St. Louis Symposium on German Literature and Culture
St. Louis Symposium on German Literature and Culture
March/April, biennially
Every other year, the department hosts an international symposium on German Language and Culture. Scholars from Europe and the United States, graduate students, members of the university community, and all other interested persons are encouraged to attend.
Past Symposia
March 29 - March 31, 2012
THE 21ST ST. LOUIS SYMPOSIUM ON GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Title: "Distant Readings/Descriptive Turns: Topologies of German Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century"
Organizers: Matt Erlin, Lynne Tatlock
Location: Danforth Campus (Hurst Lounge and DUC 276)
Website: http://distantreadings.wustl.edu/
20TH ST. LOUIS SYMPOSIUM ON GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (2010)
Title: The Ethics of Literature: Contemporary German Authors, Celebrating 25 Years of the Max Kade Center of Contemporary German Literature
Organizers: Paul Michael Lützeler, Jennifer Kapczynski
More information: Website • Article
Published as: Die Ethik der Literatur : deutsche Autoren der Gegenwart. (Göttingen : Wallstein, 2011), 288 pags. [Olin Library Call No. PT415 .E845 2011 ]
19TH ST. LOUIS SYMPOSIUM ON GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (2008)
Title: Consuming News: Newspapers and Print Culture in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800)
Organizers: Gerhild Williams and William Layher
More information: Website • Announcement • Article (Calvin Trillin lecture)
Published as: Consuming News: Newspapers and Print Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1450-1700 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009; Daphnis vol. 37) [Olin Library Call No.: PT 238.D34]
18TH ST. LOUIS SYMPOSIUM ON GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (2006)
Title: After the Digital Divide?: German Aesthetic Theory in the Age of New Media
Organizers: Lutz Koepnick and Erin McGlothlin
More information: Website • Article (Olafur Eliasson lecture)
Published as: After the Digital Divide? German Aesthetic Theory in the Age of New Media (Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2009) [Olin Library Call No.: P90.A345.2009]
17TH ST. LOUIS SYMPOSIUM ON GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (2004)
Title: Transfer Effects: The Appropriation of German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
Organizers: Lynne Tatlock and Matt Erlin
Published as: German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America: Reception, Adaptation, Transformation (Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2005) [Olin Library Call No. E183.8.G3 G474 2005]
16TH ST. LOUIS SYMPOSIUM ON GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (2002)
Title: Between the Local and the Global: Revisiting the Sites of German Cinema
Organizers: Stephan Schindler and Lutz Koepnick
Published as: The Cosmopolitan Screen: German Cinema and the Global Imaginary, 1945 to the Present (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2007) [Olin Library Call No. PN1993.5.G3 C673 2007]
15TH ST. LOUIS SYMPOSIUM ON GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (2000)
Title: Heinrich von Kleist's Works: Aspects of Displacement and Deracination
Organizers: Paul Michael Lützeler and David Pan
Published as: Kleists Erzählungen und Dramen: Neue Studien (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2001) [Olin Library Call No. PT2379.Z5 K545 2001]
14TH ST. LOUIS SYMPOSIUM ON GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (1998)
Title: The Construction of Authority in German Literature of the Medieval & Early Modern Periods
Organizers: James Poag and Claire Baldwin
Published as: The construction of Textual Authority in German literature of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2001). [Olin Library Call No. PT171 .C66 2001]
13TH ST. LOUIS SYMPOSIUM ON GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (1996)
Title: Zeitenwenden/Wendezeiten : Ein halbes Jahrhundert deutsche Literatur (1945-1995)
Organizers: Robert Weninger and Brigitte Rossbacher
Published as: Wendezeiten, Zeitenwenden: Positionsbestimmungen zur deutschsprachigen Literatur, 1945-1995 (Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 1997) [Olin Library Call No. PT405 W365 1997]
