Seminars & Events
Fall 2009 Spring 2009 Fall 2008 Spring 2008
Fall 2007 Spring 2007 Fall 2006
Fall 2009
Lecture
Monday, November 16, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Temple Court, Room 205
"Cleaning Woman, Forbidden Schoolteacher, Hijab Martyr:
Muslim Women and Headscarves in Contemporary Germany." Beverly Weber, Assistant Professor of German, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Works-in-Progress Discussion
Monday, November 16, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Temple Court, Room 205
"Agency, Performance, and Public Space: The Politics of Race and Gender in German Media Discourses." Maria Stehle, Assistant Professor of German, University of Tennessee.
Film Screening
Thursday, November 5, 7:00pm
Hodges Auditorium
Jud Süss, dir. Veit Harlan (1940) 90 minutes, With subtitles.
Works-in-Progress Discussion
Wednesday, October 28, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Temple Court, Room 205
"'Oh du mein kleines Dorf." Gilya G. Schmidt, Professor of Religious Studies,
University of Tennessee.
Lecture
Wednesday, October 21, 1:15pm - 2:15pm
Temple Court, Room 205
"Perpetrators, Bystanders, Victims: Motivation, Action, and Inaction During the Holocaust." Robert M. Ehrenreich, Director of University Programs, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (Co-Sponsored by the Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Program in Judaic Studies and the Campus Outreach Lecture Program of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, supported by the generosity of Dr. Alan Solomon and Andrea Cartwright).
Works-in-Progress Discussion
Friday, October 2, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Large Conference Room, History Department, 6th floor, Dunford Hall
"Religious Nationalism and Social Work: German Templers, Jews, and Arabs in Ottoman Palestine, 1881-1898” by Jake Hamric, Ph.D Candidate, Department of History, University of Tennessee
Film Screening
Thursday, October 1, 7:00pm
Hodges Auditorium
The Last Laugh [Der letzte Mann] dir. F.W. Murnau (1924) 91 minutes, silent.
Works-in-Progress Discussion
Wednesday, September 30, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Temple Court, Room 205
"German Army Rabbis on the Eastern Front" by Tracey Hayes, Ph.D Candidate, Department of History, University of Tennessee
Film Screening
Thursday, September 3, 7:00pm
Hodges Auditorium
Unveiled [Fremde Haut] dir. Angelina Maccarone (2005), 97 minutes, w/ subtitles.
Lecture
Wednesday, April 29, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Mary Greer Room (2nd Floor), Hodges Library
"Narrative Form and Historical Sensation: On Saul Friedländer's The Years of Extermination" by Dr. Alon Confino, Professor in the Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia
Works-in-Progress Discussion
Wednesday, April 29, 2:30pm - 3:15pm
Mary Greer Room (2nd Floor), Hodges Library
Discussion of "Nature in a Local Microcosm: Local Audiences, the Unity of Knowledge, and the Cultural Politics of Place, 1815-1830" by Denise Phillips, Assistant Professor of History, University of Tennessee
Respondent: Dr. Alon Confino, Professor in the Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia
Book Discussion
Wednesday, April 8, 12:15pm
Temple Court, Room 205
Discussion of Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life
by Deborah Coen, led by Dr. Denise Phillips, Assistant Professor of History, University of Tennessee
Lecture
Monday, March 30, 5:00pm
Hodges Library, Room 253
"Criss-Crossing in Global Space and Time: Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven" by
Dr. Barbara Mennel, Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and in the Department of English, University of Florida
Film Screening - Double Feature
The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite ) Dir., Fatih Akin (2007)
and
Exiles (Exils) Dir., Tony Gatlif (2004)
Thursday, March 26, 6:30pm
Hodges Library Auditorium
Works-in-Progress Discussion
Wednesday, March 30, 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Temple Court, Room 205
Discussion of "Traps, Cycles, and Alternative Spaces: The Politics of Space in the Ghettocetnric Films Dealer and Kanak Attack" by Dr. Maria Stehle, Assistant Professor of German, University of Tennessee
Respondent: Dr. Barbara Mennel, Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and in the Department of English, University of Florida
Book Discussion
Wednesday, November 12, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Temple Court, Room 205
Discussion of Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father's German Village, by
Mimi Schwartz
Works-in-Progress Discussion
Wednesday, October 29, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Temple Court, Room 205
Discussion of "Alive In Order To Die: German-Jewish Cemetery Books and the Construction of a German-Jewish Ontology" by Dr. Daniel H. Magilow, Assistant Professor of German, The University of Tennessee
