January February
Friday
and Saturday, February 4-5, 2005
"Modernism's
Multiple Media: Text, Image, Sound"
Conference of the German Department
Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street
Sponsored
by the Department of German and co-sponsored by the CGES. View conference description
here. View program
here. Thursday,
February 24, 2005
"Against
a Multicultural Orthodoxy: Toward a New Agenda for German Studies and Minority
Literatures"
B.
Venkat Mani (UW-Madison)
Brownbag Lecture
12:20 pm, 336 Ingraham
View flyer here. March
Friday,
March 11, 2005
"The
Musical Identity of Germans: Continuities and Disruptions in Cultural Citizenship"
Celia Applegate (University of Rochester)
4:00 pm, 1641 Humanities
View flyer here. April
Friday,
April 1, 2005
"Good
Europeans in the 20th Century"
Ute
Frevert (Yale University / Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
3:30
pm, 206 Ingraham
Sponsored
by the CGES and the University Lectures Committee and co-sponsored by the Departments
of History and German and the Women's Studies Research Center. View flyer here. Wednesday,
April 6, 2005
"Rising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural
Change Worldwide"
Pippa Norris (Harvard University)
Brownbag
Lecture co-sponsored by the CGES
12:00 pm, 8417 Social Science
View description here. Friday
and Saturday, April 8-9, 2005
"Ansichten Schillers"
A Symposium Commemorating the 200th
Anniversary of Friedrich Schiller's Death
206
Ingraham Hall (1155 Observatory Drive) and the Pyle Center (701 Langdon Street)
Co-sponsored by the Department
of German. View program here and poster. Friday
and Saturday, April 8-9, 2005
"Constructing the European Higher
Education Area"
Symposium
of the Constructing Knowledge Spaces Initiative
Grainger
Hall, 975 University Avenue
View
description here. View
symposium website
here. Tuesday,
April 12, 2005
"Imperfect
Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor and the Unfinished Business of World War II"
Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat
1:30 pm, Lubar Commons, Law School
View flyer here. Thursday,
April 14, 2005
"Modernist
Miniatures: Literary Snapshots of Urban Spaces"
Andreas
Huyssen (Columbia University)
3:30
pm, 1820 Van Hise
Co-sponsored
by the Department of German and the CGES. View flyer here. Monday,
April 18, 2005
"Simmel
and Mann on the Tragedy of Modern Culture"
Aram
A. Yengoyan (UC-Davis)
12:00
pm, 8417 Social Science
Sponsored
by the Cultural Anthropology Seminar and co-sponsored by the CGES Thursday,
April 28, 2005
"European
Cosmopolitanisms: Literary Sources of the Politics of Recognition"
Andrea Albrecht (Academy of
Sciences, Göttingen)
4:00
pm, 206 Ingraham
Co-sponsored
by the Department of German, Global Studies Program, and the CGES.
View flyer here. May
Monday, May 2,
2005
Special Event
"Political
and Legal Aspects of the New World Order"
Roland
Koch (CDU), Minister President of Hessen
3:00pm,
Pyle Center
Monday
though Wednesday, May 2-4, 2005
German
Play - Theateraufführung auf Deutsch
Albert
Wendt's Der Vogelkopp
7:30
pm, Play Circle, Memorial Union
For
more details and ticket information visit the German Department description.
Lectures
Thursday,
February 24, 2005
"Against
a Multicultural Orthodoxy: Toward a New Agenda for German Studies and Minority
Literatures"
B.
Venkat Mani (UW-Madison)
Brownbag Lecture
12:20 pm, 336 Ingraham
View flyer here. Friday,
March 11, 2005
"The
Musical Identity of Germans: Continuities and Disruptions in Cultural Citizenship"
Celia Applegate (University of Rochester)
4:00 pm, 1641 Humanities
View flyer here.
