Future graduate students

The 2013 Jakob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm Lecture will be given by Harvard film scholar Eric Rentschler. Professor Rentschler, who will also be receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo for his leading scholarship in film studies, will be speaking on the film The Lives of Others / Das Leben der Anderen, winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2007.

This talk grows out of the University of Heidelberg Collaborative Research Centre 933 (CRC 933), in which faculty-led research groups from different disciplines examine script-bearing artefacts such as pillars, steles, portals, tombstones, potsherds, amulets, scrolls, papyri, and parchment codices in order to examine the spec

In 1517, Martin Luther published the Ninety-Five Theses, and 2017, "The Luther Year," celebrates the 500th anniversary of this beginning of the Reformation. Luther’s German translation of the Bible has remained influential to this day; his hymns are still sung; and many still use his proverbs. But does all this make him the inventor of High German?

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Program

8:45 – 9:00 Welcome

Part I: Healthy conversations…

Chair: Elizabeth Milne

9:00 – 9:30 Gesprächsbeendigung in medizinischen Beratungsgesprächen im Radio am Beispiel der Sendung Das Gesundheitsgespräch - Rachel Roudyani

9:30 – 10:00 Indexing priority of position: The response particle eben in German discourse - Emma Betz & Arnulf Deppermann

10:00-10:30 Wenn der Internist zum Psychotherapeuten wird: Eine Einzelfallstudie in Betrachtung der Sprachhandlungen aus der Psychotherapie - Judith Hallwachs

Ron Broglio will trace back to the 18th-century sensibility movement contemporary post-humanist ideas of animals having a voice. In his talk, he will pursue what animal studies can push against in terms of the animal “rights” movement.

His publications include:

„ich war neun, lebte im besten land der welt und hatte keine ahnung von revolution.“

In welchem Land wir geboren werden, wir aufwachsen, können wir uns nicht aussuchen. 

Timothy Snyder, author of the widely successful book Black Earth, believes we have misunderstood the Holocaust and the essential lessons it should have taught us. If the Holocaust was indeed, as Snyder’s carefully constructed argument will demonstrate, a result of ecological panic and state destruction, then our misunderstanding of it has endangered our own future. The world of the early twenty-first century resembles the world of the early twentieth more than we realize—and some of our own sensibilities are closer to those of Europeans of the 1930s than we might like to think.

Join us for a reading group and then meet the author afterwards! Almost Everything Very Fast is German award-winning author Christopher Kloeble's 3rd book and his North American debut. (His 4th book, Die Unsterbliche Familie Salz, just came out in August.)