Postwar Antisemite on Screen: Der Prozeß (The Trial) (1948) and The Third Man (1949) " featured lecture by Lisa Silverman (Professor of History and Jewish Studies -University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Date
Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane ۿ۴ý Way, Building 260, ۿ۴ý, CA 94305
room 216
November
14

German Studies Lecture Series: Rilke’s Sonette an Orpheus and How Things Are featured lecture by William Waters (German Studies and Comparative Literature, Boston University)

Date
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane ۿ۴ý Way, Building 260, ۿ۴ý, CA 94305
room 216
October
3

German Studies Lecture Series: “The Machine in the Commons - The Ballad and the Social Question on either side of 1848”

Date
Tuesday, October 3, 2023, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane ۿ۴ý Way, Building 260, ۿ۴ý, CA 94305
room 216
May
2

German Studies Lecture Series: Kate Bermingham

Date
Tuesday, May 2, 2023, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane ۿ۴ý Way, Building 260, ۿ۴ý, CA 94305
room 216
April
25

German Studies Colloquium: Tomasz Wisniewski

Date
Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane ۿ۴ý Way, Building 260, ۿ۴ý, CA 94305
room 216
April
4

German Studies Lecture Series: Benjamin Lewis Robinson

Date
Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane ۿ۴ý Way, Building 260, ۿ۴ý, CA 94305
Room 216
March
7

German Studies Lecture Series: Nikita Dhawan

Date
Tuesday, March 7, 2023, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane ۿ۴ý Way, Building 260, ۿ۴ý, CA 94305
Room 216
December
6

German Studies Lecture Series: Kristin Böse and Markus Späth

Date
Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Pigott Hall, Rm. 216.
October
25

German Studies Lecture Series: Wolf Junghanns

Date
Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 12:00pm
Location:
Pigott Hall, Bldg 260, Rm 252