Germanic Languages Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

CMRS Faculty Roundtable: "Viking Archaeology and the Stave Church at Mosfell"

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

Seminar: "'Re-Orienting' Jewish Modernity: A Genealogical Approach"

Presents

“‘RE-ORIENTING’ JEWISH MODERNITY: A GENEALOGICAL APPROACH”

A Faculty/Student Workshop

By: LITAL LEVY (UC Berkeley)

Monday, November 7, 2005 • 306 Royce Hall • 12 pm

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.

Please RSVP to cjs@humnet.ucla.edu

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Charisma and Aura: A Medievalist Raid on Some Post-Medieval Categories"

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

Conference: "JEWISH LA--THEN AND NOW"

"JEWISH LA-- THEN AND NOW"

A three-day national conference on the history of Los Angeles Jews.

Day 1: LA JEWISH STORIES -- Saturday, November 12, 6-9PM at the Skirball Cultural Center

Day 2: JEWISH LA INSIDE AND OUT -- Sunday, November 13, 10AM-6PM at the Autry National Center

Day 3: WHAT'S WESTERN ABOUT THE LA JEWISH EXPERIENCE? -- Monday, November 14, 10AM-6PM at the UCLA Faculty Center

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE RSVP TO CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU.

For more information, please visit www.lajh.org.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.lajh.org

"Die Stille nach dem Schuss (2000)" - UCLA Germanic Languages Film Series

Second Film in the Series

"Die Stille nach dem Schuss" (2000), directed by Volker Schloendorff

Tuesday, November 15 at 5:30 pm in 314 Royce Hall.

All films in German with English subtitles

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

Lecture: "THE LAST DAYS OF BUCZACZ: JUDICIAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE DESTRUCTION OF A MULTI-ETHNIC GALICIAN TOWN"

Presents

“THE LAST DAYS OF BUCZACZ: JUDICIAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE DESTRUCTION OF A MULTI-ETHNIC GALICIAN TOWN"

The "1939" Club Distinguished Lecture in Holocaust Studies

By: Omer Bartov (Brown University)

Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies

Sunday, November 20, 2005 Faculty Center • 7:30 pm

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE RSVP TO CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU.

About the Lecture: Buczacz is the hometown of the only Hebrew author who has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Shmuel Yosef Agnon; of the great Polish Jewish historian, Emanuel Ringelblum; of Sigmund Freud’s grandparents; of Simon Wiesenthal; and of Bartov’s own mother. It was founded in the 14th century as a private Polish town owned by a noble family. Bartov is particularly interested in the relationships between its Ukrainian, Polish and Jewish residents, whose ethnicity, religion and trades differed.

About the Speaker: Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University and considered one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject of genocide. He is the author of six books and the editor of three volumes, including Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation (Oxford UP, 1996), which received the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History; Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity (Oxford UP, 2000), an analysis of the relationship between total war and state-organized genocide and the emergence of modern identity; and The “Jew” in Cinema: From the Golem to Don’t Touch My Holocaust (Indiana UP, 2005). As a Guggenheim Fellow (2003-2004), Professor Bartov researched the history of interethnic relations and violence in the East Galician town of Buczacz. He received his Ph.D. from Oxford.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

Seminar: "THE DEBATE OVER THE EXHIBITION 'CRIMES OF THE WEHRMACHT' AND THE REALITY OF INTER-ETHNIC RELATIONS IN EAST GALICIA IN 1941"

Presents

"THE DEBATE OVER THE EXHIBITION ‘CRIMES OF THE WEHRMACHT’ AND THE REALITY OF INTER-ETHNIC RELATIONS IN EAST GALICIA IN 1941”

A Faculty/Student Workshop

By: OMER BARTOV (Brown)

Monday, November 21, 2005 12 pm • 314 Royce Hall (please note new room)

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE RSVP TO CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU.

About the Speaker: Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University and considered one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject of genocide. He is the author of six books and the editor of three volumes, including Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation (Oxford UP, 1996), which received the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History; Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity (Oxford UP, 2000), an analysis of the relationship between total war and state-organized genocide and the emergence of modern identity; and The “Jew” in Cinema: From the Golem to Don’t Touch My Holocaust (Indiana UP, 2005). As a Guggenheim Fellow (2003-2004), Professor Bartov researched the history of interethnic relations and violence in the East Galician town of Buczacz. He received his Ph.D. from Oxford.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Erleuchtung garantiert (2000)" -Germanic Langauges Film Series

Third Film in the Series

"Erleuchtung garantiert" (2000), directed by Doris Doerrie Tuesday, December 6 at 5:30 pm in 314 Royce Hall.

