The Liselotte Dieckmann Lecture and Colloquium

Fall semester, bienially

Established in 1996, this biennial lecture and colloquium honors Liselotte Dieckmann, a highly-honored scholar in German studies and a pioneer for women at Washington University and in academia. Promising young scholars are invited to give a lecture on their newest interests and to conduct a workshop for German and Comparative Literature graduate students. Check our Upcoming Events page for more information.

Upcoming Dieckmann Lecture Speaker

Nov. 20-21, 2012 (tentative)

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Past Dieckmann Lecture Speakers

Sept. 23-24, 2010

Fatima Naqvi (Ruttgers University)
Lecture Title: "Ties that Bind: Michael Haneke's Black Pedagogy in The White Ribbon"
Colloquium: "Superficial Similarities: Haneke’s Beginnings in Post-1945 Austrian Culture"

Oct. 23-24, 2008

Catriona Macleod (University of Pennsylvania)
Lecture Title: "The Statue as Rogue Object in German Romanticism"
Colloquium: "Eichendorff’s Marble Statue: Contesting Sculpture through Music"

Oct. 12-13, 2006

Patrizia McBride (University of Minnesota - Minneapolis)
Lecture Title: "Against Moralism: Aesthetics and Politics in Brecht's Early Works"
Colloquium: "Modernism and the Ethos of the Humanities"

Oct. 14-15, 2004

Katrin Sieg (Georgetown University)
Lecture Title: "Oriental Drag "
Colloquium: "Staging Globalization "

Nov. 7-8, 2002

Robert Tobin (Whitman College)
Lecture: "The Third Sex: Emancipated Women and Homosexuals at the Turn of the Century"
Colloquium: "Youth Cult"

Nov. 9-10, 2000

Julia Hell (University of Michigan)
Lecture: "Writing after the Fall of the Wall: Wolfgang Hilbig's Provisorium and Transitional Authorship"
Colloquium: "Theorizing Trauma: Cathy Caruth and Eric Santner"

Sep. 24-25, 1998

Dagmar Lorenz (University of Illinois-Chicago)
Lecture: "Age, Cultural Age, and Representation: Generation-specific Memories in Post-Shoah Writing in Austria"
Colloquium: "Resisting Dissimilation--Asserting Difference. Generation as an Aspect of Conflicting Intentionalities in Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria"

Nov. 15, 1996

Alice Kuzniar (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Lecture: "Hypervisuality in German Romanticism"