CGES Midwest: Events

Thursday, March 2, 2006
"The Turkish Turn in Contemporary German Literature: Toward a New Critical Grammar of Migration"
Leslie Adelson
Department of German Studies, Cornell University
5:00 pm, 206 Ingraham Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of German & the Center for European Studies, and the Mellon Workshop Cosmopolitan Cultures, Cosmopolitan Histories
About the lecture: "Between two worlds is the rhetorical conceit most often conjured to situate migrants and the cultures they produce or inspire. As part and parcel of a core cultural fable for the age of globalization, it marks an imagined encounter with the material history of modern migration. Because it suggests that worlds remain stable while unstable migrants move uncertainly between them, however, this explanatory model does more to assuage anxieties about worlds, nations, and networks in flux than it does to grasp the cultural innovations that migration engenders. Breaking ranks with the language of identity, origin, and loss that underwrites this model in the popular imagination and across academic disciplines, The Turkish Turn begins to articulate a new critical grammar for understanding the cultural effects of migraiton at a pivotal and still inadequately charted moment in German culture and transnational modernities. If the literature of migration is no longer situated in any predictable sense between two worlds, then where might it be located, and what is it doing there? The lecture on the Turkish turn in German literature begins with some methodological reflections and then concentrates on an innovative short story written by Emine Sevgi Özdamar at the century's end."

Friday & Saturday, March 3-4, 2006
The 8th Annual GDGSA Conference: "Voices Throughout the Ages: Expression, Development, and Authenticity in the German Language"
Presented and organized by the Graduate Students (GDGSA) in the Department of German
The Pyle Center
To access the schedule for the 2006 GDGSA Conference, click here

Thursday, March 21, 2006
"Fist Fighting Females! Weimar Women's Boxing between Sensationalism and Sport"
Erik Jensen
Department of History, Miami University of Ohio
12:20 pm, 336 Ingraham Hall

Monday, March 27, 2006
"German-Japanese Collaboration in the Development of Bacteriological and Chemical Weapons and the War in China"
Bernd Martin
Department of History, University of Freiburg, Germany
12:00 pm, Wisconsin Veterans Museum
Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies, the Center for European Studies, and the Department of History

Monday, March 27, 2006
"Luigi Nono: From Political Engagement to the New Prometheus"
Nicola Sani, Italian Composer of Contemporary Music
4:00 pm, School of Music, 2441 Mosse Humanities
Lecture will be held in English
Sponsored by the Center for European Studies, the School of Music, the Anonymous Fund, the Department of French & Italian, and the Instituto Italiano di Cultura - Chicago (www.iicch.org). For more information on the artist, click here

Tuesday, March 28, 2006
"The Warsaw Uprising 1944 - the View from the German Side"
Bernd Martin
Department of History, University of Freiburg, Germany
7:00 pm, The Red Gym
Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies, the Center for European Studies, and the Department of History

Tuesday, March 28, 2006
"Recent Trends in New Italian Music: From Electro-Accoustic to Intermedia Works"
Nicola Sani, Italian Composer of Contemporary Music
2:30 pm, 254 Van Hise Hall
Lecture will be held in English
Sponsored by the Center for European Studies, the School of Music, the Anonymous Fund, the Department of French & Italian, and the Instituto Italiano di Cultura - Chicago (www.iicch.org). For more information on the artist, click here

Tuesday, March 28, 2006
“Nicola Sani: Between Sound and Image” - A program of videos presented by Nicola Sani.
Nicola Sani, Italian Composer of Contemporary Music
6:00 – 8:00pm, 104 Van Hise Hall
Lecture will be held in English
Sponsored by the Center for European Studies, the School of Music, the Anonymous Fund, the Department of French & Italian, and the Instituto Italiano di Cultura - Chicago (www.iicch.org). For more information on the artist, click here

Videos include:

"Non tutte le isole hanno intorno il mare", music by Nicola Sani, video by
Mario Sasso, RAISAT Productions, 2000. 52 mins.

"Noto-Mandorli-Vulcano-Stromboli-Carnevale", short feature by Michelangelo
Antonioni, with music by Nicola Sani, ENEL Production, 1992, 10 mins.

"Footprint", Video by Mario Sasso and Nicola Sani, Ars Electronica Prize 1990,
RAISAT Productions, 1990, 3 mins.

"Spargimento", Opera for music and dance by Nicola Sani, texts by Erri De
Luca, choreography by Laura Balis and Cinzia Romiti - Compagnia Corte Sconta,
Milano, Video direction by di Kiko Stella, Corte Sconta Productions, 1998, 15 mins.

Video extracts from Video Installations by Mario Sasso and Nicola Sani (10 mins):
"La Torre delle Trilogie" Guggenheim Prize, 1999
"Omaggio a Giacomo Leopardi," Quadriennale Roma, 1998
"Le città continue/La stanza di Vertov" Berlino Sonambiente, 1996.

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

"Political Engagement and Democracy in Italian Avant-Garde Music"...a CES Brownbag Lecture

Nicola Sani, Italian Composer of Contemporary Music

12:00 – 1:00pm, 67 Bascom Hall
Lecture will be held in English

Sponsored by the Center for European Studies, the School of Music, the Anonymous Fund, the Department of French & Italian, and the Instituto Italiano di Cultura - Chicago (www.iicch.org). For more information on the artist, click here

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

"The Musical Composition of Nicola Sani: Approaching Multiplicity."

Nicola Sani, Italian Composer of Contemporary Music

3:15 – 4:30pm, School of Music, 2551 Mosse Humanities
Lecture will be held in English

Thursday, March 30, 2006
"Bleibt deutsch! Deutsch-kanadische Identitätssuche im Spiegel des Berliner Journals"
Anne Loechte
Waterloo Centre for German Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada
4:00 pm, 1418 Van Hise Hall
Sponsored by the Department of German
About the lecture: Das Berliner Journal (1859-1918) war lange Zeit die grőßte deutschsprachige Zeitung Kanadas. Es zeichnete sich sowohl durch seine űberregionale Reichweite als auch seine lange Erscheinungsdauer aus. Fast 60 Jahre lang erschien das Journal wőchentlich in Berlin (spatter Kitchener ), bevor es 1918 im Zuge des Ersten Weltkriegs verboten wurde. Durch die Erscheinungsjahre des Berliner Journals zieht sich die Auseinandersetzung mit Aufgabe und Stellung der eingewanderten Deutschen in Kanada. In ihrem erklärten Selbstverständnis als „Förderer deutschen Kulturwesens“ war den Herausgebern des Berliner Journals daran gelegen, eine – wie auch immer geartete – deutsche kulturelle Identität aufrechtzuerhalten. Das beinhaltete in erster Linie die Pflege deutscher Sprache, Sitten und Gebräuche. Moderates Trinkverhalten, die sprichwőrtliche Geműtlichkeit und der Gesang stellten die vielbeschworenen Inbegriffe deutscher Kultur dar. Aber auch die Anteilnahme an den politischen Entwicklungen der alten Heimat war groß. Mit glűhendem Patriotismus verfolgte das Journal den deutsch-franzősischen Krieg und die Reichsgrűndung 1870/71. Allerdings verstanden sich die Herausgeber auch als loyale Bűrger Kanadas, die die Vorzűge ihres „Adoptivvaterlandes“ zu schätzen wussten. Diese doppelte Loyalität sollte mit Beginn des Ersten Weltkrieges jedoch auf eine harte Probe gestellt werden.