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Dr. Ulrike Schneider, from Potsdam University, Germany, is the Spring 2017 Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor for the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies. She will be leading a talk on Jewish authors in the German Democratic Republic.


Jewish Authors in the GDR - Historical and Literary Perspectives on a Controversial Topic

Dr. Sarah Colvin, the Schroeder Professor of German at Cambridge, will be coming to Athens to give a talk about right-wing radicalization in Germany:  “Radicalization” is a tricky notion: the idea of the “radical” has come to signal mainstream society’s Other. I’ll present some narrative evidence that people who have “radical” beliefs often also share conventional or mainstream beliefs, and consider the implications of that. One hypothesis…


Narrative Patterns in Right-Wing Radicalization

Can a major work of world literature from the nineteenth century speak to us today about how to live in the age of climate change? Goethe’s Faust, the sprawling tragedy of a man’s relentless striving for knowledge, may at once be the most universal and the most personal work of literature ever written. Through its remarkably expansive sense of the “here and now” of the act of reading, it offers us a way to orient ourselves relative to…


Reading with Hiccups: Goethe's Faust, Climate Change, and YOU

Dr. Alexander Sager, along with Dr. Cas Mudde, an associate professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at UGA and internationally recognized expert on European radical right movements and populism, will lead a discussion on current and upcoming political events in Europe, including several approaching elections, and discuss their importance for both Europe and the world.


European Populism: What's Happening, What's Coming Up, and What it Means

Guest speaker Dr. Christina Gerhardt, from the University of Hawaii, Manoa, will be presenting a lecture on the film "The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum."


Surveillance and Terror in The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

Please join the department of Germanic & Slavic Studies for a lecture by visiting professor Dr. Norbert Otto Eke, entiteld:  “The future dead are those who don’t stay awake in this dream in the holy theatre of the Now”: Werner Fritsch’s Dramatic Theory as Dramatic Script Tuesday, March 22, 2016, at 5:00 pm, room 267 Miller Learning Center.      


Lecture by Dr. Norbert Otto Eke, the Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor

Yuri Savel'ev, visiting professor from the Russian Academy of the Arts, will present a lecture on Stalinist Architecture. A little background on Stalinist Architecture, from  http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SCC/SCC030a.htm  'Stalinist Architecture' is the term typically applied to the years between 1933 (the date of the final competition to design the Palace of the Soviets) and 1955 (The Academy of Architecture was abolished).  In…


Lecture on Stalinist Architecture by Yuri Savel'ev

Dr. Michael Putnam, from Pennsylvania State University, will be leading a lecture on generative grammar. He will be discussing the findings from recent research done in related fields, such as psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, and showing the impact this research has on some of the questions that linguists seek to answer.


Multilingualism and the Future of Generative Grammar

During the 1980s, Pomak (Bulgarian Muslim) indigenous wedding traditions were forbidden by the Communist Bulgarian government, and brides were forced to wear Western attire. Today, most brides choose elaborate Western gowns and hairstyles. But in some villages, brides have chosen to revive traditional dress, in which the bride’s face is covered in white makeup and decorated with sequins. Interviews with elder women and brides show this…


Enacting the Wedding: Pomak Indigenous Revival in Post-Socialist Bulgaria

Joan Adler, historian and author, will discuss her book, which details recently discovered correspondence from 1941 between Anne Frank's father, Otto Frank, and his college friend Nathan Straus, Jr. who was the Director of the U.S. Housing Administration under Franklin Roosevelt. The two were roommates at Heidelberg University and remained lifelong friends.JoanAdler v.3.pdf


Author Talk: Joan Adler: "For the Sake of the Children: The Letters Between Otto Frank and Nathan Straus, Jr."

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