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Past Events from 2013 - 2014

Prof J H Reid Jesuits Freemasons and Knights Templar

Date: 09 October 2013
Description: Prof J H Reid Jesuits, Freemasons and Knights Templar (and things that go bump in the night): From Umberto Eco, Dan Brown to Karl Gutzkow's Die Ritter vom Geist'

Dr B Mertens Political Discussions on Collaboration in Belgium (1944-1954)

Date: 30 October 2013
Description: Dr B Mertens 'Political Discussions on Collaboration in Belgium (1944-1954)'

Prof R Woods Ruth Klueger, Walter Kempowski and Victor Klemperer Remembering the War

Date: 13 November 2013
Description: Prof R Woods 'Ruth Klüger, Walter Kempowski and Victor Klemperer Remembering the War'

Screening of Thomas Bernhard's play Heldenplatz

Date: 14 November 2013
Description: Bernhard was no stranger to controversy throughout his life, yet the staging of his play Heldenplatz (1988) was to provoke the biggest scandal of his career. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of its premiere, come and see the DVD recording of the original Burgtheater production on Thursday 14th November 2013.

Dr Alan Scott Competing Literacies in Everyday German Communication

Date: 27 November 2013
Description: Dr Alan Scott 'Competing Literacies in Everyday German Communication'

Prof F Krobb Familienzusammenführungen in der deutschen Abenteuerliteratur über Afrika

Date: 11 December 2013
Description: Prof F Krobb 'Familienzusammenführungen in der deutschen Abenteuerliteratur'

Professor Erica Carter at Nottingham

Date: 05 February 2014
Description: This talk takes as its focus the figure of the fin-de-siècle New Woman in the early film theory of Béla Balázs.

Lauren Selfe Female Muslim Characters

Date: 26 February 2014
Description: Lauren Selfe (Nottingham) 'Female Muslim Characters in German Post-Unification Adolescent Literature'

Writer in Residence 2014 - Sudabeh Mohafez

Date: 01 March 2014
Description: The Department of German Studies is delighted to welcome the author Sudabeh Mohafez as DAAD Writer in Residence from 24.2.-10.3.2014 and her szmposium on 1 March.

Sonya Kirk-Declining Nouns and Inclining Minds

Date: 05 March 2014
Description: Sonya Kirk - 'Declining Nouns and Inclining Minds: Latin Language Education and Character Formation in 19th century England and Prussia'

Cinderella produced by the department for German Studies

Date: 18 - 20 March 2014
Description: German Theatre production at the University of Nottingham takes a new perspective on the story of Cinderella, a fairytale which we thought that we all knew and loved.

Dr Caroline Bland Competing Role Model or Deterrent

Date: 26 March 2014
Description: Dr Caroline Bland 'Competing Role Model or Deterrent? The representation of the female professional in Germany before 1918'

Disprupted Language - Disrupted Culture

Date: 04 April 2014
Description: Professor James Parsons, Missouri State University, USA is giving a talk about Hanns Eisler's Hollywooder Liederbuch (1942-43)

Tom Padden Obligations of the public intellectual

Date: 21 May 2014
Description: Tom Padden 'Obligations of the public intellectual: Politically engaged writers' summits and the West German peace movement (1981-1983)'

Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film and Culture - International Conference

Date: 13 - 15 April 2015
Description: 13-15 April 2015

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