Public Events Calendar

updated 7/16

The following events held in conjunction with the NEH Summer Institute are free and open to the public! For more information email bweber@complit.umass.edu or call 545-6685.

Subject to change. Please check this website for updates.

All films are German language with English subtitles with the exception of Germanin , which is not subtitled (see July 25).  

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Wednesday July 6
2:00 p.m Neilson Browsing Room, Smith College
Lecture: Cultural Dimensions of the Estrangement between the US and Europe
Konrad Jarausch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Center for Contemporary Historical Research, Potsdam.

Friday July 8
2:45 p.m. Academy of Music
Head-on . [Gegen die Wand]. Germany , Fatih Akin, 2004. 121 minutes. 35 mm.
 
Sunday July 10
7:30 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, Smith College
Die Patriotin [The Woman Patriot], FRG , Alexander Kluge, 1979. 121 minutes. 16 mm.
 
Monday July 11

9:00 a.m. Neilson Browsing Room, Smith College
Lecture: Rethinking German Film History , Katie Trumpener, Yale University
 

7:00 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, Smith College
Wittstock, Wittstock . Germany , Volker Koepp, 1997. 117 minutes. 16 mm.
 
9:15 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, Smith College
Grill Point [Halbe Treppe]. Germany , Andreas Dresen, 2002. 106 minutes. 16 mm.
 
Tuesday July 12
2:30 The Academy of Music
Blind Spot. Hitler's Secretary . Austria , André Heller and Othmar Schmiderer, 2002. 90 minutes. 35 mm.

7:30 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, Smith College
Downfall . Germany , Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004. 156 minutes.
 
Wednesday July 13
7 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, Smith College
Too Early, Too Late. France/Egypt, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, 1981. 100 minutes. 16 mm.

8:45 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium, Smith
O logischer Garten. FRG, Ingo Kratisch & Jutta Sartory, 1988. 85 minutes. 16 mm.

Thursday July 14
1:00 p.m. Graham Auditorium, Smith College
Death is My Trade [Aus einem deutschen Leben] . FRG , Theodor Kotulla, 1977. 145 minutes.

4 p.m. Graham Auditorium, Smith College
Lecture: Visual Documents and the Holocaust.
Eva Brücker, Information Center Historian, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin.

7:30 p.m.
Graham Auditorium, Smith College.
Verdict on Auschwitz. The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial of 1963-65 . Germany, Rolf Bickel and Dietrich Wagner. 2004. DVD . 60 minutes.

Followed by panel discussion with Eva Brücker, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe; Sigrid Bauschinger, UMass Amherst; Karen Remmler, Mt. Holyoke College and Katie Trumpener, Yale University. Moderated by Barton Byg, UMass Amherst.

Friday July 15
1:30 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, Smith College
Redupers . Helke Sander, FRG , 1978. 95 minutes. 16 mm.

3:15 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, Smith College
The Hunger Years . Jutta Brückner, FRG , 1980. 113 minutes. 16 mm.
 
Tuesday, July 19
7:30 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, Smith College
Good Bye Lenin . Germany , Wolfgang Becker, 2003. 121 minutes. DVD.
 
Wednesday July 20
2:30 p.m. The Academy of Music .
En garde. Ayse Polat, Germany 2004. 94 minutes. 35 mm.

Thursday July 21
7:30 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, Smith College
The Empty Center [Die leere Mitte]. Germany, Hito Steyerl, 1998. 64 minutes. DVD .

Friday July 22
9:00 a.m. Sage 215, Smith College
Lecture: Immigrant Intellectuals and German Feminism.
Encarnacion Gutiérrez Rodriguez.

Monday July 25
9:00 a.m. Neilson Browsing Room, Smith College
Lecture: Be Real Black for Me: Black Germans and African Diaspora in Europe.
Tina Campt, Duke University .

7:30 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, Smith College
Germanin – Die Geschichte einer kolonialen Tat . Max von Kimmich , Germany , 1943.
German language - No subtitles . 94 minutes. VHS.

Tuesday July 26
2:30 p.m. The Academy of Music
Nobi . GDR. Günter Rätz, 1963. Animation. 35 minutes. 35 mm.
The Scout. GDR, Konrad Petzold, 1983. 102 minutes. 35 mm.

Wednesday July 27
3:00 p.m. The Academy of Music
Toxi . FRG , Robert Stemmle, 1952. 88 minutes. 35 mm.
 
Thursday July 28
7:30 p.m. Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, Smith College
Everything Will Be Fine . Fatima El-Tayeb and Angelina Maccarone, FRG 1998. 88 minutes. DVD .

Friday, July 29
1:30 p.m. Neilson Browsing Room, Smith College
Panel Discussion (Sabine Bröck, Maria Diedrich, Tracy Sharpley-Whiting):
African-American and Diaspora Studies in Europe

Monday, August 1
9:00 a.m. Neilson Browsing Room, Smith College
Lecture (Thomas Lindenberger): Europeanizing Zeitgeschichte in Europe - and in the U.S.