Interdisciplinary German Colloquium - Past Events
2006-07
ISLAM-GERMANY CONNECTIONS
Thursday, April 12, 2:00 pm: Lecture: "More than just Food: Currywurst and Doener in Contemporary German Literture and Society," Dr. Heike Henderson, Boise State University, in AH-2134
Tuesday, April 17, 7:00 p.m.: Film Screening: Gegen die Wand (Head On), in AH-1120
Wednesday, April 18, 11:00 a.m.: Lecture: "German Intellectual Orientation to Persia: From French Enlightenment to World Poetry," Amir Irani-Tehrani, New York University, in BA-412
Thursday, April 26, 12:30 p.m.: Lecture: "Breeding Bin Ladens: America, Islam, and the Future of Europe," Dr. Zachary Shore, UC Berkeley and NPS Monterey, in Council Chambers, Aztec Center
2005-06
Reading by author, followed by discussion: Ika Huegel-Marshall, author of Daheim Unterwegs / Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany Thursday, November 10, 2:00 in Scripps Cottage
Film Series: Recent German Film, April 17-20
2004-05
AFRICA-GERMANY CONNECTIONS
Film: Nirgendwo in Afrika/Nowhere in Africa (Link 2001), April 4, 2005
Lecture: "Namibians Raised in East Germany: How they Helped Integrate Ethnic German Institutions in Namibia," Jason Owens, South Dakota State University, April 11
Lecture: "'We are Germans, we are whites, and we want to stay white!': African Germans and Citizenship in the early 20th Century," Fatima El-Tayeb, UC San Diego, April 25
Lecture: "Looking Black, Seeing German: Black Germans and the Politics of Diaspora," Tina Campt, Duke University, April 27
2003-04
GERMAN/AUSTRIAN-JEWISH THEMES
Literary Reading: by Austrian Author Doron Rabinovici, April 19, 2004; co-sponsored by Baron Fund of Lipinsky Institute for Judaic Studies
Film: Introduced by directors: Gita and Kurt Kaufmann, San Diego City Library, Downtown
2002-03
AUSTRIAN FESTIVAL
Literary Reading: by Austrian author Lilian Faschinger, October 7, 2002. Followed by discussion
Film: Sidonie (K. Brandauer 1990) Tuesday, November 12
Literary Reading: by Austrian author Erich Wolfgang Skwara, Wednesday, November 13; followed by discussion
Film: The Inheritors (Ruzowitzky 1998) December 3, 2002
2001-2002
Lecture: "The Homosexual Revival of Rennaissance Style," Yvonne Ivory, Lecturer of German, SDSU
TURKISH-GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL
Film: Short Sharp Shock (Akin 1998) April 15, 2002
Film: I am the Daughter of My Mother April 16, 2002
Film: April Children (Yavuz 1998) April 17, 2002
Film: Geschwister - Brothers and Sisters (Arslan 1997) April 18, 2002
Lecture: "The Turkish-German Ghetto Film," Barbara Mennel, University of Maryland-BC, April 18, 2002
2000-2001
Lecture: "Almost German: Minorities in German Culture," Elise Brayton, Lecturer of German, SDSU, September 27, 2000
Film: Jetzt Leben: Juden in Berlin. Followed by discussion with director, Helma Sanders-Brahms Saturday, October 14, 2000
Lecture: "Borders and Shopping: Business as usual or ever-changing moods: Cross-border shopping behaviour in a Dutch-German border-region," Dr. Martin van der Velde, Nijmegen Centre for Border Research University of Nijmegen, Netherlands November 28, 2000, co-sponsored by Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias, SDSU.
Lecture: "The 9th of November 1989-- The Germans' Happiest Day?" Sabine Twardy, University of Magdeburg Thursday, March 8, 2001.
Film: Test the West. Followed by discussion with director, East German filmmaker, Simone Shoemaker March 29, 2001
Lecture: "Growing up Where Hitler Lived: The Courage to Speak the Truth," Anna Rosmus. Co-sponsored Doris Lipinsky Lecture on Jewish Film, April 26, 2001
Lecture: "Hildegard of Bingen: Exalting the Feminine Realm," Walter Gustafson, MA Candidate, History, SDSU Thursday, May 3
1999-2000
Lecture: "Let us Now Praise German Jewry: The German Jewish Heritage in the United States," Lawrence Baron, Professor of History, SDSU April 26, 2000
Lecture: "A Case of Jewish Ritual Murder Accusation from Fifteenth-century Tyrol," Matt Kuefler, Asst. Professor of History, SDSU February 23, 2000
Lecture: "German and Germany on the Web," Roland Meinert Goethe Institute, San Francisco March 29, 2000
1998-1999