Friday,
April 1, 2005
"Good
Europeans in the 20th Century"
Ute
Frevert (Yale University / Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
3:30
pm, 206 Ingraham
Sponsored
by the CGES and the University Lectures Committee and co-sponsored by the Departments
of History and German and the Women's Studies Research Center. View flyer here. Wednesday,
April 6, 2005
"Rising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural
Change Worldwide"
Pippa Norris (Harvard University)
Brownbag
Lecture co-sponsored by the CGES
12:00 pm, 8417 Social Science
View description here. Tuesday,
April 12, 2005
"Imperfect
Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor and the Unfinished Business of World War II"
Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat
1:30 pm, Lubar Commons, Law School
View flyer here. Thursday,
April 14, 2005
"Modernist
Miniatures: Literary Snapshots of Urban Spaces"
Andreas
Huyssen (Columbia University)
3:30
pm, 1820 Van Hise
Co-sponsored
by the Department of German and the CGES. View flyer here. Monday,
April 18, 2005
"Simmel
and Mann on the Tragedy of Modern Culture"
Aram
A. Yengoyan (UC-Davis)
12:00
pm, 8417 Social Science
Sponsored
by the Cultural Anthropology Seminar and co-sponsored by the CGES Thursday,
April 28, 2005
"European
Cosmopolitanisms: Literary Sources of the Politics of Recognition"
Andrea Albrecht (Academy of
Sciences, Göttingen)
4:00
pm, 206 Ingraham
Co-sponsored
by the Department of German, Global Studies Program, and the CGES.
View flyer here.
Conferences
and Symposia Friday
and Saturday, February 4-5, 2005
"Modernism's
Multiple Media: Text, Image, Sound"
Conference of the German Department
Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street
View
program
here
The conference,
organized by Marc Silberman (German Department) and Ben Singer (Comm Arts), aims
to facilitate a transatlantic dialogue on the nature and consequences of modernism's
innovations in the technological media. Three senior research fellows from the
Berlin Zentrum für Literaturforschung (Center for Literary Scholarship) will
join three American scholars and six respondents from the UW-Madison campus in
an intense workshop format of commentary and exchange. The research group from
Berlin will present results of their project on the "Archaeology of Modernism:
A New Culture of the Senses," which has focused on issues of perception and
emotions in the strategies of innovation among the avant-gardes during the 1910s
and 1920s. Questions at the center of this dialogue concern the specific order
and hierarchy of the senses in modernist cultural practices and to what extent
they are historically contingent and culturally predetermined. Did new paradigms
for reading, seeing, hearing, and feeling emerge from the experimental aesthetics
of the avant-gardes? Are claims to an epistemological shift - a different kind
of knowledge - viable and verifiable? Inge
Münz-Koenen, Justus Fetscher, and Oksana Bulgakova have examined avant-garde
media aesthetics in Eastern and Western Europe, in particular the interrelations
of image-text-script in artists' books, the theater, and the cinema as parallels
and potentially contributing factors to the changing structure of the senses in
the modern environment. They are currently extending their project into the post
WWII period, focusing now on the relationship of mass media and revenant avant-garde
aesthetics in popular magazines, radio broadcasting, and narrative cinema during
the transition from the "Gutenberg galaxy" to the "pictorial turn."
The three confirmed presenters from American universities were chosen to represent
a spectrum of research on modernism in the United States: Scott Curtis (assistant
professor of film studies, Northwestern University) works on cinematic and intellectual
discourses about technology in the first third of the twentieth century; Lutz
Koepnick (associate professor of German, Washington University) has published
extensively on visuality and sound in German literature and film; Tom Gunning
(professor of film studies, University of Chicago) is an internationally recognized
scholar and theorist of early cinema in Europe and the United States. A number
of colleagues on the Madison campus have been working on issues of the avant-garde,
modernity, and modernism: they will present formal responses to the pre-circulated
papers of the invited speakers as an opening to the ample discussion time structured
into the workshop format.
The
conference is structured in 3 blocks of 3 hours each on Friday afternoon, Saturday
morning, and Saturday afternoon. Each block consists of 2 main presentations of
about 45 minutes, followed by 15-minute responses and 30 minutes of discussion
each. A screening of Dziga Vertov's film "Enthusiasm" (alternate title:
Donbass Symphony) has been proposed for the UW Cinematheque on Friday evening,
February 4. The
American participants have been invited to select 1-2 graduate students from their
respective institutions to accompany them to the conference in order to integrate
the "next generation" into the exchange. Faculty and advanced students
working on European modernism will constitute the audience, drawing from the sponsoring
and co-sponsoring programs as well as from Comparative Literature, English, and
the "Middle Modernism" faculty/student discussion group directed by
Prof. Theresa Kelley (English Department). In addition, this is an excellent opportunity
for colleagues to meet representatives from the Zentrum für Literaturforschung
in Berlin, one of the few internationally oriented European "think tanks"
for literary studies (see www.zfl.gwz-berlin.de/). The conference is scheduled
for Pyle Center with an estimated audience of 35-45.
