2008-2009 News and Events

Jürgen Brokoff on Avant-garde and Formalism (June 4, 2009 at 5 pm)

Please join us for a lecture by our Alexander-von-Humbolt Fellow, PD Dr. Jürgen Brokoff (Universität Bonn, Germany): "Die Geburt der Literaturtheorie aus dem Material. Avantgardistische Kunstpraxis und formalistische Literaturwissenschaft"

Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 5:00 pm in 912 Sproul. POSTPONED (To be re-scheduled for September)
Reception to follow. Free and open to the public.

Annual German & Russian Undergraduate Awards Ceremony (May 27, 2009 at 4 pm)

On this occasion, the Bracka Scholarship, the Vaage Scholarship, the Carl W. Garbe Scholarship, and Departmental Prizes for Excellence in German and Russian will be awarded.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 4:00 pm in 912 Sproul. Reception to follow. Free and open to the public.

Jürgen Brokoff (Bonn) visits as Humboldt Fellow (April - September 2009)

Dr. habil. Jürgen Brokoff of the University of Bonn (Germany) will visit the Department of German at UC Davis from April through September 2009 as a Feodor-Lynen-Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The second half of his research fellowship year will be spent at Yale University, beginning in October 2009.His main research areas are the history of poetic language since the early 18th century; aesthetic theory; literary theory (the relation of Russian Formalism, New Criticism, and deconstruction); theory and praxis of the Avant-garde; and the relation between literature and politics, including political theology.

Visit Dr. Brokoff's homepage: http://www.uni-bonn.de/~brokoff/index.html

"Stanley Corngold on Kafka and Nietzsche"

Stanley Corngold, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Princeton University, will present a public lecture, "Figures of Consumption in Kafka and Nietzsche," on Friday, March 13, at 12:00 noon in 912 Sproul

Stanley Corngold, a distinguished literary critic and theorist, is the author or editor of a dozen well-known books of literary and cultural criticism. He is best known as the foremost Kafka scholar in the United States. Most recently, he has edited and translated Franz Kafka: The Office Writings (Princeton UP, 2008).

Organized by the Department of German and co-sponsored by Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, the UC Davis Humanities Institute, and English. For more information, contact Prof. Gerhard Richter at . Free and open to the public.

"Interfering Law and Literature: The Case of Woyzeck" Lecture, Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at 5:00 pm in 912 Sproul Hall

Professor Bernhard Greiner, the current Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor in UC Davis's Department of German, will deliver a public lecture entitled "Interfering Law and Literature: The Case of Woyzeck" on Tuesday,December 2, 2008 at 5:00 pm in 912 Sproul Hall.

International Walter Benjamin Conference at UC Davis

The UC Davis Department of German, in conjunction with the "Internationale Walter Benjamin Gesellschaft" ("International Walter Benjamin Society"), located at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany, will host the next Walter Benjamin World Congress. The international conference, which will bring to Davis major scholars and critics from around the globe, will be entitled "Benjamin's Frontiers." It will take place on the Davis campus in November 12-14, 2008. For details, please click here.