March 28,  2007

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UPCOMING EVENTS

* German Film at Boardman's Art Theater

Boardman's Art Theater in downtown Champaign is screening "Das Leben der Anderen" (The Lives of Others) until March 29, Thursday. "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/

* 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 of Oxford University 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 AT uiuc DOT edu and mmarkin2 AT uiuc DOT 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

* Announcing two lectures by Dr. Ekkehard Henschke, Oxford, former Director of the University Library, Leipzig

Leipzig University Library and its Renaissance since the "Wende" in 1989/90
Monday, April 2, 10:00-11:00 a.m., 428 Library

The lecture will deal with the general aspects of the peaceful change in East Germany in 1989/90 as well as with the organizational and building reconstruction phase of Leipzig University Library since this change.

Sponsored by GSLIS and Germanic Languages and Literatures

From Mount Sinai to the Internet: The Codex Sinaiticus Project
Thursday, April 5, 4:00 p.m., 4080A FLB

The Codex Sinaiticus Project was the last big joint venture Dr. Henschke was able to promote before his retirement in 2005. This joint venture concerning the oldest Greek manuscript of the bible will include the digitization and scholarly examination of all parts which were dispersed since the fourth century. These are the partners: British Library London, National Library of Russia St. Petersburg, St. Catherine's Monastery near Mount Sinai in Egypt and Leipzig University Library.

Sponsored by Religious Studies and Germanic Languages and Literatures

* 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.

PRESENTATIONS

* Anke Pinkert gave a paper entitled “Postwar Phantoms: Public Memory and Film in East Germany – Konrad Wolf’s I was Nineteen (1968)” at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies in Chicago on March 10. The paper was part of a panel on “Filming German History.”

* Professor Mara Wade co-organized and presented at the capstone workshop on Emblem Digitization at the Herzog August Bibliothek (HAB), Wolfenbuettel, March 14-16, 2007.  This was the final event in the three-year long Alexander von Humboldt TransCoop grant which she held with Dr. Thomas Staecker of the  HAB.  Tom Kilton of the UIUC library also presented a paper, while Molly Markin was the graduate assistant for the workshop.  The  14  participants came from Munich, Kiel, Utrecht, Glasgow, Tours, Urbana, and Wolfenbuettel.

* Yasemin Yildiz presented the paper "Multilingualism and Memory: Emine Sevgi Özdamar's Translational Aesthetics" at the conference "Culture et mémoire: quelles représentations?" at the École Polytechnique in Paris, France on March 24, 2007.

PUBLICATIONS

* Rochelle Wright has published "Swedish Film and Germany, 1933-1945," in _Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema_, eds. Roel Vande Winkel and David Welch (Basingstoke, GB and New York: Palgrave Macmilllan, 2007): 265-275.

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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