Past Events

2009-2009

November 9: A presentation, "The Implications of Politics for everyday life in Berlin", by Peter Frischmuth.

2008-2009

September 3: German Studies Roundtable, organized by Prof. James Van Horn Melton
Presenter: Jared Poley, Department of History, Georgia State University, "Greed in History: Early Modern German Contexts"

September 18: Speaker Martin Richenhagen "Doing Business in the U.S. and Germany: Cultural differences, challenges and opportunities" This event was sponsored by the German Advisory Council.

October 15: Speaker Heinrich-Peter Rothmann "Today's German-American Relations through the Eyes of a German Diplomat" This event was sponsored by the German Advisory Council.

December 3: German Studies Roundtable, organized by Prof. James Van Horn Melton
Presenter: Prof. Erik Nutler, Asst. Prof. Department of German Studies, Emory University
"Das Urgesicht:Benn, Kafka and the Terrorist Aestethics of Modernism"

2007-2008

Roundtable Series:

September 7: George Williamson, Univ. of Alabama, "August von Kotzebue and his Eigteenth-Century Critics:The Formation of a Literary Reputation"

November 14: Renae Dearhouse, Visiting Instructor, "Fictionalizing the Indigenous in Humboldt's South American Journey"

February 9: Joe Perry, Georgia State Univ., "The Ghosts of Christmas Past" from his book "Silent Night, Holy Nation: Christmas in Germany, 1800-1970"

April 23: Maximilian Aue, Emory, "Die Zwischenkriegszeit" from his book "At Utopia's Threshold: The Reinvention of Venice in German Literature and Thought between the Wars"

Speaker Series:

February 21: Speaker Karsten D. Voigt,Coordinator of German-American Cooperation with the Federal Government of Germany: "The German View on the US presidential elections 2008"

February 25: Speaker Ruth Klueger, Professor Emeritus of German Literature at UC Irvine "The Aftermath. Living with Memories of the Holocaust"

March 26: Speaker Wibke Bruhns, Author "My Father's Country: The Story of a German Family"

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Karsten Voigt >>>

Ruth Klüger >>>