Guest Lectures

The Department of German Language and Literatures
invites you to the

Thirtieth Annual Max Kade Lecture

Jefferey Herf

"Ideology into Narrative: Nazy Germany's Anti-Semitic Propaganda in Germany and the Middle East - and its Aftereffects"

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

4:30 p.m.

Max Kade German House

16TH ANNUAL HAROLD JANTZ MEMORIAL LECTURE

The Günter Grass Scandal:
The Writer's "Crabwalk Toward His Past"



By
Professor Judith Ryan
Professor of German and Comparative Literature
Harvard University

Saturday, April 14, 2007
4:30 p.m.
Hallock Auditorium
Environmental Studies Center
Oberlin College

The Department of German Language and Literatures has been pleased to host these annual Max Kade lectures:

Twenty-Ninth Annual Max Kade Lecture

Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr.
Professor of German
Millersville University

Black Prussians: African Americans
and German Higher Education, 1849-1933

Friday, February 16, 2007
*****

The Twenty-eighth Annual Max Kade Lecture

Michael Hofmann
noted writer and award-winning translator
On Translating Franz Kafka
(in English)

Saturday, November 12, 2005

*****

The Twenty-seventh Annual Max Kade Lecture

Professor Leslie Adelson, Cornell University

"Remembering the Future: The Turkish Turn in Contemporary German Literature"

Saturday, November 9, 2002

*****

The Twenty-sixth Annual Max Kade Lecture

Professor Todd Kontje, University of California, San Diego

"Günter Grass and the Literature of Migration: Between Heimat and Diaspora"

Saturday, November 3, 2001

*****

The Twenty-fifth Annual Max Kade Lecture

Professor David Chisholm, University of Arizona

"German Literary-Political Cabaret during the Weimar Republic"

Saturday, November 4, 2000

Annual Max Kade lectures are made possible through a series of generous grants to the German Department by the Max Kade Foundation (New York).

Other Recent Lecture Events

The Annual Harold Jantz Memorial Lecture

Professor Anton Kaes, University of California at Berkeley

April 13th, 2005

Elizabeth Oehlkers, Poet and Translator

"From the Spirit to the Letter: Translating Zafer Senocak"

Monday, March 19, 2001