2009-10 Past Lectures and Events:

Winter 10 German Film Series:
Thursday, 7:00PM, Buchanan 1930
January 28th, "Kebab Connection"
February 11th, "Gegen Die Wand" (Head-On)
February 25th, "Auf Der Anderen Seite" (The Edge of Heaven)

Lecture on the 2009 Nobel Prize winner in Literature
Thursday, January 28th, 4:00PM, State Street Room, UCen
"The Pressure of Experience Forces Language into Poetry: Facts, Fiction, Autofiction and Surfiction in Herta Müller's Work"
A Lecture by Professor Paola Bozzi, Professor of German Literature and Culture at the University of Milan.

Monday, February 8th, 5:00PM, McCune Conference Room (6020 HSSB)
"Stalin's Great Terror: Historic Photo Documents and Memorial Culture Today"
Tomasz Kizny will present his documentary photo project that gives faces and voices to the victims of The Great Terror in the USSR (1936-38).
Sponsored by the departments of Comparative Literature, Germanic Slavic & Semitic Studies, History, Political Science and the IHC.

World Premiere at the 25th Santa Barbara International Film Festival
THE DESERT OF FORBIDDEN ART
Written, Produced and Directed by Amanda Pope & Tchavdar Georgiev
Saturday, February 6th 12:30PM, Victoria Hall Theatre
Friday, February 12th 1:00PM, SB Museum of Art

Tuesday, February 9th, 5:00PM, Phelps 6320
"Distance, Space and Aesthetic Experience Around 1900"
A Lecture by Professor Jutta Müller-Tamm, Professor of German Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Tuesday, February 23rd, 5:00PM, Flying A Studios Room, UCen
"Hauntings: Ghosts from a Nazi Childhood"
A Lecture by Professor Emerita Ursula Mahlendorf.
Part of the Wittenstein Lecture Series.

Thursday, March 4th, 5:00PM, Harbor Room, UCen
"Critical Judgment in the Age of Artificial Eyes"
A Lecture by Visiting Kade Professor Bernhard J. Dotzler.