Walter de Gruyter, Inc. presents
"Old German - The Interactive Way"

The first multi-media-based History of German Language textbook will be introduced in conjunction with the publisher’s innovative electronic platform: "Moutons Interaktive Einführung in die Historische Linguistik des Deutschen/The Mouton Interactive Introduction to Historical Linguistics of German." Multiple sound examples and newly developed visualizations offer a widespread overview of the lingo-historical development of German language from its beginnings to the present.

Jim Avignon (Artist, NY/Berlin)
Title: Always Trouble with the “Über-Ich”
The exhibition will be on view from February 1, 2008- March 1, 2008.

Carolin Emcke (Reporter/Author DIE ZEIT)
Lecture: "On War and Misjudgements"

Film 1: The Harmonists, 1998. Directed by Joseph Vilsmaier. 115 min.
The true story of the Comedian Harmonists, the legendary singing group that became an overnight sensation in prewar Germany In German with English Subtitles

Miro Magloire (New Chamber Ballet)
A conversation on ballet, sound, gestures, notation, tradition and silence.

Alain Claude Sulzer (Writer-In-Residence) Reading & Book Signing In German and English

David Frum (Author, Journalist, Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute), Bernard Yeung (Stern Business School, NYU), Thomas Risse (Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy, Freie Universität Berlin). Concept and Moderator: Marcia Pally (NYU)

Michael Minkenberg (Viadrina University, Frankfurt (Oder), Max Weber Chair at NYU)
Lecture: “New Capitals in New Nations: Comparative Perspectives”
Please note: This Max Weber Lecture Series Spring 2008 takes place in the Grand Room at 19 University Place (across from Deutsches Haus). Call 212.998.8660 for directions.

Film 2: Hot Summer, 1967. Directed by Joachim Hasler. 91 min.
East German beach party musical about a group of teenagers on a Baltic Sea vacation
In German with English Subtitles

This workshop is organized by the Department of German and is free and open to the public.

Broadening out from literary and cinematic case studies the workshop will explore the nature of ghostly figures and ways in which they could lend authority to previously silenced voices. The time framework stretches from the early "sightings" in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" deep into current implications, a time in which a return of that which returns becomes progressively more apparent.

Participants: Sue de Beer (NYU), Nicola Behrmann (NYU), Frauke Berndt (University of Chicago), Janelle Blankenship (University of Western Ontario), Sladja Blazan (NYU/Humboldt University Berlin), Jeff Champlin (NYU), Eckart Goebel (NYU), Alicja Kowalska (NYU), Natalie Nagel (NYU), Avital Ronell (NYU) Robert Stockhammer (Ludwig Maximilan Universität München), Brigitte Weingart (Columbia University) and further graduate students.

For conference schedule click here

Robert Stockhammer (Freie Universität Berlin)
In collaboration with the Department of German at NYU.

Kenneth Bowling (Co-editor, The First Federal Congress Project, George Washington University)
Lecture: "'Bundesdorf or Bundesstadt?’ States Rights versus Federal Power in the Creation and Evolution of Washington, D.C."
Please note: This Max Weber Lecture Series Spring 2008 takes place in the Grand Room at 19 University Place (across from Deutsches Haus). Call 212.998.8660 for directions.

Postponed until Fall 2008

Andrea Köhler (Cultural Correspondent, Neue Zürcher Zeitung)

Bernhard Dotzler (University of Regensburg)
In German
In collaboration with the Department of German at NYU.

The conference seeks to address the following questions: how valid, in retrospect, is the founding claim of the postcolonial that it offers a different view of the real? If the world outside the west had been understood through traditions of western representation which ignored the reality of what was actually there, silencing different cultures, epistemologies, and the lives that were lived in them, how successfully has postcolonial studies intervened to enable the former subjects of Western representations to determine the representation of their own realities and to transform realism and representation at an aesthetic level?

In collaboration with the Department of English at NYU.

http://www.nyupoco.com/html/program.html

Nicola Mueller (Artist, Berlin)
The exhibition will be on view from March 8 – April 5, 2008.

Manfred Schneider (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
In collaboration with the Department of German at NYU

Jürgen Neyer (Viadrina University, Frankfurt (Oder))
Lecture: "Images of Power: The European Union and its Architecture"
Please note: This lecture will take place at Deutsches Haus at NYU.

Film 2: Beyond Silence, 1998. Directed by Caroline Link. 107 min. The Academy Award nominated story of a young woman's battle for independence and her deaf parents' struggle to understand her gift for music In German with English Subtitles

Frederick M. Dolan (University of California at Berkeley)
Lecture: "Overcoming the Tradition: Schmitt, Arendt, Foucault."

Please join us for the Spring 2008 Open House.

Deutsches Haus recommends: Nietzsche Circle Event

Discussion: "Ecstatic Sonnets: Philosophy and Poetry in Rilke and Nietzsche"
Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei (Fordham University and Clarendon Scholar at Oxford University).and Katja Brunkhorst (ex-ENS, Paris, and University of London; freelance writer and musician)
Moderator: Mark Daniel Cohen (Editor of Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics and assistant dean of the Media and Communications Division of the European Graduate School)
Click here for more information.

