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Joseph Salmons, University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be giving a talk on patterns within language shift, drawing on examples from American communities. 


Babel in Reverse: Toward a Theory of Language Shift

Historian Harry Binkow will be giving a talk about the history of the Romanov family and what happened to them.


Harry Binkow Talk on the Russian Royal Family

The Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies would like to invite you all to join us on Tuesday, September 5th, for a lecture by Dr. Mark Gelber, from Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Dr. Gelber’s lecture is titled, “The Stefan Zweig Renaissance and the World of Yesterday” and will explore potential reasons for such a renaissance and whether new insight to Stefan Zweig’s work can supplant the long-standing views already in place. Dr. Gelber is…


The Stefan Zweig Revival and the World of Yesterday

  Ulrich Woelk is an award-winning author from Berlin, Germany. Since publishing his debut novel, Freigang (1990), which was awarded the Aspekte Literaturpreis, Woelk has written ten novels, one of which, Die letzte Vorstellung, was turned into the award-winning film Mord am Meer (2005). Ulrich Woelk has also written several plays, radio plays, short stories, and essays, as well as the libretto of an opera about Wernher von Braun, a…


An Evening with the Author: Ulrich Woelk

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

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