Respondent: Dr. Sven-Erik Rose, Assistant Professor of French and Italian, Miami University of Ohio
Lecture
Wednesday, October 29, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Temple Court, Room 205
“Karl Marx’s ‘Real Jews’: Abjection and the Grounding of Radical Social Critique”
Dr. Sven-Erik Rose, Assistant Professor of French and Italian, Miami University of Ohio
Works-in-Progress Discussion
Friday, September 5, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Temple Court, Room 205
Discussion of Suezza - No Grazing Land For Jews, Book Manuscript by Dr. Gilya G. Schmidt, Professor and head of Religious Studies, The University of Tennessee
Respondent: Dr. Andrew Bergerson, Associate Professor of History, The University of
Missouri, Kansas City
Lecture
Tuesday, September 5, 1:30pm
Black Cultural Center
"Cultivating Impunity in Nazi Germany: How Ordinary People Tried to Get Away with Murder" by Dr. Andrew Bergerson, Associate Professor of History, The University of Missouri, Kansas City
Spring 2008
Lecture
Tuesday, January 8, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Temple Court, Room 205
Discussion of "The New Gelehrten: Learned Status and the Rejection of Enlightenment
Utilitarianism" by Dr. Denise Phillips, Assistant Professor of History, The University
of Tennessee
Respondent: Dr. Ann Johnson, Asst. Professor of History, The University of
South Carolina
Lecture
- (Rescheduled from last November)
Tuesday, January 8, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Temple Court, Room 205
Dr. Ann Johnson, Asst. Professor of History, The University of South Carolina,
"The Invention of a Pure Science Ideal in 19th Century Germany: A Comparison
with the US Case"
Mini-Colloquium on Visual Culture
Wednesday, March 12, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Temple Court, Room 205
Discussion of "'Stop Reading, Look!': The Photo-Essays of Weimar Germany,"
by Dr. Daniel H. Magilow, Assistant Professor of German, The University of Tennessee
Respondent: Dr. Eric Kligerman, Assistant Professor of German,
The University of Florida
and
"Adorno and Arendt, Auschwitz and Abu Ghraib: American Horror Cinema's
Obsession with Torture" by Dr. Eric Kligerman, Assistant Professor of German,
The University of Florida
Discussion and Lecture
Wednesday, March 26, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Hodges Library, Room 258 (Faculty Lounge)
Discussion of "Composing the Party Line: Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland
and East Germany", by Dr. David Tompkins, Assistant Professor of History, The
University of Tennessee
Respondent: Dr. John Connelly, Associate Professor of History, The University of
California, Berkeley
and
Wednesday, March 26, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Hodges Library, Room 258 (Faculty Lounge)
Dr. John Connelly, Associate Professor of History, The University of California,
Berkeley, "Catholic Racism: The German Syndrome."
Lecture
Friday, April 4, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Black Cultural Center
Dr. Larry Wolff, Professor of History, New York University
"Kennst du das Land?
The Uncertainty of Galicia in the Age of Metternich and Fredro"
Book Discussion
Wednesday, April 16, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Temple Court, Room 205
Book Discussion of The Jewish Enemy by Jeffrey Herf and Erased: Vanishing Traces of
Jewish Galicia in Present Day Ukraine by Omer Bartov
Moderated by Dr. Gilya G. Schmidt, Professor of Religion, The University of Tennessee
Lecture
Tuesday, April 22, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Black Cultural Center
Dr. Jeffrey Herf, Professor of History, University of Maryland
"'The Jewish Enemy': Nazi Propaganda in Germany and the Middle East
During World War II and the Holocaust"
Brown Bag Lecture
Monday, April 28, 12:00pm
Temple Court, Room 205
Dr. Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and
Professor of German Studies, Brown University
"The Holocaust from Below: Testimonies as Historical Documents"
Lecture
Monday, April 28, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Black Cultural Center
Dr. Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and
Professor of German Studies, Brown University
"Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine "
Fall 2007
Session #1a
Wednesday, September 19, 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Temple Court, Room 205
Dr. David Lee, Associate Professor of German, UT
"Amor in Armor: Gleim's Anacreontic Poetry and the Problem of Violence"
Respondant: John A. McCarthy, Professor of German & Comparative Literature,
Vanderbilt University
Session #1b
Wednesday, September 19, 4:00pm
Temple Court, Room 205
John A. McCarthy, Professor of German & Comparative Literature,
Vanderbilt University
"The Female Body, the Rococo, and Its Self-Overcoming."
