Germanic Languages Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

CMRS Opening Reception

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

Literatur Trio

Three German authors, all of them still in their 20's, are touring the United States and Canada: Their visit at UCLA is the kick-off event for this tour!

Maike Wetzel was born in 1974 and studied film in Munich. In 1997 she became the youngest recipient of the Bettina-von-Arnim award. In 1999 she won the Allegra literary award. Hochzeiten (Weddings) is her first novel.

Tobias Hülswitt was born in Hannover in 1973 and studied at the German Literatur Institut in Leipzig. In 1998 he received the Martha Saalfeld award and became the runner up in the "open mike" contest of the Literatur- Werkstatt Berlin. His first novel Saga was published in 2000.

David Wagner was born in 1971 and landed a huge success with his first novel Meine nacht-blaue Hose (My dark blue Pants). He is a freelancer for the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. His second novel is due this fall.

Readings will be in German and English. Reception following the readings.

-- submitted by Astrid Klocke (aklocke@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.goethe.de/uk/mon/trio/deindex.htm

Sound Poetry/Music after 1945

Michael Lentz, a German poet/musician/performer who just won this year's prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Award, will give a presentation (in English) on "European Sound Poetry/Music after 1945" and also perform some of his own works.

Michael Lentz lives in Munich and is currently an artist-in-residence at the Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades. Born in 1964 in Dueren, he studied saxophone at the "Munich Education Center for Modern Music," and in 1989 joined the ensemble of Josef Anton Riedl. He also studied German Literature, History and Philosophy in Aachen and Munich and received his Ph.D. in 1998 with a thesis on sound poetry. Currently, he is working as an author for magazines, newspapers, the internet, radio and TV, and he has published several books. He is also working as a musician (saxophone and voice) and interprets experimental lyrics and phonetic poems.

Tuesday, December 4 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. 306 Royce Hall

Please join us for this exciting presentation!

-- submitted by Astrid Klocke (aklocke@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact aklocke@humnet.ucla.edu

"States of Religion: Moses Mendelssohn on Theocracy"

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

"The Remnant of Messianism"

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

A LECTURE BY MARIA BAADER

"Rabbis and Women, Authors and Translators, Mentors and Friends: The Gender Politics of Jewish Literature and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany".

This lecture will take place on Thursday January 24 at 5:00 pm in 306 Royce Hall.

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

Musica Humana: UCLA Early Music Collective

Medieval and Renaissance vocal music is inextricably linked with its notation: from the transcendent abstractions of the rhythmic proportions isorhythmic motet to the moveable type of early music printing, early modern song has both been contained in and transcended the vehicle of writing. But notation is only on half of the music‹the spaces provided by early modern composers through unwritten performance practice, such as the singerly practice of "false music," invite a modern en-voicing of these signs and symbols.

Spanning from the late fifteenth century to the late sixteenth century, this concert explores the medieval and renaissance vocal music both as musical objects of cultural exchange and as windows into another world. Featuring works by Power, Dunstable, Ockeghem, Josquin, Obrecht, Willaert, Morales, and Victoria, as well as others, this concert will also include projected visuals to accompany the performance.

The performing group Music Humana was created three years ago by the graduate students of the UCLA Musicology Department, and the group has continued to perform together embracing undergraduate students from both the music and the musicology departments. Musica Humana¹s goal is provide an exciting environment for performers and audience alike to explore the rich and varied ways in which all musical activities shape and express people and their cultures. With a combination of music and readings, Musica Humana¹s previous concerts have explored the many sonic worlds of the Renaissance, including that of sixteenth-century dance with the Los Angeles-based dance group, Danzando.

-- submitted by Kate Goodyear (goodyear@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact goodyear@humnet.ucla.edu

"The Paradoxes of German-Jewish Modernism and the Actuality of Karl Kraus" --PLEASE NOTE REVISED LOCATION

"THE PARADOXES OF GERMAN-JEWISH MODERNISM AND THE ACTUALITY OF KARL KRAUS"

to take place on Tuesday, January 29 at 5:00 pm in 314 Royce Hall.

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Viking Age Iceland: Sagas, History and Archeology"

The lecture will take place at the Jean Delacour Auditorium of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007. (213) 763- DINO www.nhm.org.

To make a reservation or for further information, please call the Education Division at (213) 763-3534.

