Archive of Events

Tuesday, March 20th

The Ister film screening.
1-4:00 pm, Dauer Hall 215
Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies.

Ister Roundtable Discussion
4-6:00 pm, Dauer Hall 215
Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies.

Monday, March 19th

The Ister film screening.
3-6:00 pm, Dauer Hall 215

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

Maslenitsa!, the 5th Annual Russian Spring Festival, with music, games and a cooking contest.

Saturday, January 27, 2007

Symposium on German Film
German Cinema: National and Global Dimensions
Location: Auditorium at The Harn Museum
This is a free event and open to the public.

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Hans-Christian Schmid. "Lights". (2003)
7:00 pm, CBD 212
A contemporary film about different border crossings between Germany and Poland. Co-sponsored by the German Club and the Polish Club with an introduction by Ewa Wampuszyc, Center for European Studies

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Billy Wilder. "One, Two, Three". (1961)
7:00 pm, CBD 212
Coca Cola meets socialist parades at the Brandenburg Gate in Billy Wilder?s brilliant Cold War comedy. Co-sponsored by the German Club, with an introduction by Barbara Mennel, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies

October 9-11, 2006

“Who?” or “What?” – Jacques Derrida Conference. A conference to celebrate the legacy of Jacques Derrida. Featuring Prof. Hélène Cixous, FFRI Visiting Professor, Centre d’Etudes Féminines, Paris VIII; Prof. J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine; and Prof. Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California.

March 23, 2006

Parting With--Mediality In the Early Work of Walter Benjamin (PDF)
A talk by Professor Samuel Weber, one of the foremost contemporary thinkers in the field of mass-media, philosophy and psychoanalysis. He teaches in the German Department at Northwestern University where he holds the title of Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities.

March 8, 2006

People's Courts and Popular Justice: The Punishment of Nazis, Traitors, and Their Accomplices" in Postwar Czechoslovakia
A Lecture by Benjamin Frommer, Professor of History,
Northwestern University

February 21, 2006

New Europe, Old Europe: Balkan Masculinities in War Cinema
A lecture by Tomislav Z. Longinovic.

January 31 and February 1st, 2006

The Post-Communist Condition: Art and Identity in the New Europe and an Encounter With Boris Grays
A lecture and public discussion with Dr. Boris Groys.

December 28, 2005

Joint reception at the MLA, Washington DC
To honor J. Hillis Miller and to the publication of "Literature as Conduct".

Graduate Student Presentations

List of Presentations

>> top