Each year, the graduate students of the German Department organize a conference on a topic relevant to German Studies.
Utopia and Play
March 21st and 22nd, 2024
Recent Conferences
Die ewige Wiederkehr des Vampyrs / The Eternal Return of the Vampire
March 3rd and 4th, 2023
Organized by Artun Ak and Chaitrali Kulkarni.
Keynote speakers: Elisabeth Bronfen, Professor of English and American Literature at the Universität Zurich, and Laurence A. Rickels, Professor of German Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Stimmen: Voices
March 3rd and 4th, 2022
This hybrid conference was held both in person and via Zoom.
Organized by Elisabeth Oberlerchner and Nicole Uberreich
Keynote speaker: Anna Baar
pdf Click here for the 2022 Call for Papers. (119 KB)
Ecstasy – Ekstase – Rausch
March 4th and 5th, 2021
Conference held virtually via Zoom.
Organized by Christiane Fischer and Arielle Friend.
Keynote address: Wayne Koestenbaum, Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and French at CUNY Graduate Center.
Shock
September 21st, 2018
Organized by Eva Erber
Keynote speaker: Uwe Wirth, Professor of German Literature at the Justus-Liebig Universität Wien.
For the full program, please click here.
Apocalyptic Narratives
April 15th, 2017
Organized by Anna Mayer and Janine Wahrendorf
Keynote speaker: Eva Horn, Professor of German Literature, Universität Wien
Click here for a full event program: Apocalyptic Narratives
Economic Hi$tories
April 24th and 25th, 2015
Organized by Stefanie Populorum and Carlos Gasperi
Keynote speaker: Fritz Breithaupt, Professor of German, University of Bloomington, Indiana
Intermediality and Intermedial Narratives in the German-Speaking World
April 18th, 2014
Organized by Damianos Grammatikopoulos and Sascha Hosters
Keynote speaker: Henry Sussman, Professor of German at Yale University
Representing Women in the Cinema of Josef von Sternberg
May 3rd, 2013
Organized by Christina Mandt and Susan Doose
Keynote speaker: Barbara Kosta, Professor of German Studies, University of Tuscon, Arizona
A Quiet Powerful Presence: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Role of Silence
March 30th, 2012
Organized by Sascha Hosters and Veronika Jeltsch
Keynote speaker: Rainer Nägele, Professor of German at Yale University
Die Stadt: The Writing of Urban Spaces in the German Speaking Context
April 10th, 2011
Organized by Katrin Polak- Springer and Simona Sivkoff
Keynote speaker: Gabriele Schwab, Professor of German at the University of California, Irvine
2009 Conference, Minority – Identity: Selfhood and Nationhood in the Hapsburg Empire and Beyond. Held February 27, 2009. Organized by Devin O'Neal and Rebecca Steele.
2008 Forum, (Un)ruly Pleasures in German Culture. Held March 28, 2008. Organized by Christophe Kone, Mareen Fuchs and Shambhavi Prakash.
2007 Conference, Violence: A Necessary Evil? Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Means and Ends of Violence in German Film, Literature, and Fine Arts. Organized by Juljana Gjata and Katrin Polak-Springer.
2006 Conference, Heimat: Utopia or Reality? Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Search for Heimat and National Identity. Held March 3, 2006. Organized by Rebecca Steele and Julia Feldhaus.
document 2005 Conference (50 KB) Ostalgie: Commemorating the Past or Evading the Present? Cultural Representations of Post-Communist Europe and The Politics of Remembering the Good Old East. Organized by Federica Franze. Keynote speaker: Laurence McFalls, Professor of Political Science at the University of Montreal.
image 2004 Conference (81 KB) , Beyond Oedipus: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Father. Organized by Kai Diers.