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St. Louis Symposium on German Literature and Culture
The Eighteenth St. Louis Symposium on German Literature and Culture, entitled "After the Digital Divide? German Aesthetic Theory in the Age of New Media" will take place at Washington University in St. Louis from March 30 to April 1, 2006.
The aim of this conference is to investigate the legacy of German aesthetic theory as seen against the spreading background of digital culture since the 1990s. Similar to the critics of the Weimar era, the speakers of this conference not only explore the continued viability of older critical concepts, they also contemplate the contemporary status of aesthetic thought in the first place. Rather than to play out the new against the old, the task of this conference is to think about the past, present, and future of the aesthetic as structured by critical differences, complex transactions, and meaningful alternatives.
the symposium is free and open to the public. For more information, or to register, please call (314) 935-5106 or email jjodell@wustl.edu by March 1, 2006.
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Konrad Adenauer Chair Lecture Series |
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The BMW Center for German & European Studies is pleased to announce its Spring 2006 program celebrating the 30th anniversary of the
Konrad Adenauer Chair
Lecture Series:
Jost Dülffer, Konrad Adenauer Visiting Professor
"European Zeitgeschichte: History and Memory?"
January 25, 2006
Helga Haftendorn, Free University Berlin (1977 Adenauer Visiting Professor)
"NATO: Is the Transatlantic Transmission Belt Still Working?"
March 29, 2006
Klaus Schwabe, Aachen Technical University (1990 Adenauer Visiting Professor)
"US Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century: A European Perspective"
April 5, 2006
Academic Conference:
"Western Integration, German Unification and the Cold War: The Adenauer Era in Perspective"
Riggs Library, March 24-25, 2006
RSVP by visiting http://www12.georgetown.edu/sfs/rsvp/cges
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Yiddish: A Diasporic Path to Modernity |
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April 9, 2006
Princeton University
This international colloquium will be held at Princeton University on April 9, 2006. It will bring together scholars of Yiddish linguistics and literature as well as historians to engage in a discussion that investigates the role of Yiddish as the Ashkenazi language of diaspora on the threshold to modernity. In particular, the conference aims to
- provide significant new insights into the specific characteristics of the transition to modernity between Frankfurt and Prague, Berlin and Amsterdam;
- shed new light on the similarities as well as differences in the processes of modernization that can be observed in Italy, Poland-Lithuania, the German-speaking countries and the Netherlands;
- sharpen notions of "tradition" and "modernity" in the Ashkenazi world;
-rethink the dialectics of self-assertion and transculturation in the Jewish diaspora.
For more information, please visit www.princeton.edu/~sf/workshops/yiddish/
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Conflicting Memories and European Integration |
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April 20-21, 2006
New York University
While all European countries share experiences of terror and war, each country has its own multifaceted picture of historical myths and representation. Conflicting memories have existed for a long time but became more visible and of acute political importance since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. The conference is intended to foster dialogue between distinguished historians and politicians from several European member states and from the US. Participants will analyze the situation with respect to national and supranational discourses on history and memory. They will try to find answers on how to overcome great deficits in the integration process, which - for example - became obvious by the disapproval of the consitution in several countries. The participants will also discuss institutional premises of the European Integration, Human Rights and the reference to the Holocaust in the decisions of the European institutions.
The conference will open on Thursday, April 20, with a keynote speech by Klaus Haensch, Former President of the European Parliament, member of the European Parliament, on "Reflections on the Constitution." The venue is the King Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South, New York.
For further information, please contact Professor Sibylle Quack, Max Weber Chair, Center for European Studies, New York University, 212-998-3717.
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