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

'"You Still Haven't Finished With Your Mother': Allen Ginsberg and the Gendered Poetics of 'Kaddish'"

MAEERA SCHREIBER (U. of Utah)

as part of our Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Co-sponsored by:

UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures UCLA Department of Germanic Languages UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies UCLA Center for European & Russian Studies

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

"The Suffering and Salvation of God in Ancient Rabbinic Midrash"

MICHAEL FISHBANE (University of Chicago, Divinity School)

as part of the Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Cosponsored by: Center for Near Eastern Languages & Cultures Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Department of Germanic Languages Center for European and Russian Studies

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Before the Boxcar: Technologies of Mobility, Anxieties of Globalization, and Fantasies of German and Jewish Nationality"

"Before the Boxcar: Technologies of Mobilty, Anxieties of Globalization, and Fantasies of German and Jewish Nationality"

to take place on Thursday February 7, 2002, at 5:00 pm in 306 Royce Hall.

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Paul Celan's Other: Poetics and Ethics"

"PAUL CELAN'S OTHER: POETICS AND ETHICS"

to take place on Tuesday, February 12 at 5:00 in Royce 236.

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

TINE RUYSSCHAERT

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact kirsner@humnet.ucla.edu

Sexual States: A Colloquium and Graduate Workshop on German Sexuality Studies

Organized By: The Department Of Germanic Languages and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender Studies Program

Co-Sponsored By: The Dean Of Humanities, The Center For The Study Of Women, The Department Of History, The Center For 17th And 18th Century Studies, The Center For European And Russian Studies, The Center For Modern And Contemporary Studies, and The Graduate Division

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2002

MORNING SESSION

9:00-10:30 Lectures 314 Royce Hall Alice Kuzniar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Testcase Treut: Reevaluating the 90s Sexuality Debates

Annette Jael Lehmann, Freie Universität Berlin “So wie diese deutschen Schwuchteln können wir nicht zusammenleben”: Examples of Queer Sexuality and Masculinity in Recent German Film and Novels

10:45-12:15 Workshop 306 Royce Hall Jennifer M. Kapczynski, University of California, Berkeley Dissertation: The German Patient: Metaphors of National Illness in Postwar Literature and Film Chapter: Guns, Germs, and Sex: Fascism and the Sexual Predator in Der Verlorene

Mary Beth Wetli, University of Pennsylvania We Ain’t Broke -– So Stop Trying to Fix Us

LUNCH 12:15—1:45

AFTERNOON SESSION

1:45-3:15 Lectures 314 Royce Hall Yvonne Ivory, San Diego State University The Urning and His Own: Self-Fashioning and the Fin-de- Siècle Invert

Robert Tobin, Whitman College Pederasty in Palestine: Arnold Zweig on Sexuality and Nationality

AFTERNOON BREAK 3:15—3:30 306 Royce Hall

3:30-5:00 Workshop 306 Royce Hall Jared Poley, University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation: Ant People and Voodoo Queens: Hanns Heinz Ewers, the Occupied Rhineland, and German Decolonization Chapter: Whipping

Nancy Thuleen, University of Wisconsin, Madison Dissertation: Stefan George: Homoeroticism as Catalyst and Synthesis Chapter: Homoeroticism in the Conflict Between Stefan George and Hugo von Hofmannsthal

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2002

MORNING SESSION

10:00-11:30 Lectures 314 Royce Hall Niklaus Largier, University of California, Berkeley Cultures of Arousal and the Control of the Imagination

Simon Richter, University of Pennsylvania Poetry of the Breast

LUNCH 11:30—1:00

AFTERNOON SESSION

1:00-2:30 Lectures 314 Royce Hall James Steakley, University of Wisconsin, Madison Homo Hitler Redux

Katrin Sieg, Georgetown University Holocaust Historiography and Lesbian Biography: Reading Aimee and Jaguar

AFTERNOON BREAK 2:30—2:45 306 Royce Hall

2:45-4:15 Workshop 306 Royce Hall Jill Suzanne Smith, Indiana University Dissertation: Reading the Red Light: The Literary and Historical “Zoning” of the Prostitute in Berlin, 1880-1933 Chapter: Dynamic Woman or Frozen Image? The Prostitute in Berlin

Britta McEwen, University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation: Model City, Moral Choices: Sexuality in Red Vienna, 1919-1934 Chapter: Creating More Perfect Unions: Clinic Culture in Interwar Vienna

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.germanic.ucla.edu/load.cfm?sexualstates.

