Lectures, talks and symposia archive

Holocaust Writing and Translation

24 February 2011 | Institute of German and Romance Studies
A Workshop organised under the auspices of Aberystwyth University, the University of Edinburgh and the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, London. Coordinated by Andrea Hammel (Aberystwyth) and Peter Davies (Edinburgh). The workshop brings together scholars ...
Survival, Memory and Testimony

Survival, Memory and Testimony. Personal Perspectives on the Holocaust

1 February 2011, 6.00pm
Dialogue between Freddie Knoller, survivor of Auschwitz, and Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Holocaust Historian, University of Manchester ‘I realised that there were two choices [in Auschwitz]: You can either give up and within 2 or 3 days ...
ORTLOS Space Engineering

ORTLOS Space Engineering. Experimental Design Laboratory

15 January 2011, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
  Alongside the exhibition Performative Networked Design, the ORTLOS Interdisciplinary team will lead a one week workshop with a group of architectural students from the Graz University of Technology (TU Graz). The prototype of the ‘performative ...
German Women’s Writing in its European Context, 1700-1900

German Women’s Writing in its European Context, 1700-1900

25 – 26 November 2010 | Institute of German and Romance Studies
Convenors: Dr Caroline Bland (Sheffield) and Dr Hilary Brown (Swansea)

How European was German women's writing of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What opportunities did women writers have to participate in cross-cultural interchange? How ...

The Concept of Food: Three Austrian Documentaries

22 November 2010, 5.30pm
The Department of German at King's College London is delighted to announce that the second seminar of this term's series will be given by Dr Helen Hughes (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Department ...
Schrödinger Lecture

Schrödinger Lecture

11 November 2010, 5.30pm | Imperial College
The Erwin Schrödinger Lecture is an annual event named after the noted Austrian scientist Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961). Schrödinger was a theoretical physicist and a significant contributor to the wave theory of ...

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