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

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
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
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
December
6

German Studies Lecture Series: Kristin Böse and Markus Späth

Date
Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Pigott Hall, Rm. 216.