March 14,  2007

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UPCOMING EVENTS

* German Film at Boardman's Art Theater

Boardman's Art Theater in downtown Champaign will be screening "Das Leben der Anderen" (The Lives of Others) starting March 16, 2007, for a two-week run.  "Das Leben der Anderen" was this year's Academy Award winner for best foreign language film, and winner of the best picture, best screenwriter, and best actor award at the European Film Awards.  For more information (incl. the NY Times review): http://www.boardmansarttheatre.com/

Please also pass this on to your students!

* Swedish Film

The Spring 2007 Landscape Architecture Film Series will screen Lasse Hallström, "My Life as a Dog" (Sweden, 1985, 101 m) on Wednesday, March 28, at 7:30 pm

Plym Auditorium
134 Temple Buell Hall
Free Admission

* "Deutscher Filmabend - mit englischen Untertiteln" continues on March 29 at 7pm: "Sophie Scholl" (Marc Rothemund, 2005) in FLB G-17.

* LAS Mellon State of the Art Conference, March 29-31, 2007

“Gender Matters:
Re-Reading Violence, Death, and Gender in Early Modern Literature and Culture” is built around the two-week visit to our campus of Mellon Distinguished Professor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly from March 26-April 7, 2007.

In addition to the graduate seminar built around her visit and the conference topic (GER 572), Professor Watanabe-O'Kelly will present the keynote address, “The Figure of Judith in the Early Modern Imagination—Liberator, Murderer, Seductress” at the conference on Thursday, March 29, at 5:15 PM in the Illini Union, 210 General Lounge.  The lecture will be followed by a public concert by the Early Music group Gravitacion from Millikin University.  The entire department is invited to the reception following the event at 8:30 PM in the 210 Illini Union. Please rsvp by March 19 to mwade@uiuc.edu and
mmarkin2@uiuc.edu.

"Gender Matters" features 28 scholarly papers by external speakers as well as early modern faculty from UIUC, including a younger scholars' panel.  On Saturday, March 31 at 1 PM in Smith Memorial Hall there will be a second concert of Renaissance music featuring Arte Bella, “L’Amour vengé: Love and Revenge in Cantatas and Airs of the Baroque.”

For conference details please see:
http://www.germanic.uiuc.edu/events/genderconference.html

* The Linguistics Student Organization is proud to announce two lectures by distinguished linguist Prof. William Labov:

"The growing divergence of English dialects in North America," Wednesday, April 4th, 2007, at 7pm on the third floor of the Levis Faculty Center. This talk is intended for a campus-wide public.

"Crossing the great divide in North American phonology", Thursday, April 5th, at 4pm, (same location). This talk is more aimed at a linguistic audience.

Prof. Labov will also appear on 'Focus 580' with David Inge on Thursday morning at 10:00.


* The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures invites you to its monthly lecture series "Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft" (FG).

Distinguished Visiting Professor Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly, German, Oxford University, presents a scholarly lecture "Amazons in German - from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment."

Thursday, April 5, at 5.15 PM in the Lucy Ellis Lounge, 2090 FLB.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Mary DeGuire passed the preliminary exams for the PhD.  She will start working on a dissertation on Intertextuality in Goethe's 'Leiden des jungen Werther' and its Reception in the GDR.

Francien Markx, who received her PhD. in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures in 2003, has accepted a tenure-track offer from George Mason University / Washington DC.

WEEKLY DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES

* The Deutsche Konversationsgruppe meets each Wednesday from 2-4 at The Bread Company on Goodwin. Students of all levels are welcome. Instructors of German courses, please let your students know about this opportunity to get extra German practice in an informal, no-pressure setting. More information is available from Frederick Schwink (schwink AT uiuc DOT edu).

* The Scandinavian Coffee Hour meets every Wednesday from 4-6 PM at the Bread Company on Goodwin Street. All speakers of any level of modern Scandinavian languages are welcome to attend. Contact: jfeason AT uiuc DOT edu.

* The IPRH Reading Group "Language and Social Interaction" holds its weekly data session Mondays, 4-5:30, in 3114 FLB.  Anybody with a background or an interest in conversation analysis is welcome to attend.  For more information, contact Professor Andrea Golato golato AT uiuc DOT edu

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