All films in German with English subtitles

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

CJS SEMINAR: "Faithful Renderings: Jewish Difference and the Practice of Translation"

"Faithful Renderings: Jewish Difference and the Practice of Translation"

A Faculty/Student Workshop

By NAOMI SEIDMAN (Graduate Theological Union)

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 • 306 Royce Hall • 12 pm

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE RSVP TO CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

CJS SEMINAR: "Western Jewish Agricultural Colonies and Why They Failed"

“Western Jewish Agricultural Colonies and Why They Failed”

A Seminar on Jewish Culture

By ELEANOR KAUFMAN (UCLA)

Thursday, January 26, 2006 • 306 Royce Hall • 12 pm

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE RSVP TO CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem: An Unknown Chapter of a Complex Relationship"

This lecture will take place on Monday January 30, 2006 at 4:00 pm in 306 Royce Hall.

This lecture is Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies.

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

CJS SEMINAR: "Modern Jewries and the Imperial Imagination"

“Modern Jewries and the Imperial Imagination”

Seminar on Jewish Culture

By SARAH STEIN (Washington University)

Tuesday, January 31, 2006 • 306 Royce Hall • 12 pm

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE RSVP TO CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

"The Epic Prosody of the Sublime Nation: Klopstock's Messias"

"The Epic Prosody of the Sublime Nation: Klopstock's Messias"

This colloquium takes place on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 4:00 pm in 334C Royce Hall.

The Speaker will offer a brief introduction and then respond to questions from those in attendance.

The paper will be pre-circulated. Request a copy from Benay Furtivo at: furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu.

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

"Cities of the Dead, or The Topography of Germany's Catastrophic Imaginary"

"Cities of the Dead, or The Topography of Germany's Catastrophic Imaginary"

This colloquium takes place on Monday, March 6, 2006 at 4:00 pm in 314 Royce Hall.

The Speaker will offer a brief introduction and then respond to questions from those in attendance.

The paper will be pre-circulated. Request a copy from Benay Furtivo at: furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu.

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

UDHIG meeting

-- submitted by Zoe Borovsky, PhD (zoe@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Modernism Before the Bauhaus: The Cultural Politics of Architecture in Wilhelmine Germany", a lecture by John Maciuika

JOHN MACIUIKA (City University of New York, Baruch College)

"Modernism Before the Bauhaus: The Cultural Politics of Architecture in Wilhelmine Germany"

This lecture will take place on Tuesday April 18, 2006 at 4:00 pm in 306 Royce Hall.

John Maciuika is an assistant professor of modern art and architectural history. His research emphasizes the development of twentieth-century architecture and design, issues of cultural identity in architecture, and the sociology of the design professions. Professor Maciuika is the author of Before the Bauhaus: Architecture, Politics, and the German State, 1890-1920 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), and has contributed articles on modern architecture and design to such publications as Design Issues, German Studies Review, German Politics and Society, Centropa, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, and Scholion, as well as to the Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture.

-- submitted by (furtivo@humanities.ucla.edu)

Film screening: "Der Tunnel"

-- submitted by Jonathan Jones (jonjones@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/germanclub/filmseries.html

LGBTS Lecture Series: Erik N. Jensen

4:00 pm, 334C Germanic Languages Seminar Room, Royce Hall

ERIK N. JENSEN

Department of History, Miami University

Fist-fighting Females! Weimar Women's Boxing between Sensationalism and Sport

This paper explores the representation and practice of women's boxing in Weimar Germany and the ways in which the sport both challenged and reaffirmed traditional notions of feminine athleticism and sexuality. At the same time, though, popular images of women's boxing almost perfectly paralleled those of men's boxing, suggesting ways in which the sport itself was defined by theatricality, passivity (as well as activity), and a blurring of the subjective and objective body.

Cosponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages

-- submitted by LGBT Studies Program (lgbs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Website Presentations of New Media Colloquium

-- submitted by Jonathan Jones (jonjones@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Art History Symposium/Discussion

UCLA Hammer Museum Wednesday, May 24, 7 PM

“Incorporated, Inc.: A Museum of Modern Art Before the Museum of Modern Art”

In conjunction with the current Hammer exhibition, “The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America,” a small symposium and panel discussion on the importance of the Société Anonyme as the first “experimental museum” for contemporary art in the United States.

Organized and moderated by George Baker, with Miwon Kwon, Richard Meyer, and Nancy J. Troy.

George Baker is assistant professor of art history at UCLA, an editor of OCTOBER magazine, a critic for ARTFORUM, and is currently preparing the book The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris.

Miwon Kwon is associate professor of contemporary art history at UCLA and the author of One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity.

Richard Meyer is associate professor of art history at the University of Southern California (USC); his book Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth- Century Art received the Charles C. Eldredge Prize.

