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Friday, October 10
"Has the Spirit of Berlin Survived in US-German Relations after the Cold War?"
"60 Years after the Berlin Airlift: German American Friendship Today"
2008 marks the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Berlin Airlift. In
commemoration of this event the German Consulate General in San
Francisco and the Department of German and Scandinavian are
co-sponsoring a panel discussion about the airlift and
German-American relations since then. This event is free and open
to the public.
Panelists:
Karsten Tietz, German Consul for Cultural Affairs, San Francisco:
"The Legacy of the Berlin Airlift and German American Friendship Today"
Professor George Sheridan, History: "Crisis Decision-Making and Cold
War Origins in the Berlin Airlift"
Professor Craig Parsons, Political Science: "Has the Spirit of Berlin
Survived in US-German Relations after the Cold War?"
Moderator: Professor Susan C. Anderson, German and Scandinavian 3:00 p.m. (175 Lillis Hall)
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German Rock Party
There will a DJ and refreshments. There will also be a screening of Metropolis.
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM (Performance Hall, Living and Learning Center)
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Friday, October 24
Prof. Darren Ilett of Michigan State University will be giving a lecture entitled "Soldiers' Daughters Don't Cry". Professor Ilett's lecture deals with authoritarianism, gender, and sexuality in one of the first sound films in Germany, entitled Girls in Uniform. The talk is free and open to the public.
12:00 PM (240 MCK).
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Friday, October 31
Deadline to apply for admission to GER 409 "Teaching Fun with German: Internship Program" for the Winter and Spring quarters.
Click here to learn more about this program.
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Friday, Saturday February 6-7
Kinder-Lernen-Deutsch workshop entitled “Teaching Methods: Songs, Games, and Total Physical Response (TPR) for Instruction at the Elementary and Middle School” on Friday, February 6, 4:00pm to 6:00pm and Saturday, February 7, 9:00am to noon. The guest speaker will be Heidi Walz, who is a Netzwerk Trainer for the Goethe Institute and teaches elementary-level German at a Montessori school in Portland. This workshop is supported by AATG and the Goethe Institute, San Francisco. For further information contact: Dorothee Ostmeier (Ostmeier@uoregon.edu)
Location: Friendly 106.
Wednesday, February 11
Graduate Student Workshop
Featuring German MA students:
Trish Bronte: Space and Place in Christa Wolf's Kassandra.
Verena Kick: Psychoanalytische Untersuchung expressionistischer Filme - Phallambulisten und phallische Apparate in Friedrich Murnaus Nosferatu und Robert Wienes Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (A Psychoanalytic Approach to Expressionist Film - Phallambulists and Phallic Apparatus in Friedrich Murnau's Nosferatu and Robert Wiene's Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari).
Nicholas Reynolds: Losing the Negative: The Difference between Analytic and Continental Philosophy.
3:30pm to 5:30pm (Friendly 109)
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Thursday, Friday February 26-27
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Elaborations as Music, on Stage, in Film
Annual Oregon Bach Festival German Studies Symposium with the support of the School of Music and the Department of English
Wednesday February 25, 2009
7:00 PM Keithan Lounge, Pacific 122, University of Oregon
There will be a showing of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the 1935 film by Max Reinhardt, with music by Felix Mendelssohn as re-orchestrated by Erich Korngold.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Collier House, University of Oregon
Collier House, Living Room
2:15 – 3:00
Kenneth S. Calhoon (German and Scandinavian, and
Comparative Literature, University of Oregon)
Gesture and the Rhythm of Imitative Action: Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)"
3:00-3:15
Discussion
Collier House, Room 103
3:15 - 4:00
Martine Kai Green (Dramaturg and Visiting Instructor, Kenyon College)
Fantasy Encroaching on Reality: Sex, Spectacle, and their
Disjunctions in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2008
A Midsummer Night's Dream
4:00-4:15
Discussion
Friday, February 27, 2009
Collier House, Living Room, University of Oregon
2:00-3:45
Marshall Brown (Comparative Literature, University of Washington)
Music and Fantasy; or My Favorite Note in Mendelssohn's
Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream
3:45-4:00
Discussion
4:00-4:45
Ken Roht (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Co-composer)
Music for the Modern Shakespearean Stage
4:45-5:00
Discussion
Coffee and light refreshments will be served each afternoon.
