German Studies Lecture Series

This series hosts speakers from across a broad array of topics related to the German-speaking cultures.  Lectures take place monthly from October through May and provide undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty with opportunities for discussion and commentary.

Upcoming Events

January
28

Lovesickness and Melancholy in Medieval Literature: The Pathologization of Crisis in Konrad von Würzburg's Partonopier and Meliur

Date
Tuesday, January 28, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
Room 216
April
8

German Lecture Series: April 2025

Date
Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
room 216
April
22

German Lecture Series: April 2025

Date
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
room 216

Past Events

November
12

German Studies Lecture Series: The Virtual, the Actual, and the Real

Date
Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
Room 216
October
22

German Studies Lecture Series: EL Loko and Joseph Beuys: Shifting Perspectives on the Düsseldorf Art Academy and Post-War „Shamanism"

Date
Tuesday, October 22, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
Room 216
October
8

German Studies Lecture Series: New Right. Post Left. Adorno in Neukölln.

Date
Tuesday, October 8, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
Room 216
May
7

German Studies Lecture Series - Breath Piece: On Paul Celan and John Coltrane.

Date
Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
Room 216
April
16

German Studies Lecture Series: A Dream of Unity. Goethe-Reception and Life Reform Movement in German Literature around 1900

Date
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
Room 216
April
2

German Studies Lecture Series: Drawing on Experience: Graphic Medicine and the Concept of Erlebnis

Date
Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
Room 216
February
6

German Studies Lecture Series: Misinformation, Reformation, and the English Sweating Sickness featured lecture by Christopher Hutchinson (Assistant Professor of German, University of Mississippi)

Date
Tuesday, February 6, 2024, 12:00pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
Room 216
December
5

German Studies Lecture Series Presents "The Postwar Antisemite on Screen: Der Prozeß (The Trial) (1948) and The Third Man (1949) " featured lecture by Lisa Silverman (Professor of History and Jewish Studies -University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Date
Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
room 216
November
14

German Studies Lecture Series: Rilke’s Sonette an Orpheus and How Things Are featured lecture by William Waters (German Studies and Comparative Literature, Boston University)

Date
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
room 216
October
3

German Studies Lecture Series: “The Machine in the Commons - The Ballad and the Social Question on either side of 1848”

Date
Tuesday, October 3, 2023, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
room 216