Nancy J. Troy is professor of modern art at USC, president of the National Committee for the History of Art, and is currently working on a book about Piet Mondrian.

-- submitted by (jenny@humanities.ucla.edu)

Huns vs. Corned Beef: Representations of the Other in American and German Literature and Film on WWI

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

"THE SATIRICAL WORLD OF SHIMEN DZIGAN"

Presents

"THE SATIRICAL WORLD OF SHIMEN DZIGAN"

Seminar in Yiddish Studies

By: John Efron (UC Berkeley)

Thursday, October 19, 2006 • 306 Royce Hall • 12 PM

Pre-registration is required. Please email cjs@humnet.ucla.edu to RSVP.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

"The Fortunes of Love in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen"

Hans Vaget

"The Fortunes of Love in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen"

Tuesday, November 14, 2006 3:30 pm Royce Hall 334C

Refreshments to follow lecture

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Film Screening: "Downfall"

It's the last days of Adolf Hitler, April 1945, and Hitler's personal secretary Traudl Junge finds herself in the Der Führer's bunker. Facing inevitable defeat, Hilter's moods range from defiance to fight or flee, remain loyal or opt for self- preservation. Eva Braun parties while Magda Goebbels kills her children. The movie goes on to show how Hitler and Eva lived their last hours in the Bunker.

-- submitted by Jonathan Jones (jonjones@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact germanclub@ucla.edu

Jörg Friedrich -- Targeting Civilians: The Allied Bombing of German Cities in World War II

“Friedrich’s book is not a lament but it is, in parts, an indictment.” — London Review of Books

Targeting Civilians: The Allied Bombing of German Cities in World War II

During the Second World War Allied forces mounted a bombing campaign against German cities in order to convince civilians to withdraw their support for the German war machine. 600,000 civilians, including 70,000 children, were killed during the total air war campaign which lasted five years. Jörg Friedrich discusses his controversial book, The Fire, which is available for the first time in English. His lecture addresses the ramifications of the Allied bombing of Germany, touching on the debate over German victimhood, the morality of war, the accusations of Allied war crimes, and the implications for the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

"Making Sense of the Chinese Rites Debate: Rome 1735, Los Angeles 2007"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Steven Beller Lecture: "Island of the Blessed/Island of the Damned: Austria and the Jews in Modern History"

Steven Beller

"Island of the Blessed/Island of the Damned: Austria and the Jews in Modern History"

Tuesday, February 27

7:30 pm

Royce Hall 314

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Der gruene Kakadu

UCLA Northwest Auditorium (by Sproul Hall)

Thursday and Friday, March 15th & 16th

7pm (est. 1hr 15 mins)

Campus Map: http://www.ucla.edu/map/map_north.html

Parking is available (for $8) in the adjacent lot.

The event is FREE.

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

LGBTS Lecture

ANDREAS KRASS

A THORN IN THE FLESH: A QUEER READING OF KLEIST’S “ON THE MARIONETTE THEATER”

Wednesday, May 9, 2007 5:00 pm 306 Royce Hall

Andreas Krass is professor of German literature at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He has published important works on medieval literature and cultural studies and edited the only collection of queer theoretical texts translated from English into German.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

For further information contact the LGBT Studies Program at lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu or 310 206 0516

-- submitted by Courtney D. Marshall (lgbs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Hans-Christian von Herrmann -- "Artificial Art or Mimesis by Abstraction"

Hans-Christian von Herrmann

"Artificial Art or Mimesis by Abstraction"

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Royce Hall 243

4:00 pm

As Roland Barthes wrote in his famous 1964 essay "The Structuralist Activity" structuralism can be described as a new form of mimesis that is not anymore based on analogy of substances but on analogy of functions. And according to Barthes this mimesis can be found both in science and art. The lecture will discuss this structuralist junction of epistemology and aesthetics by focussing on some examples of computer generated graphics and poetry of the 1960s.

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Studying and Working in Berlin -- Information Session for International Parliamentary Scholarship

Information Session for the International Parliamentary Scholarship

Wednesday, October 3

2:30 – 4:00 pm

10383 Bunche Hall

Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, IPS, UCLA Education Abroad Program, the UCLA Travel Study Program, and the Center for European and Eurasian Studies

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

German Club Film Screening: "The Lives of Others"

"The Lives of Others"

introduced by its Oscar-winning director

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

4:30 pm

314 Royce Hall

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Christina Gerhardt Lecture

Christina Gerhardt

(Fulbright Scholar, Hamburger Institute for Social Research)

Political History and Cultural Memory: East Germany and the RAF in Volker Schlöndorff’s The Legend of Rita

Tuesday, October 9, 2007,

5:30 p.m.

