Die Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft
Founded in 1946 as successor to the earlier
Journal Club, the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft is our
monthly departmental lecture series. It usually meets
on the first Thursday of every month during the semester
at 5:15 PM in the Lucy Ellis
Lounge of the Foreign Languages Building (unless
otherwise noted).
| Spring 2007 |
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March 1 at 5:15 pm
Prof. Richard Schade, University of Cincinnati
"The Onion Has Many Layers: On
Günter Grass's Memoir Beim Häuten der Zwiebel"
Photo: Grass and Schade in Luebeck, "Beim Häuten der Zwiebel" at the Ready (Dec. 2006)
WORKSHOP Prof. Schade will conduct a workshop on academic publishing for faculty
and graduate students in FLB. All are invited to take advantage of Prof. Schade's
expertise in publishing, particularly in peer-reviewed journals. No registration
required.
Friday, March 2, 9-11 AM in 2090b Foreign Languages Building |
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February 1 at 5:15 PM
Prof. Hania Siebenpfeiffer, Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor of German at UIUC/ Universität Münster.
"Optik, Erkenntnis und Erfahrung in Kants 'Träume eines Geistersehers'" |
| Fall 2006 |
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September 7 at 5:15pm
Prof. Stephen Jaeger will lecture on Thomas Mann's Joseph novels |
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| Spring 2006 |
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Thursday, April 20, 2006 7:30 p.m. General Lounge, Illini Union
Lecture followed by Celebration in Honor of
Professor Shelley Wright
Lecture by Prof. Wright: "Ibsen Transcreations in Iran and India"
Following the lecture, there will be a celebration
Honoring
Professor Wright
On the Occasion of Her Retirement
at 8:30 p.m.
Colonial Room, Illini Union
The event is sponsored by the Department of Germanic
Languages & Literatures, the Unit for Cinema Studies, the
Program in Jewish Culture and Society, the Program in
Comparative & World Literature, and IPRH. |
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April 6, 5:30 Lucy Ellis
Prof. Jens Richard Giersdorf
Dept. of Dance Studies, Univ. of Surrey/UK "Why does Charlotte von Mahlsdorf curtsy?
Representations of national queerness in a
transvestite hero." April 5: Workshop with Prof. Giersdorf at IPHR |
Special event: “Die Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft” of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and IPRH present:
A Reading in German by Austrian novelist Josef Haslinger (Click here for event poster)
Monday, March 6, 3:30-4:30 PM
IPRH, 805 W. Pennsylvania, Urbana
Photos from the event:
 
About the author: Novelist and nonfiction writer; b. 1955, Austria, lives in
Vienna and Leipzig; Professor of Creative Writing, University of Leipzig; Visiting
Professor at UIC, Spring 2006. His works include the bestselling novel Opernball
(1995), which was also adapted for film; Das Vaterspiel (2000); and the essay
collection Klasse Burschen (2001). |
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Professor Anke Pinkert
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
" Phantom Pain: Holocaust and Antifascism in East German Film "
THURSDAY February 2, 2005 at 5:30pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Lanuages Building |
| Fall
2005 |
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Professor Frederick Schwink
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "On
the Archaic Nature of the Germanic Languages"
THURSDAY
November 3, 2005 at 5:15pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Lanuages Building |
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Professor Hildegard Elisabeth Keller
University of Zurich
"Melusine's Verticality: Lines of Descent
in Genealogical Narrative"
TUESDAY
October 4, 2005 at 5:15pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Lanuages Building
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September 1
Dr. Oliver Stenschke, University of Goettingen
"'Belaemmerter Tollpatsch': Key Words in the
Discourse on the Spelling Reform"
Dr. Stenschke is a visiting scholar from Germany
spending
the
semester with us in the Department of Germanic Languages
and
Literatures. The lecture will be given in English. |
| Spring
2005 |
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March 3
Mark Thompson, Assistant Professor of English and
Comparative Literature
University of Illinois
"The Negro Who Disappeared: Race in Kafka's
Amerika." |
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February 3
Ursula Lindqvist
University of Illinois, SCAN Visiting lecturer
Univ. of Oregon, Ph.D. Candidate
""Ideologies of Purity: Interpolating
a New Modern Human in 1930s Sweden."
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| Fall
2004 |
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December 6
Lynn Wilkinson
University of Texas, Austin
"The Other Avant-Garde: Women Playwrights
in the 1890s"
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November 4
Grit Schorch
Visiting Scholar and Instructor of Yiddish, Urbana-Champaign/Germanic
Languages and Literatures
"Love Poem or Allegory? Moses Mendelssohn's
Interpretation of 'The Song of Songs'."
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October 7
Professor Carl Niekerk
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign/Germanic
Languages and Literatures
"Man and Orangutan in 18th-Century Thinking:
Reconstructing the Origins of Dutch and German Anthropology."
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September 2
Dr. Tom Kilton,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign/Library
Administration and Modern Languages and
Linguistics Library
"National Socialist Literature: Collections
from the Cooperative Acquisitions Project for Wartime
Publications, 1945-1948."
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| Spring
2004 |
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April 1
Prof. Claudia Bornholdt,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign/Germanic
Languages and Literatures
"Like a Virgin: The German Alexius and his
Twelfth-Century Contemporaries," 5.15 PM Lucy
Ellis, FLB
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March 4
Prof. Meike Werner
Vanderbilt University
"Die Geburt des Menschen aus dem Geist der
Provinz: Jena als Konzept kultureller Erneuerung."
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Feb. 5 (Please note that
the meeting will take place in the Levis Faculty
Center Reading Room)
Prof. Leon Chai,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign/English
"Mommsen: The Past and Future of Historiography. |
| Fall
2003 |
| Dec. 4
NOTE: AT 5:15 PM
Prof. Karin Crawford
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / Germanic
Languages and Literatures
"Gender and Terror in Gerhard Richter's October
18, 1977 and Don DeLillo's 'Baader-Meinhof'"
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| Nov. 6
NOTE: AT 5 PM
Prof. Andreas Gailus
University of Minnesota/Minneapolis
"Satanic Verse: Robert Musil and the Mystical
Language of Incest ".
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| Oct. 9
Prof. Peter Golato
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign/French
"Words and rules in language processing: evidence
from German and French". |
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| Sep.
4
Prof. Peter Fritzsche
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign/History
"Sebald's Twentieth-century Histories" |
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