"Adorno Between Thought and Image"

GERHARD RICHTER, University of Wisconsin, entitled

“Adorno Between Thought and Image”

Thursday, March 7, 2002 306 Royce Hall 3:00 pm

An Associate Professor of German and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, Richter's research focuses on modern German literature, thought, and culture, the relationship between aesthetics and politics, philosophical approaches to literature and culture, as well as issues of critical theory in relation to other media and discourses. He is the author of Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography (2000), and editor of the forthcoming volumes Literary Friendship, Literary Paternity and Benjamin's Ghosts: Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory.

Refreshments will be served

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

"The Children's Odyssey: Exile, Nurses, and the Fantasy of Return"

KATIE TRUMPENER University of Chicago

entitled

“THE CHILDREN’S ODYSSEY: EXILE, NURSES, AND THE FANTASY OF RETURN”

Tuesday, March 12, 2002, 2:30 pm in 314 Royce Hall.

Refreshments will be served.

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Differing Conceptions of Memory in the Book of Numbers"

PROFESSOR ADRIANE LEVEEN (Hebrew Union College) on:

"Differing Conceptions of Memory in the Book of Numbers"

as part of our ongoing Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Cosponsors: Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies; Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures; Department of Germanic Languages; Center for European and Russian Studies; Department of English; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Studies

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

Franz Rosenzweig and Political Thoelogy: Universalism, Particularism, Exceptionalism"

Monday, April 29th, 2002 Royce 306 UCLA

9:00 - 12:00 Session One "Opening the Question: Franz Rosenzweig and Political Theology"

Peter Eli Gordon (Harvard University) Dana Hollander (Michigan State University) Moshe Idel (Hebrew University) David Myers (UCLA)

1:30 - 4:30 Session Two: "Unscientific Conclusions: Between Present and Eternity"

Giorgio Agamben (University of Verona) Gil Anidjar (Columbia University) Robert Gibbs (University of Toronto) Kenneth Reinhard (UCLA) Eric Santner (University of Chicago)

7:00 Keynote Address Peter Eli Gordon Department of History, Harvard University "Rosenzweig's Nietzschean Judaism"

Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is both one of the most famous and least read figures of 20th century European and North American Judaism. Besides his masterpiece, The Star of Redemption, largely written on aerograms to his mother from the trenches of WWI, Rosenzweig wrote several shorter essays and books, collaborated with Martin Buber on a monumental new translation of the Bible (as well as a radical theory of translation), and founded the Freie Juedische Lehrhaus in Frankfurt. Although he has long been revered as a great Jewish thinker, few people until recently have actually read his central work, The Star of Redemption (1921), with the attentiveness that it demanded. Increasingly, however, Rosenzweig has become the focus of intensive study in universities and seminaries, and these re-encounters have often been fruitful in unexpected and timely ways. Rosenzweig's thought has already had a great impact on a variety of disciplines, including philosophy, theology, the critical study of religion, psychoanalysis, education, and Jewish-Christian dialogue, and new implications and connections are constantly emerging. Rosenzweig's thought is both traditional in its reliance on classical Jewish texts and commentaries, and radical in its application of those concepts to a reinterpretation of human experience and possibility. Like many of his intellectual friends and relatives in Germany at the turn of the century, Rosenzweig considered converting to Christianity, as the more "rational" religion and the historical fulfillment of the Jewish revelation; but instead Rosenzweig forged a new path by returning to the texts and practices of Judaism and comparing them to those of Christianity and Islam. In the particulars of Rabbinic Jewish thought, Rosenzweig found the basis of a fundamental philosophy and ethico-political practice that would extend to embrace all people in its universal vision of redemption.

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

A LECTURE BY HANS R. VAGET

HANS R. VAGET (Helen and Laura Shedd Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature, Smith College)

entitled

“Die Rettung des Priap: Zu Goethes Projekt einer modernen erotischen Dichtung”

This lecture will be given on Tuesday, May 7, 2002, in 334C Royce Hall, at 4:00 PM.

Reception to follow in the Lounge of the Department of Germanic Languages.

