All Events

Public Conversation with Austrian Ambassador His Excellency Martin Weiss

Friday, April 8, 2022

The State as Experiment. Symposium in Memory of Josef Popper-Lynkeus

Thursday, April 7, 2022

The State as Experiment. Symposium in Memory of Josef Popper-Lynkeus
Wednesday, April 6, 2022

George Steinmetz (University of Michigan): The Fall and Rise of Empires and States
Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Virtual Symposium on Nosferatu, with Paul Dobryden (UVA German)
Friday, March 18, 2022

Memory and Democracy Study Tour to Weimar and Berlin.

Sunday, March 6, 2022

Kobi Kabalek (Penn State): Memories of Rescuing Jews in Postwar Germany
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Esther Dischereit: "Voices of Survivors: Responses to a Racist Attack in Germany and Jewish-Muslim Alliances"
Monday, November 15, 2021

1700 Years of Jewish Life in German Speaking Lands: Roundtable with Esther Dischereit and UVA Professors
Monday, November 15, 2021

"Sophie Scholl: The Final Days": Film screening. Introduction by Manuela Achilles (UVA Depts. of German and History)
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Film Screening of "Masel Tov Cocktail" (Germany 2020), followed by a cconversation with the filmmakers
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

German Election Day Brunch, hosted by the German pod in the Shea House
Sunday, September 26, 2021

Germany After Merkel. Conversation with Consul General Niels von Redecker (German Embassy, Washington, D.C.)
Monday, September 20, 2021

Yiddish Song Concert Performed Live from Berlin
Sunday, April 18, 2021

David Blackbourn (Vanderbilt): “Time is a Violent Torrent": Writing the River History of Modern Germany
Monday, April 12, 2021

Art in the Era of COVID-19: A Conversation with German Artist Dennis Meseg about his Corona Memorial

Thursday, November 12, 2020

International Cooperation in the Era of COVID-19. A Transatlantic Dialogue in the Wake of the US Presidential Election
Thursday, November 5, 2020

Community Solidarity and the History of Emotions in the Age of COVID-19. With Anja Laukötter (MPI) & James Hawdon (VT)
Thursday, October 29, 2020

Richard J. Evans (U Cambridge): Death in Hamburg Revisited: What Can We Learn from the 1892 Cholera Epidemic?
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Sven-Erik Rose (UC Davis): "Writing in the Face of Catastrophe: Holocaust Literature from the Ghettos"
Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Mohamed Amjahid (Berlin): “When ‘Never Again’ Ends...How White Supremacy is Threatening Democracy in Germany Today”
Tuesday, March 3, 2020

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 100th Anniversary Screening
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Adrienne Merritt (Washington and Lee): "Anti-Racist Universal Deign in Pedagogy: Why Inclusion Benefits All".
Friday, February 14, 2020

Florent Brayard (EHESS, Paris): "Wannsee and Beyond: Civil Administration and the Final Solution"
Thursday, February 13, 2020

Samuel Clowes Huneke (GMU): "Homosexuality and the State in Cold War Germany".
Thursday, February 6, 2020

Workshop (rsvp required): Florent Brayard (EHESS, Paris): "To 'exterminate' -- Hitler, the Germans, and the Jews"
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Florent Brayard (EHESS, Paris): "Editing Hitler: Mein Kampf as a Text"
Thursday, January 23, 2020

Public Lecture of Her Excellency Dr. Emily Haber, German Ambassador to the United States
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

"Monument Lab: On Monumental Remediation and Reckoning." Colloquium with Paul Farber (University of Pennsylvania)
Monday, November 4, 2019

"A Wall of Our Own: An American History of the Berlin Wall." Public Lecture by Paul Farber (University of Pennsylvania)
Monday, November 4, 2019

"The Fall of the Berlin Wall in Global Perspective." With Philip Zelikow, Penny von Eschen, Kyrill Kunakhovich, and Allen Lynch

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

"Racial Science and Nazi Biopolitics," Lunchtime Talk by Dr. Richard Wetzell (German Historical Institute)
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Lecture and Colloquium with Michael Kleeberg (German Writer and Translator)
Monday, October 21, 2019