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Thursday, April 9
Austrian writer Lilian Faschinger will read (in English translation) from her short-story collection Woman with Three Aeroplanes . This reading is free and open to the public. It is co-sponsored by the Department of German and Scandinavian, the German Studies Committee, the Oregon Humanities Center, the Creative Writing Program, the Center for the Study of Women in Society and the Women's and Gender Studies Program. For more information, contact Susan Anderson at susana@uoregon.edu.
2:00 PM (240A McKenzie Hall)
This event is co-sponsored by the Austrian Cultural Forum (NYC), the Oregon Humanities Center, the Creative Writing Program, the Center for the Study of Women in Society, and the Women's and Gender Studies Program.
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Friday, April 10
The Department of German and Scandinavian and the German Studies Committee invite you to attend a reading in German by Austrian writer Lilian Faschinger. Dr. Faschinger will read from her latest novels, Paarweise (By Pairs) and Stadt der Verlierer (City of Losers). Her works focus, often satirically, on prejudices against women, minorities, and foreigners in contemporary Austrian and European society. For more information on Dr. Faschinger, please see this: http://www.dickinson.edu/glossen/heft6/faschinger.html. This event is free and open to the public. It is co-sponsored by the Oregon Humanities Center, the Creative Writing Program, the Center for the Study of Women in Society, and the Women's and Gender Studies Program. For more information, contact Susan Anderson at susana@uoregon.edu.
2:00 PM. (Lillis 275).
This event is co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Oregon Humanities Center.
Thursday,FridayApril 30-May 1
Tuesday, May 19
Space, Shape, and
Memory: Susi Rosenberg's Sculptures, Drawings, Photos
A
conversation with Jewish Austrian/German sculptor Susi Rosenberg (Munich), whose gift of a sculpture created while she was an artist
in residence at the UO, "PATH II," is being installed on campus
during Spring Term. Born in Germany and raised in Germany and Israel,
Rosenberg's work often directly addresses questions of remembering
and forgetting--sometimes associated with the Holocaust but often
researching rhythms of material and life. Moderator: Richard Stein,
English. Conversation Partner: Kenny Helphand, Landscape
Architecture. Co-sponsored by the Department of Art, the Harold
Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies, and the Department of
German and Scandinavian. This event is free and open to the public.
For information, contact Susan Anderson at susana@uoregon.edu
7:30 PM (115 Lawrence Hall)
Thursday, June 4
The Tiny Toy Burly-Q Extravaganza:
a Burlesque Opera
GER 356 - offered by the Departments of German & Scandinavian, Comparative Literature, and the Folkore Program - presents San Francisco based avant-garde performance art troupe Team Lexington in their post-modern rendition of Snow White.
Told through multiple media including puppetry, video art and olfactory manipulation, Team Lexington presents the Burlesque Opera of a princess born into a life of turmoil. Snow White
dances along a journey through the forest. There she discovers the lair of the Seven thieves and ingratiates herself to these beautiful but dangerous Thugs. While trying to escape the ambitious whims of Dr. the Duchess and her bumbling Valkyries, she meets many characters including a young prince secretly longing to be a woman and a Giant teddy bear. Will Snow White live to see another day? Come find out at the Tiny Toy Burly-Q Extravaganza!
12:00 - 1:20 PM (240C McKenzie Hall)
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Friday, June 5
Spring Celebration
We will honor scholarship recipients, listen to readings and musical performances, watch video highlights from the past academic year, and catch up on what our department members have been doing over coffee, cake, and cold beverages.
In the Great Room at The Koinonia Center, 1414 Kincaid Street. Starts at 3:00 PM.
Saturday, June 13
Foreign Languages and Comparative Literature Ceremony:
The Department of German and Scandinavian graduation ceremony is at 3:00pm on Saturday, June 13, 2009 , in the Student Recreation Center. Doors open for guests at 2:30pm, and students are asked to be in line by 2:45pm. The ceremony is scheduled to last for an hour and half. A reception with complimentary refreshments will follow the ceremony. No tickets are required, and general admission seating for all guests will begin at 2:30pm.
General Commencement Information may be found at: http://studentlife.uoregon.edu/programs/commencement/index.htm
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