334C Royce Hall

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Mark Poster Lecture -- "McLuhan and Cultural Theory of the Media"

Lecture Series 2007-08 “Genealogies of Media History”

Presents a lecture by

Mark Poster

(UC Irvine)

“McLuhan and Cultural Theory of the Media”

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

5:30 pm

Faculty Center Sequoia Room

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Program for the Study of the Contemporary, the Department of Germanic Languages, and the Department of Comparative Literature

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Wolfgang Emmerich Lecture

Wolfgang Emmerich

(University of Bremen & Cornell)

“Dürfen die Deutschen ihre eigenen Opfer Beklagen? Schiffsuntergänge in der deutschen Nachkriegsliteratur”

Monday, October 29, 2007

Royce Hall 334 C

12:00 PM

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Julia Hell Lecture: "Ruins of Modernity: Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West"

Julia Hell

(University of Michigan)

"Ruins of Modernity: Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West"

Monday, November 5, 2007

Royce Hall 314

5:00 pm

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

CJS SEMINAR: Fighting for the Honor of Israel: Jews and Professional Wrestling in Warsaw before WWII

Presents

Fighting for the Honor of Israel: Jews and Professional Wrestling in Warsaw before WWII, a Seminar in Yiddish Studies.

By Edward Portnoy (Jewish Theoloigcal Seminary)

Thursday, November 15, 2007 12:00PM

Pre-registration is required. Please RSVP at (310) 267- 5327 or at cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu

For more information about the event or the speaker, please visit our website.

-- submitted by Bora Kim (cjs2@humanities.ucla.edu)

Mark Poster Lecture -- "McLuhan and Cultural Theory of the Media"

Mark Poster

(UC Irvine)

"McLuhan and Cultural Theory of Media"

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Royce Hall 306

5:00 pm

Co-sponsored by the Program for the Study of the Contemporary, the Department of Germanic Languages, and the Department of Comparative Literature

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Bernhard Siegert -- "(Im)possibilities of Writing Media History"

presents

Bernhard Siegert

(Bauhaus Universitat Weimar and UC Santa Barbara)

"(Im)possibilities of Writing Media History"

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Royce Hall 314

5:30 pm

Co-sponsored by the Program for the Study of the Contemporary, the Department of Germanic Languages, and the Department of Comparative Literature

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

Austria 1918 and the Aftermath -- History, Literature, and Film

present an international and interdisciplinary conference

Austria 1918 and the Aftermath -- History, Literature, and Film

February 22-23, 2008

Royce Hall 314

9:30 am Opening Remarks:

Dean Timothy A. Stowell (University of California, Los Angeles)

Hans Wagener (University of California, Los Angeles)

Karl Müller (Universität Salzburg, Austria)

Moderator: Vic Fusilero (UCLA)

10:00 am Peter Loewenberg (UCLA)

Austria 1918: Coming to Terms with the National Trauma of Defeat and Fragmentation

11:00 am Bela Rasky (Universität Wien, Austria)

Habsburg ohne Habsburg. Zur Nachgeschichte der k.u.k. Monarchie in Österreich und Ungarn

Moderator: Ivett Guntersdorfer (UCLA)

2:00 pm Robert Weigel (Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama)

„Um diese Zeit ist vieles hoffnungslos und krasser“: Das Schicksalsjahr 1918 als Kulmination und Fortsetzung des Brochschen Wertevakuums

3:00 pm Helga Schreckenberger (University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont)

Literarische Reaktionen zur ostjüdischen Zuwanderung nach 1918

4:30 pm Wolfgang Nehring (UCLA)

Fronten ohne Front – Zur verspäteten Analyse des 3. November 1918 durch Franz Theodor Csokor

Saturday, February 23, 2008 – UCLA, Royce Hall, Room 314

Moderator: André Schütze (UCLA)

9:30 am Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner (Kunstuniversität Graz, Austria)

Theateravantgarden der Ersten Republik – Positionen und Beispiele

10:30 am Karl Müller (Universität Salzburg, Austria)

Literarische Spiegelungen der Zeit: "Inflation" – "der neue Mensch" 11:30 am Maria-Regina Kecht (Rice University, Houston, Texas)

Weltgeschichte in Erinnerung: Kriegsgeschehen in den Texten von österreichischen Gegenwartsautorinnen

Moderator: Mohammad Rafi (UCLA)

2:00 pm Fatima Naqvi (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey)

Michael Haneke und postnationale Konstellationen

3:00 pm Robert von Dassanowsky (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado)

Finis Austriae, vivat Austria – The Re/Vision of 1918 in Austrian Film

4:00 pm General Discussion

Co-sponsored by UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies and the Austrian Consulate General

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.germanic.ucla.edu/