Session #2
Wednesday, October 31, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Temple Court, Room 205
Discussion of "German History after the Visual Turn"
moderated by Dr. Daniel H. Magilow, Asst. Professor of German, The University
of Tennessee
Session #3a
Wednesday, November 28, 12:15pm - 1:15pm - Rescheduled - Tuesday January 8
Temple Court, Room 205
Discussion of ""The New Gelehrten: Learned Status and the Rejection of Enlightenment
Utilitarianism"by Dr. Denise Phillips, Assistant Professor of History, The University
of Tennessee
Respondent: Dr. Ann Johnson, Asst. Professor of History, The University of
South Carolina
Session #3b
Wednesday, November 28, 4:00pm - 5:00pm - Rescheduled - Tuesday January 8
Temple Court, Room 205
Dr. Ann Johnson, Asst. Professor of History, The University of South Carolina,
"The Invention of a Pure Science Ideal in 19th Century Germany: A Comparison
with the US Case"
Session #4
Monday, December 3, 4:45pm
"Graduate Student Research Presentations in German Studies"
4:45pm, 6th Floor Dunford Hall
(Specifics on future events to be added soon. Please check back!)
Spring 2007
Session #6
Wednesday, January 17, 4:00pm
Faculty Lounge, Hodges Library
Introduction to the Research Seminar and an Appreciation of the newly-acquired Corvey
Collection. Supported by Hodges Library.
Film
Monday, January 22, 7:30pm
Hodges Library Auditorium
Aimée & Jaguar (1999) dir. Max Färberböck, w/ subtitles.
Session #7
Wednesday, February 14, 4:00pm
Temple Court, Room 205
Book discussion of Celia Applegate’s Bach in Berlin: Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn’s
Revival of the ‘St. Matthew Passion’, led by Denise Phillips and David Tompkins, Professors
of History, The University of Tennessee.
Lecture and Film Screening -
An Afternoon with Ika Hügel-Marshall (download flyer / for more information, click here)
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Hodges Library Auditorium, 3:30pm
Reading / discussion of Invisible Woman: Growing up Black in Germanyby Ika Hügel Marshall
Faculty Lounge, Hodges Library, 4:30pm
Reception
Hodges Library Auditorium, 5:00pm
Screening of Hope in my Heart: Oral Poetry - May Ayim. Followed by a discussion with
Dagmar Schultz and Ika Hügel Marshall
Film
Monday, February 26, 8:00pm
Hodges Library Auditorium
Das Leben der Anderen (2006) dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, in German.
Session #8
Wednesday, February 28, 4:00pm
Temple Court, Room 205
Gilya Schmidt, Professor of Religious Studies and Chair, The Fern and Manfred Steinfeld
Program in Judaic Studies, The University of Tennessee,
“Requisitions—Restitution—Reparations: The Story of the ‘Judenhaus’ in Suessen.”
Lecture
Wednesday, March 21, Noon
Tyson Alumni House
Daniel H. Magilow, The University of Tennessee, “Recreational Violence: Hermann
Goering’s Hunting Albums.” Hosted by the Humanities Initiative Committee.
Session #9
Wednesday, March 21, 4:00pm
Black Cultural Center
Carole Fink, Professor of History, The Ohio State University, “Israel and West Germany:
The Transformation of a ‘Special Relationship,’ 1969-1974.” Co-sponsored with the
Department of History.
Professor Fink will also lead a discussion of her book, Defending the Rights of Others: The
Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938 at 1:30 in the
History Conference Room, 6th Floor Dunford Hall.
Film
Thursday, March 22, 7:00pm
Hodges Library Auditorium
Im weiter Ferne, so nah! (1993) dir. Wim Wenders, w/ subtitles.
Film
Thursday, March 29, 8:00pm
Hodges Library Auditorium
Herr Lehmann (2003) dir. Leander Haußmann, w/ subtitles.
Session #10
Wednesday, April 4, 4:00pm
Temple Court, Room 205
Bernhard Martin, Professor of German, Tufts University, “Dungeons and Dragons: The
Medieval Roots of National Identity.” - CANCELLED
Film
Wednesday, April 11, 8:00pm
Hodges Library Auditorium
Sommer vorm Balkon (2005 dir. Andreas Dresen, w/ subtitles.
