Past Symposia
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 others interested are encouraged to attend.
| Number | Dates | Title | Organizers |
| 25 | September 2-4, 2021 | Transnational Framings: The German Literary Field in the Age of Nationalism | Lynne Tatlock Kurt Beals |
| 24 | April 5-7, 2018 | The Arts of Democratization: Stylizing Political Sensibilities in Postwar West Germany | Jennifer Kapczynski Caroline Kita |
| 23 | March 31-April 2, 2016 | Knowledge in Motion: Constructing Transcultural Experience in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods (1200-1750) | Gerhild Williams Christian Schneider |
| 22 | March 20-22, 2014 | Crossing the Disciplinary Divide: Conjunctions in German and Holocaust Studies | Erin McGlothlin Jennifer Kapczynski |
| 21 | March 29-30, 2012 | Distant Readings/Descriptive Turns: Topologies of German Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century | Matt Erlin Lynne Tatlock |
| 20 | March 26-28, 2010 | The Ethics of Literature: Contemporary German Authors, Celebrating 25 Years of the Max Kade Center of Contemporary German Literature | Paul Michael Lützeler Jennifer Kapczynski |
| 19 | April 3-5, 2008 | Consuming News: Newspapers and Print Culture in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800) | Gerhild Williams William Layher |
| 18 | March 30-April 1, 2006 | After the Digital Divide?: German Aesthetic Theory in the Age of New Media | Lutz Koepnick Erin McGlothlin |
| 17 | April 3, 2004 |
Transfer Effects: The Appropriation of German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America |
Lynne Tatlock Matt Erlin |
| 16 | April 3, 2002 | Between the Local and the Global: Revisiting the Sites of German Cinema | Stephan Schindler Lutz Koepnick |
| 15 | April 3, 2000 | Heinrich von Kleist's Works: Aspects of Displacement and Deracination | Paul Michael Lützeler David Pan |
| 14 | April 3, 1998 | The Construction of Authority in German Literature of the Medieval & Early Modern Periods | James Poag Claire Baldwin |
| 13 | April 4, 1996 | Zeitenwenden/Wendezeiten : Ein halbes Jahrhundert deutsche Literatur (1945-1995) | Robert Weninger Brigitte Rossbacher |
| 12 | April 3, 1994 | Knowledge, Science, & Literature in Early Modern Germany | Gerhild Williams Stephan Schindler |
| 11 | April 3, 1992 | The Graph of Sex and the German Text: Early Modern Germany 1500-1700 | Lynne Tatlock Christiane Bohnert |
| 10 | April 3, 1990 | German Literature of the 1980s | Paul Michael Lützeler John Brawner |
| 9 | April 3, 1988 | Entzauberung der Welt: Deutsche Literatur 1200-1500 | James Poag Thomas C. Fox |
| 8 | April 3, 1986 | Literatur und Kosmos vom 15. bis zum 17. Jahrhundert | Gerhild Williams Lynne Tatlock |
| 7 | April 3, 1984 | Goethes Erzählwerk | Paul Michael Lützeler James McLeod |
| 6 | April 3, 1982 | Das Weiterleben des Mittelalters in der deutschen Literatur | James Poag Gerhild Williams |
| 5 | April 3, 1980 | Deutsche Literatur in der Bundesrepublik seit 1965 | Paul Michael Lützeler Egon Schwarz |
| 4 | April 3, 1978 | Der Adel in der deutschen Literatur | Peter Uwe Hohendahl Paul Michael Lützeler |
| 3 | April 3, 1976 | Jews and Germans from 1860 to 1933 | David Bronsen |
| 2 | April 3, 1974 | Literatur und Literaturtheorie in der DDR | Peter Uwe Hohendahl Patricia Herminghouse |
| 1 | April 3, 1972 | Deutsche Exilliteratur 1933-1945 | Egon Schwarz Peter Uwe Hohendahl |