Friday
and Saturday, April 8-9, 2005
"Ansichten Schillers"
A Symposium Commemorating the 200th
Anniversary of Friedrich Schiller's Death
206
Ingraham Hall (1155 Observatory Drive) and the Pyle Center (701 Langdon Street)
Co-sponsored by the Department of German
View program
here and poster.
The CGES and the Roundtable Lecture
Committee of the Department of German present lectures by Hans Adler, Klaus L.
Berghahn, Jost Hermand and Cora Lee Kluge (UW-Madison) as well as Peter Hoeyng
(University of Tennessee-Knoxville) and Brigitte Jirku (University of Valencia).
Friday
and Saturday, April 8-9, 2005
"Constructing the European Higher
Education Area"
Symposium
of the Constructing Knowledge Spaces Initiative
Grainger
Hall (975 University Avenue)
View
symposium website
here.
The globalization
of higher education and research has become a high profile issue at a range of
scales. Vigorous debates are underway about issues from the implications for education
of the implementation of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), to
trans-Atlantic competition for research-oriented faculty and resources, to model
curricula and pedagogical practices that might engender more cosmopolitan and
creative citizens. One
of the outcomes of the impact of globalization on higher education and research
is the drive to create new "knowledge spaces" at a range of scales.
Examples include global university consortia such as the Worldwide Universities
Network or Universitas 21, the European Higher Education Area, Brand New Zealand,
the Singapore Global Schoolhouse and so on. Many of these knowledge spaces are
being constructed and governed in a transnational sense, both with respect to
the context in which these spaces are being framed and situated, and also with
respect to the institutions that effectively construct and govern these spaces.
For example, the Singapore Global Schoolhouse is a knowledge space that is being
constructed in the context of competition between countries for foreign investment
in the services sector, competition for internationally mobile students and faculty,
the perceived need to create more entrepreneurial and reflexive Singaporeans,
and the need to discursively position Singapore as a creative "knowledge-based"
economy. In practice this new knowledge space is being constructed by the Singaporean
state in alliance with the 10-15 foreign universities (e.g., Duke University,
Johns Hopkins University, INSEAD, MIT) that have established relatively deep commercial
presences in this Southeast Asian city-state since 1998.
In the context of debates about globalization and education, and especially the
construction of new knowledge spaces in a globalizing context, we are hosting
a two day symposium on one of the more fascinating and complex knowledge spaces
that is emerging - the European Higher Education Area. The European Higher Education
Area is the outcome of recent attempts at a number of levels to "create a
European space for higher education in order to enhance the employability and
mobility of citizens and to increase the international competitiveness of European
higher education" (Bologna Declaration, 1999). More
specifically, the objective for this symposium is to generate debate about the
nature, scope, form and tensions associated with the construction of the European
higher education area, and its role in powering the creation of a competitive
and "cohesive" Europe. As implied above it will be useful to highlight
how this new European knowledge space is being constructed and governed in a transnational
sense, both with respect to the context in which this space is being framed and
situated, and also with respect to the institutions that effectively construct
and govern this space. It will also be useful to incorporate discussion about
issues such as institutional capacity, and factors such as "leadership",
in providing the momentum to construct new knowledge spaces. Co-organizers,
Constructing Knowledge Spaces:
Kris Olds (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Susan Robertson (University of
Bristol)
Special
Events Monday,
May 2, 2005
"Political and Legal Aspects
of a New World Order"
Roland
Koch (CDU), Minister President of Hessen
3:30pm,
Pyle Center
View
poster here. Roland
Koch has been involved in politics in the German state of Hessen (Wisconsin's
sister state) since the age of fourteen. In 1987 he was elected to the Hessian
State Parliament as a representative of the Christian Democratic Union and in
1999 he assumed the post of Minister President (governor). The elections of 2003
reinstated him with an absolute majority. His lecture will touch on aspects of
US-German relations. Monday
though Wednesday, May 2-4, 2005
German
Play - Theateraufführung auf Deutsch
Albert
Wendt's Der Vogelkopp
7:30
pm, Play Circle, Memorial Union
For
more details and ticket information visit the German Department description.
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