Events and Activities
Conferences
Coming in August 2012: Experimental and Empirical Approaches to Politeness and Impoliteness (LIAR III)
Midwest Symposium in German Studies; April 13-14, 2012.
Change Through Exchange: Promoting Global Leadership Via Academic Exchange; October 2011.
Midwest Symposium in Germanic Studies; April 2011.
Choosing Change. A Symposium Marking the Twentieth Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall; November 2009.
Romantic Spaces, Romantic Imaginations; October 2008.
Gender Matters: Re-Reading Violence, Death, and Gender in Early Modern Literature and Culture (Mellon State-of-the-Art Conference); March 2007.
Heine, Jewishness, Love: A Colloquium on Heinrich Heine (1797-1856); November 2006. This colloquium was also a commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures’ lecture series, the "Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft.”
Violence in German Literature, Culture, and Intellectual History, 1789-1938 (Mellon State-of-the-Art Conference); 2005.