• Carmina Burana
  The City Ballet of Knoxville will perform with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and Knoxville Choral Society on April 1 at 8pm and April 2 at 2pm in the Civic Auditorium. For tickets, call 544-0495.

  German writer Matthias Politycki will be on campus April 5th and 6th as part of a reading tour through the Southeastern U.S. His work focuses on what he calls the "forgotten generation" of the 78ers (as opposed to the 68ers). His previous novel Weiberroman (Luchterhand, 1997) was a major success, especially among critics. A former university professor, he publishes regularly on the current literary scene, on German-American (literary) relations, and on a number of related issues. For more information on Matthias Politycki (a complete vita, reading samples, etc.) you can visit his web site at http://novel.zdf.de/index.asp or for more on his visit to Knoxville, please contact Dr. Peter Höyng, 974-3421, hoeyng@utk.edu.

  On the evening of April 6th at 7:30pm in the Cherokee Room of the Faculty Club, Mr. Politycki will be the guest speaker at the Spring 2000 Awards Evening for the University of Tennessee chapter of the German Honor Society, Delta Phi Alpha. The topic of his presentation will be "Blick zurück nach vorn: am Anfang vom Ende einer deutschsprachigen Literatur".

• Documentary Filmmaker Jill Godmilow
  On Thursday, April 13 , at 7 pm Jill Godmilow will be present to present and discuss her film "What Farocki Taught" (30 min., 1998) and Farocki's original, (1969) in 413 Art & Architecture. Godmilow's film is literally and stubbornly a remake -- that is, a perfect replica, in color and in English, of Farocki's Germany film produced at the height of the Vietnam War. In "Inextinguishable Fire", Farocki attempted to make "visible," and thus comprehensible, the physical properties and capacities of Napalm B and to demonstrate the difficulty of resistance to its production by Dow Chemical Corp employees and ultimately to its use by U.S. military in Vietnam. Both utilize Brechtian reconstruction and demonstration and a strategy of "under-representation," refusing the pornography of documentary "evidence."

  On Friday, April 14, at 10:00-11:30 am in the Hodges Library Auditorium Godmilow will screen her first film, a documentary portrait co-directed with folksinger Judy Collins in 1973, "Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman." Godmilow will situate the film as an early feminist documentary; it was indeed the first independendently produced American documentary to enjoy extensive theatrical exhibition in the U.S. and broadcast in 11 foreign countries, with Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary. Sponsored by UT Film Committee, Association of Women Faculty & Women's Studies Program.

• Spring 2000 Linguistics Colloquium
  The Linguistics Program at UT invites you to an afternoon of presentations and discussions on Friday, April 28th in McClung 1210-1211.

  3:30 Introduction of speakers and welcome to colloquium by Professor Jeff Mellor, German Program, Department of Modern Foreign Languages

  3:40-4:10 Professor Hiram Maxim, German Program, Department of Modern Foreign Languages, "Using Cultural Theory to Navigate the Cultural C's in the Foreign Language Classroom"

  4:10-4:30 Professor Constancio Nakuma, French Program, Department of Modern Foreign Languages, "Teaching Culture without Playing the Professor: Engaging the Student through Discourse Analysis"

  4:30-5:00 Professor Bethany Dumas, English Department, "Comprehensibilkity of US Pattern Jury Instructions: Overcoming Inertia"

  5:00-6:00 General discussion and refreshments; introduction of Linguistics faculty and majors/minors

• Choral and Symphonic works by Bach and Brahms
  The Oak Ridge Chorus, along with the Oak Ridge Symphony, presents a concert of Bach and Brahms at 8pm on Saturday, April 29, at Central Baptist Church in Oak Ridge. Admission is $16 for adults, $14 for seniors, $5 for students 19 and older, and free for students under 19. For information, call 483-5976.

• UT Orchestra performs Mozart and Beethoven
  Jorge Richter will conduct the UT Symphony Orchestra at 8pm on Monday, May 1, at the UT Music Hall, 1741 Volunteer Blvd. Selections for the final concert of the season will include Mozart's "Overture to the Magic Flute" and Beethoven's "Third Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C Minor, Opus 37." For information, call 974-8935.
  

Special Events Fall 1999

Special Events Spring 1999

• Thursday, March 11, 1999, HSS 113

  Student-Faculty Colloquium Speaker: Karin Schlenker, Ph.D. Candidate in MFL
  "Male/Female Relationships in Lou Andreas Salomé's Story: Eine Ausschweifung

• Tuesday, January 19, Special Lecture, Andrea Vlatten Golato: "Observations of Reported Speech in Spoken German" HSS 107, 3:30 p.m.

• Thursday, January 21, Special Lecture, Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm: "Cross-Cultural Conversational Analysis: An Example of Telephone Openings." HSS 107, 3:30 p.m.

• Tuesday, February 2, Special Lecture, Hiram Maxim: "Reading as the Basis for Foreign Language Learning." HSS 107, 3:30 p.m.

Special Events Fall 1998