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Jesus, Gentiles and the Synagogue: The Real Origins of Christianity"

PAULA FREDRIKSEN (Boston University)

on "JESUS, GENTILES, AND THE SYNAGOGUE: THE REAL ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY" as part of our ongoing Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Co-sponsors: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures Department of Germanic Languages Department of English Center for European & Russian Studies Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Studies

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

Lyn@humnet.ucla.edu

The 5th Annual SCALAR Symposium

Wednesday, May 15th, 2002

Dr. Liz Hamp-Lyons Chair Professor of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Assessing writing across the curriculum: First language and second language competence

-- submitted by Lyn Repath-Martos (lyn@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact greenb@ucla.edu

A LECTURE BY INGEBORG HOESTEREY

A Lecture by Ingeborg Hoesterey (Indiana University, Bloomington)

"Visible Subtext: Libeskind's Jewish Museum Berlin and its Roots in Deconstructivist Architecture"

Friday, May 17, 2-4 p.m., 236 Royce Hall (French Seminar Room)

Ingeborg Hoesterey is Professor of Comparative Literature and Germanic Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. With a background in literary studies and art history, Professor Hoesterey has in recent years focused on interrelations of verbal and visual art in modernism/postmodernism. Her latest book is no exception: "Pastiche: Cultural Memory in Art, Film, Literature" (Indiana UP, 2001). Earlier book-length publications include "Verschlungene Schriftzeichen: Intertextualitaet von Literatur und Kunst in der Moderne/Postmoderne" ("Intertextuality of Literature and Art in Modernism/Postmodernism") and "Zeitgeist in Babel: The Postmodernist Controversy," among other collections. In her current research Hoesterey examines the intriguing cross-over of "theory" to avant-garde architectural thought and practice.

A reception will follow the lecture.

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

Lecture: Libeskind's Jewish Museum Berlin

A Lecture by Ingeborg Hoesterey (Indiana University, Bloomington)

Visible Subtext: Libeskind's Jewish Museum Berlin and its Roots in Deconstructivist Architecture.

Ingeborg Hoesterey is Professor of Comparative Literature and Germanic Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. With a background in literary studies and art history, Professor Hoesterey has in recent years focused on interrelations of verbal and visual art in modernism/postmodernism. Her latest book is no exception: "Pastiche: Cultural Memory in Art, Film, Literature" (Indiana UP, 2001). Earlier book-length publications include "Verschlungene Schriftzeichen: Intertextualitaet von Literatur und Kunst in der Moderne/Postmoderne" ("Intertextuality of Literature and Art in Modernism/Postmodernism") and "Zeitgeist in Babel: The Postmodernist Controversy," among other collections. In her current research Hoesterey examines the intriguing cross-over of "theory" to avant-garde architectural thought and practice.

A reception will follow the lecture.

-- submitted by Astrid Klocke (aklocke@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact aklocke@humnet.ucla.edu

"Wagner, Kafka, Rosenzweig on Soil, Blood, Language"

ELISABETH WEBER (UC Santa Barbara)

on "Wagner, Kafka, Rosenzweig on Soil, Blood, Language" as part of our ongoing Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Co-sponsored by:

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department of Germanic Languages Department of English Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Center for European and Russian Studies Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

PASSIONS OF THE REAL: SCIENCE, ART, POLITICS, a Lecture series with SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK

Schedule:

“Cynical Reason: A Discussion” – Slavoj Žižek and Fredric Jameson on Monday, May 20, 2002, 4:00 pm, 314 Royce Hall, reception to follow.

“How does Cognitivism Affect Psychoanalysis?” Tuesday, May 21, 2002, 5:00 pm, 362 Royce Hall.

“Art Beyond the Pleasure Principle” Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 5:00 pm, 314 Royce Hall.

“Against Democracy: Towards a Politics of Subtraction” Friday, May 24, 2002, 4:00 pm, 314 Royce Hall.

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Homoeroticism in the Biblical World: Biblical Texts in Historical Contexts"

MARY ANN TOLBERT (Graduate Theological Union)

on

"HOMOEROTICISM IN THE BIBLICAL WORLD: BIBLICAL TEXTS IN HISTORICAL CONTEXTS"

as part of our ongoing Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Cosponsors: Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures

Department of Germanic Languages

Department of English

UCLA Hillel

Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

Center for European & Russian Studies

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies

-- submitted by spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

"New Reflections of Spinoza's Excommunication"

RICHARD POPKIN (UCLA, Emeritus)

on

"NEW REFLECTIONS OF SPINOZA'S EXCOMMUNICATION"

as part of our ongoing series on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Co-sponsors:

UCLA Department of English

UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures

UCLA Department of Germanic Languages

UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies

UCLA Hillel

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)