The University of Sheffield
Department of Germanic Studies

Research Seminars

Research Seminars Spring Semester 2012
Date
 Speaker Affiliation Title

15 February 2012, 4pm

 Matthew Bell King's College London Religious Melancholy in Weimar Classicism

14 March 2012, 4pm

(with Centre for Ernst Bloch Studies)

 Endre Hárs University of Szeged, Hungary “Historische Gemählde.” Bilderpolitik nach Herder

28 March 2012, 4pm

(with Centre for Ernst Bloch Studies)

 Peter Thompson Sheffield The Metaphysics of Contingency: Ernst Bloch's Speculative Materialism, or How Not Everything That Has Happened Had to Happen, But Now That It Has, It Did

25 April 2012, 4pm

(with Centre for Dutch Studies and  the Centre for Linguistic Research)

 Roel Vismans Sheffield Dutch Forms of Address in Online Newspaper Advertising

2 May 2012, 4pm

 Torsten Müller Ruhr-Universität Bochum “Knabbereien schon gekauft und Sekt kaltgestellt?” On Informal Constructions in German, Linguistic Theory, and Cognitive Reality

All seminars take place in Jessop West Seminar Room 04 (floor 4, blue wing)

WINE SERVED AFTERWARDS

Autumn Semester 2011-2012
Date Speaker Affiliation Title
Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 4pm James Hawes Oxford Brookes Franz Kafka: The Construction of Genius
Wednesday, 2 November 2011, 4pm Henk de Berg University of Sheffield Zur Kritik der Kulturkritik
Wednesday, 16 November, 4pm. Cat Moir University of Sheffield Religion without God? A Blochian Critique of East German Folk Atheism
Wednesday, 23 November 2011, 4pm Abdelkader Benali Amsterdam Abdelkader Benali will talk about and read from his work.

This talk is in association with citybooks Sheffield
Wednesday, 7 December 2011, 4pm Regina Weinert University of Sheffield Forks in the road: complement clauses in spoken German and English

Venue

All seminars take place in Jessop West SR07 (floor 4, red wing)

WINE SERVED AFTERWARDS