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

May
7

German 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

Past Events

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
May
2

German Studies Lecture Series: Kate Bermingham

Date
Tuesday, May 2, 2023, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
room 216
April
25

German Studies Colloquium: Tomasz Wisniewski

Date
Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
room 216
April
4

German Studies Lecture Series: Benjamin Lewis Robinson

Date
Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
Room 216
March
7

German Studies Lecture Series: Nikita Dhawan

Date
Tuesday, March 7, 2023, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location:
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
Room 216