German Program
Calendar of Events
Wednesday, April 18th, 4:30pm 209 DeBartolo Hall, Lecture by Max Kade Visiting Professor Susanne Kaul:
Truth, Emotion, and Film
The following question will be discussed:
How can a fictional film be a bearer of truth?
Aristotle considers fiction a mimesis of action offering universal traits in single events. Fiction may not make propositions. However, it possibly conveys philosophical truth. Fiction film, I argue, also happens to be philosophical. When considering film as a medium, the question is: How does the audiovisuality contribute to the mediation of truth? Through an intensive effect on the viewer’s emotions. Furthermore, the emotional reception of a film, I argue, contributes to the mediation of truth.
Past Events
Conference to Explore Conceptions of Truth
Thursday-Saturday, April 12-14, The University of Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) will host an international conference, Conceptions of Truth, focused on the nature of truth. The interdisciplinary conference, scheduled for April 12-14 (Thursday-Saturday), will bring 17 leading experts to McKenna Hall to address the subject of “the truth.” The conference will include discussion of ideas presented as well as less formal opportunities for scholarly interaction. Read More
Watch for once a month on a Wednesday, 7:00 to 9:00 Stammtisch at Legends
Wednesday, December 7th from 4:00 to 5:30 Kaffeestunde CSLC Multi-purpose room 329 DeBartolo
Provost's Distinguished Women Lecturers Program
Wednesday, october 26th, 5-6:30 McKenna Hall reception following immediately in McKenna Atruim This years lecture is Yoko Tawada a Multi-lingual author titled Adventures of Foreign Languages
South Bend Symphony
Saturday, February 26th, 8:00pm Classical Legends Morris Performing Arts Center
Sunday, March 13th, 3:00pm JS Bach & Sons Featuring Selections from JS, CPE & JC Bach DPAC
Sunday, May 1st Spring Melodies Featuring Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 k at DPAC
Monday, March 21, 4:30pm 303 Main Building Lecture by Max Kade Visiting Professor Michael Jaeger, Johannas Politik. Friedrich Schillers Drama "Die Jungfrau von Orleans"
Nanovic Institute for European Studies "Forum" Guest: Bernhard Schlink
Wednesday, April 6th, 7:30pm Film: The Reader DPAC Browning Cinema
Thursday, April 7th, 5:00pm Eck Hall of Law Lecture by Bernard Schlink with panel of respondents.
Friday, April 8th, 12:00pm Hammes Student Lounge, Coleman Morse Center Reading and lunch with Bernhard Schlink
Thursday, April 7th 4:00pm Dooley Room in LaFortune Student Center Lecture by Professor Richard Wolin Distinguished Professor of History and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. “Walter Benjamin Meets the Cosmics.”
Walter Benjamin is largely known for his resolutely left-wing political sympathies and preferences as exemplified by his pathbreaking works of the 1930s – the “Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” the Arcades Project, and so forth. By the same token, he always possessed a keen admiration for thinkers on the right side of the political spectrum such as Nietzsche, Carl Schmitt, and Ludwig Klages. “Walter Benjamin Meets the Cosmics” seeks to address the question of how far this intellectual admiration actually went.When all is said and done, how serious was Benjamin about appropriating so-called conservative revolutionary precepts for left-wing political ends?
Monday, April 11th 4:30pm 209 DeBarolo Lecture by Marcel Lepper
Film Series: The Führer in Fiction: Film Portraits of Hitler
All viewings will be held in DPAC Browning Cinema
Sunday, February 13th at 3:00pm The Great Dictator (1940)
Thursday, February 17th at 7:00pm Downfall (2004)
Saturday, February 19th at 6:30pm The Producers (1968)
Saturday, February 19th at 9:00pm Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Wednesday, February 16, 5 to 6:30 Geddes Hall Auditorium (reception to follow)
Lecture by Professor Geoff Eley University of Michigan (Sponsored by the History Dept.)
The Past Under Erasure: History, Memory and the Contemporary
Sunday, February 20th, 1:00pm Chicago Lyric Opera
Richard Wagner's Lohengrin (Dept. sponsored trip. Reserve ticket with Prof. Della Rossa)
Friday, February 25th, 7:00pm DPAC Browning Cinema
Vision-From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (Director: Margarethe von Trotta)
Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD DPAC Browning Cinema
Saturday, February 26th at 1:00pm Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride (live presentation)
Sunday, March 6th at 1:00pm Encore presentation of Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride
Monday, February 15 Lecture by Dirk Oschmann, Visiting Max Kade Professor "Motion is Madness". How the Idea of Motion Transformed 18th Century Aesthetics
4:30pm in 119 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Monday, February 22 Lecture by Emmanuel Faye "National Socialism in Philosophy: Being, History, Technology and Extermination in Heidegger's Work" Eck Center Auditorium 4-6 pm.
Tuesday, February 23 workshop by Emmanuel Faye "Heidegger and the Nazi Movement in the Interpretations of Hannah Arendt, Eric Voegelin and Aurel Kolnai" in 339 O’Shaughnessy Hall 3-5pm.
Friday, January 22 Mark Roche lecture “Within modern art, the concept opposite the beautiful, the ugly, has gained a strange prestige—what is its function in enhancing the expressivity of art?” McKenna Hall 3:45-4:45 pm. For more information on the Institute for Advanced Study Conference on Beauty click here.
Wednesday, October 7, 6:00-9:00pm
Okdomerfest at Legend’s!
Enjoy traditional German food and dancing with a live Oom-Pah Band.
Monday, October 12 and Tuesday, October 13, 2009.
Campus visit of Dr. Horst Teltschik, National Security Advisor to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; and J.D. Bindenagel, former American ambassador and 28-year veteran of the U.S. diplomatic corps, J.D. previously served in the U.S. Army, the State Department and in U.S. Embassies in Germany in various capacities from 1972 to 2003
Monday October 12, 8:00 pm
Lecture by Dr. Horst Teltschik, National Security Advisor to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl
November 12, 7:00 pm in the Browning Cinema, Debartolo Performing Arts Center
Film “To Be or Not To Be” (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942).
A satirical comedy/propaganda film about a Polish theater troupe bent on resisting Nazi occupation, designed to exhort the USA to join the war against fascism.
Part of the Nanovic Film Series AY 2009/10 – “European Shakespeare”
November 22 – December 21: Exhibit "Ikonen einer Grenzanlage"
Produced by media students at the University of Paderborn assigned with finding the remaining vestiges of the Berlin Wall. The exhibit is intended as part of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Wall. It will be housed in the CSLC.
Tuesday, September 22nd, 4:00pm, 119 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Lecture: "Aesthetic Totalitarianism: From Sonderweg to Universal Catastrophe in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus" by Todd Kontje
February 8 - March 1, 2009A Multi-Media Exhibit on the Theme of War (Writing Against War Ingeborg Bachmann)Hesburgh Library, Mezzanine Level (2nd floor)
Opening Reception 5:00pm Thursday, February 12th with a Reading by
Professor Peter Filkins, Bard College
April 2008
Faust at Notre Dame in April (http://www.nd.edu/~faust/events.html)
Theater Production: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Opera: Faust 1859
Film: Bedazzled (1967)
Film: Mephisto (1981)
Learn More > http://performingarts.nd.edu
February 24 - March 23
Snite Museum Exhibit - The Lure of Italy in the Time of Goethe
Monday, March 24
"wordmusic"
A sound performance of percussion and poetry in German and English.
Sunday, March 23
Film: Ein Kleid aus Warschau ( A Dress from Warsaw) in German and Polish with English subtitles
