German Language and Literatures
Contact
Department Chair:
Elizabeth Hamilton

Administrative Assistant:
Polly Bratton

Department Email:


Phone: 440 7758650
Fax: 440 7756355

Location:
Peters Hall 222
50 N. Professor St.
Oberlin, OH, 44074

Max Kade Lecture

Max Kade Lecture


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

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).

 

 
News

Culture Festival

Sep. 24, 2011

Come be part of Oberlin's Culture Festival this fall 2011!!!!


Jeffrey Van Davis' Heidegger film, Only a God Can Save Us: Heidegger and Nazism

Mar. 04, 2011

Only a God Can Save Us: Heidegger and Nazism.


German and German Studies majors and minor

Feb. 24, 2010

Please join us on Thursday, April 2nd at 4:30 p.m. to talk about the German and German Studies majors and minor.


German Language and Literatures Summer Stipend Guide

Feb. 22, 2010

The Department of German Language and Literatures will award two Max Kade Summer German Study Awards of $2000 to students pursing German language study during summer 2010.


The Murderers are Among us / Die Mörder sind unter uns (1946)

Feb. 21, 2010

This was the very first film made by the Deutsche Film AG (DEFA) film studio, and it was literally filmed in the rubble of postwar Berlin. The film is shown as part of the series War and Memory, sponsored by the Modern Language Advisory Committee.