12TH ST. LOUIS SYMPOSIUM ON GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (1994)
Title: Knowledge, Science, & Literature in Early Modern Germany
Organizers: Gerhild Williams and Stephan Schindler
Published as: Knowledge, Science, and Literature in Early Modern Germany (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1996). [Olin Library Call No. PD25 .N6 116]
11TH ST. LOUIS SYMPOSIUM ON GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (1992)
Title: The Graph of Sex and the German Text: Early Modern Germany 1500-1700
Organizers: Lynne Tatlock and Christiane Bohnert
Published as: The Graph of Sex and the German Text: Gendered Culture in Early Modern Germany 1500-1700 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994; Chloe, vol. 19) [Olin Library Call No. PT105 C56 19]
10TH ST. LOUIS SYMPOSIUM ON GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (1990)
Title: German Literature of the 1980s
Organizers: Paul Michael Lützeler and John Brawner
Published as: "Literature of the Eighties" theme issue of: The German Quarterly 63 (1990) [Olin Library Call No. PF3001 G3). In German: Spätmoderne und Postmoderne. Beiträge zur deutsch-sprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch, 1991). [Olin Library Call No. PT405 S695 1991]
9TH ST. LOUIS SYMPOSIUM ON GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (1988)
Title: Entzauberung der Welt: Deutsche Literatur 1200-1500
Organizers: James Poag and Thomas C. Fox
Published as: Entzauberung der Welt: deutsche Literatur 1200-1500 (Bern und Tübingen: Francke, 1989) [Olin Library Call No. PT195 E57 1989]
8TH ST. LOUIS SYMPOSIUM ON GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (1986)
Title: Literatur und Kosmos vom 15. bis zum 17. Jahrhundert
Organizers: Gerhild Williams and Lynne Tatlock
Published as: Literatur und Kosmos: Innen- und Außenwelten in der deutschen Literatur des 15. bis 17. Jahrhunderts (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1986; Daphnis vol. 15) [Olin Library Call No. PT238.D34]
7TH ST. LOUIS SYMPOSIUM ON GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (1984)
Title: Goethes Erzählwerk
Organizers: Paul Michael Lützeler and James E. McLeod
Published as: Goethes Erzählwerk (Stuttgart: Reclam, 1984 [Olin Library Call No. PT1984 G63 1985]
6TH ST. LOUIS SYMPOSIUM ON GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (1982)
Title: Das Weiterleben des Mittelalters in der deutschen Literatur
Organizers: James F. Poag and Gerhild Williams
Published as: Das Weiterleben des Mittelalters in der deutschen Literatur (Königstein: Athenäum, 1982) [Olin Library Call No. PT111 W43 1983]
5TH ST. LOUIS SYMPOSIUM ON GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (1980)
Title: Deutsche Literatur in der Bundesrepublik seit 1965
Organizers: Paul Michael Lützeler and Egon Schwarz
Published as: Deutsche Literatur in der Bundesrepublik seit 1965: Untersuchungen und Berichte (Königstein: Athenäum, 1980) [Olin Library Call No. PT403 D43 1980]
4TH ST. LOUIS SYMPOSIUM ON GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (1978)
Title: Der Adel in der deutschen Literatur
Organizers: Peter Uwe Hohendahl and Paul Michael Lützeler
Pubished as: Legitimationskrisen des deutschen Adels 1200-1900 (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1979) [Olin Library Call No. PN51 .L577 11]
3RD ST. LOUIS SYMPOSIUM ON GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (1976)
Title: Jews and Germans from 1860 to 1933
Organizer: David Bronsen
Published as: Jews and Germans from 1860 to 1933 : The Problematic Symbiosis (Heidelberg: Winter, 1979) [Olin Library Call No. DS135 G33 J48]
2ND ST. LOUIS SYMPOSIUM ON GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (1974)
Title: Literatur und Literaturtheorie in der DDR
Organizers: Peter Uwe Hohendahl and Patricia Herminghouse
Published as: Literatur und Literaturtheorie in der DDR (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1976) [Olin Library Call No. PT3716 L57]
1ST ST. LOUIS SYMPOSIUM ON GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (1972)
Title: Deutsche Exilliteratur 1933-1945
Organizers: Egon Schwarz and Peter Uwe Hohendahl
Published as: Exil und innere Emigration II. (Königstein: Athenäum, 1973) [Olin Library Call No. PT3808 E95 1972]