Germany, Iran and Nuclear Power

Tuesday April 1, 2008, 6:30PM

Location: Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò
24 West 12th Street New York, NY 10011

imagining global asia (iga) in partnership with Deutsches Haus plans to explore the relationship of Germany and Iran, considering the issues of nuclear power.The engagement of Germany as part of European Union (EU) negotiations with Iran over nuclear power illustrates that Europe must be considered when studying Asian energy policy; the panel is part of iga's 2007-2008 global energy forum.

Germany is one of the largest trading partners of Iran, building on a strong history of cooperation. Simultaneously Germany is in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. Germany in effect has a balancing act of three aspects: geo-political concerns regarding Iran; trade relationship with Iran; domestic concerns about the use of nuclear power. The question then becomes, what is the result of Germany's efforts to play this balancing act? This lecture is a means to explore implicit tensions while thinking about policy, media, and the role of the average citizen.

PANELISTS
Dr. Roger von Hanwehr (Managing Partner at ArcXeon International LLC), Dr. Walter Posch (EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) in Paris), Gary Samore (Council on Foreign Relations).

MODERATOR
Lia Petridis (Freelance Journalist/Editor)
Registration Required. Seating is first come, first serve.

Can't attend? The event will be available online afterwards on www.fora.tv.

Christoph Asendorf (Viadrina University Frankfurt (Oder))
Lecture: "Berlin: Three Centuries as Capital"
Please note: This Max Weber Lecture Series Spring 2008 takes place in the Grand Room at 19 University Place (across from Deutsches Haus). Call 212.998.8660 for directions.

Michael Schwalb (Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR))
In German

Klaus Michael Bogdal (University of Bielefeld)

Organized by Denis Hollier and Avital Ronell

Thursday, April 10 - 6:30 p.m.
Location: Cardozo Law School, 55 Fifth Avenue

Friday, April 11 and Saturday, April 12
Location: La Maison Française, NYU

Complete Schedule

Sponsored by NYU (Departments of French, German., and Comparative Literature; Center for French Civilization and Culture; Dean of Humanities; The Humanities Initiative); Princeton University (Department of French and Italian; Office of the President); Cardozo Law School; TVTS; Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

Nicolaus Schmidt (Artist, Berlin)
Performance by Fatma Souad, founder of Gayhane - Berlin
The exhibition will be on view from April 12 – May 17, 2008.

Heidi Byrnes (Georgetown University)

Jean-Louis Cohen (New York University)
Please note: This Max Weber Lecture takes place in the Grand Room at 19 University Place (across from Deutsches Haus). Call 212.998.8660 for directions.

"Great Voyages and Loves of Hölderlin and Heine; Hyperion by Friedrich Hölderlin and Travel Pictures by Heinrich Heine."
In collaboration with Archipelago Books

Welcome note by Max Weber Chair, Michael Minkenberg (Viadrina University, Frankfurt (Oder))

Keynote lecture by Cas Mudde (University of Antwerp): "Populist Radical Right Parties in Central and Eastern Europe: Beyond Multiple Legacies"

This event will take place at Deutsches Haus at NYU

PEN World Voices Festival has invited 170 writers from 51 countries to participate in 80 events in New York City. The festival will explore the 2008 theme of Public Lives/Private Lives.

Eight German-speaking participants have been invited to this year’s PEN Festival: Daniel Kehlmann, Michael Krüger, Jutta Richter, Bernhard Schlink, Evelyn Schlag, Erika Stucky, Deutsches Haus Writer-in-Residence Saša Stanišić, and Ingo Schulze. The PEN program also includes tribute events for Austrian author Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) and Swiss author Robert Walser (1878-1956). For detailed information, please visit www.pen.org and read more.

JOIN US FOR OUR APPETIZERS PARTY
in honor of the German-speaking participants

Wine, beer, and culinary specialties from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland

Live DJ performances by:
The Teutonic Twins a.k.a. Tim and Alessandra
DJ Christopher Just
DJ Tizi

When: Saturday, May 3 at 8 p.m.
Where: Deutsches Haus at NYU
RSVP: bela-nikolaus.buzasi@diplo.de

Klaus von Beyme (Universität Heidelberg)
Lecture: "Capital Building in Post-War Germany"
Please note: This lecture will take place at Deutsches Haus at NYU

On Saturday, May 3, a young crowd of nearly 400 people danced through the night at the trendy Deutsches Haus at NYU. Read more...

Terry Kirk (American University of Rome)
Lecture: "Building Fascist Bodies: The Foro Mussolini in Rome, Metaphysics, and Homoeroticism"
Please note: This Max Weber Lecture takes place in the Grand Room at 19 University Place (across from Deutsches Haus). Call 212.998.8660 for directions.