Session #11
Wednesday, April 18, 4:00pm
Temple Court, Room 205
Charles Ingrao, Professor of History, Purdue University,
“Germany’s Early Modern Sonderweg.”
Research Workshop
Dr. Todd Kontje, University of San Diego
Thomas Mann's 'Wälsungsblut': The Married Artist and the Jewish Question
Wednesday, April 25, 2007, 3:30-5:15pm, 1210/1211 McClung Tower
(Research Workshop preceded by informal coffee with Dr. Kontje in 1210/1211 McClung Tower; free coffee and bagels) For more information click here.
Lecture
Friday, April 27, 2007, 3:30-5:00pm, Hodges Library Auditorium
Todd Kontje, Professor of German, University of San Diego
"The Future of the Humanities from the Perspective of German Studies"
Respondents: Dr. Robert C. Holub, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UT
Dr. Carolyn Hodges, Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School, UT
(Lecture preceded by a reception at 2:30pm, Hodges Library Faculty Lounge - Room 258) Download Flier here.
Lecture
Wednesday, September 6, Noon |
East Tennessee Historical Society
Professor Gilya Schmidt, The University of Tennessee, “Recovering Small Town German-
Jewish Life: The Instance of Suessen.”
Lecture
Wednesday, September 6, Noon
Tyson Alumni House
Professor Vejas Liulevicius, The University of Tennessee, “The German Myth of the East.” Hosted by the Humanities Initiative Committee.
Lecture
Sunday, September 10, 3:00pm
East Tennessee Historical Society
Professor Daniel Magilow, The University of Tennessee, “The Short Life and Death of
Kitty Weichherz (1929-1942).”
Film
Monday, September 11, 7:00pm
Hodges Library Auditorium
Happy Birthday, Türke (1992) dir. Doris Dörrie, in German.
Seminar #1
Wednesday, September 13, 4:00pm
Temple Court, Room 205
Orientation and Introduction to the Faculty Research Seminar, including discussion of Dan
Diner, "Knowledge of Expansion: On the Geopolitics of Karl Haushofer" led by Professor
Vejas Liulevicius.
Seminar #2
Wednesday, September 27, 4:00pm
Temple Court, Room 205
Roundtable Discussion of the “Living On” lectures of Professors Gilya Schmidt and Daniel
Magilow. (attendance at prior lectures encouraged but not necessary).
Download Magilow Paper | Slides
Download Schmidt Paper | Slides
Lecture
Tuesday, October 3, 3:30pm
Hodges Library 258 (Faculty Lounge)
Dr. Robert Holub, Professor of German and Provost, The University of Tennessee,
"Nietzsche and Eugenics." (Download Flier)
Lecture
Wednesday, October 4, 3:30pm
Black Cultural Center
Dr. Albert Guaffo, Professor of German , University of Dschang (Cameroon),
"Migrationsliteratur und interkulturelles Lernen: Zu ihrer Bedeutung im Fach Deutsch als
Fremdsprache in Deutschland unter Berücksichtigung Afrikas." Lecture in German.
Download Flier | Abstract
Film
Monday, October 16, 7:00pm
Hodges Library Auditorium
Nirgendwo in Afrika (2001) dir. Caroline Link, w/ subtitles.
Seminar #3
Wednesday, October 25, 4:00pm
Temple Court, Room 205
Book discussion of Todd Kontje’s German Orientalisms, led by Professors Vejas Liulevicius
and Stefanie Ohnesorg.
Seminar #4
Wednesday, November 8, 4:00pm
Temple Court, Room 205
Research Presentation by Tony Steinhoff, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga,
“In Search of a More Perfect Union: Alsace-Lorraine and Imperial Germany, 1870-1918.”
Lecture
Tuesday, November 14, 4:00pm
Hodges Library 258 (Faculty Lounge)
Dr. Kamaal Haque, Lecturer, The University of Tennessee "Goethe and Arabic Calligraphy."
(Download Flier)
Film
Monday, November 20, 7:00pm
Hodges Library Auditorium
Alles auf Zucker (2004) dir. Dani Lévy, w/ subtitles.
Seminar #5
Wednesday, November 29, 4:00pm
Temple Court, Room 205
Research Presentation by Denise Phillips, The University of Tennessee, “Science and
Liberalism in Germany, 1820-1850.”