"The Power of Emotions." Exhibit Opening by Dr. Niels von Redecker (Director of the German Information Center)

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

"Good Bye, Lenin!" Free Screening of comic-tragic film about family, love and trauma in hte aftermath of the Fall of the Berlin Wall (2003)
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Dr. Niels von Redecker (Director, German Information Center): "Germany and the US 30 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall"

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Film Screening of GDR Documentary "From Us to Me" (2016), Followed by Q&A with British Filmmaker Ellin Hare (UK)
Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Film Screening: "From Marks and Spencer to Marx and Engels" (1988), Followed by Q&A with British Filmmaker Ellin Hare
Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Europe, Quo Vadis? A Conversation about Post/National Identity with Ruth Wodak (Lancaster Univ./Univ. of Vienna)
Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Ruth Wodak (Univ. of Vienna/Lancaster Univ.): "The Politics of Fear: European and Transatlantic Perspectives"
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Priscilla Layne (UNC Chapel Hill): "Afrofuturist Challenges to Humanism in the Fiction of Sharon Dodua Otoo"
Friday, April 19, 2019

Irene Motyl-Mudretzkyj (Barnard College at Columbia University): "Vienna Stories: Cultural Awareness, Film-Making, and Digital Storytelling"
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Film Screening: "Milli's Awakening", followed by Q&A with film director Natasha A. Kelly
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Transatlantic Research and Teaching Collaboration on Memory, Democracy, and Transformation
Monday, April 8, 2019

Film Screening: "Cold War" (2018). Free Pizza!
Tuesday, March 5, 2019

RESCHEDULED: Jeffrey Grossman (UVa German): "The Healing-Killing Paradox in Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow"
Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Stephanie Rotem (Visiting Professor, UVa Jewish Studies Program): "Holocaust Museums: Past, Present and (is there a?) Future"
Thursday, February 7, 2019

German Movie Night: Tschick/Goodbye Berlin (German with English Subtitles)
Wednesday, February 6, 2019

German Tutoring Information and Feedback Session, hosted by the German Studies Student Council
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

German Movie Night: "The Marriage of Maria Braun" (Germany 1978)
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Gabriele Riedle (Journalist, and Max Kade Professor at UVa): "Reporters at War"
Friday, November 30, 2018

Marcel Schmid (UVa German): "The Esoteric Roots of Seriality: Kammerer, Jung, and Koestler"
Thursday, November 15, 2018

Tenth Anniversary Celebration of the Center for German Studies

Thursday, November 8, 2018

Klaus Theweleit (Sociologist and Writer): "Male Fantasies Revisited: What's New About the Alt-Right. From Chemnitz to Charlottesville"
Thursday, November 8, 2018

William Coker (Bilkent University and CGS): "Novel or New Mythology? Hölderlin's Hyperion and Shelley's Frankenstein"
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Prof. Peter Burgard (Harvard): "Nietzsche and the Ethics of Atheism"
Friday, October 12, 2018

Prof. Xu Xing (Nanjing University): "Commemoration of the Nanjing Massacre and the Holocaust: A Comparative Perspective"
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

"Activism and Authoritarianism" – Lunch Conversation with Dr. Ellen Uebershaer (Heinrich Boell Foundation)

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

"Dealing with the Past in the Era of Authoritarian Movements" – Faculty Roundtable with Dr. Uebershaer, President of the Boell Foundation
Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Presentation by Dr. Nicole Hemmer (UVa Miller Center) on her Potcast Series "A 12"
Monday, October 1, 2018

Victoria Saker Woeste (American Bar Foundation): "The Antisemitic Origins of 'Fake News' and the Fate of American Democracy"
Monday, September 17, 2018

Paul Dobryden (UVa German): "Hygiene on Screen: The Visual Rhetoric of Health in Weimar Cinema"
Friday, September 14, 2018

Klezmer Ensemble With Special Guest, Trumpeter-Composer Paul Brody; Concert.
Thursday, April 19, 2018

Paul Brody (Berlin): "Explorations in Music-Theater: Blurring the Lines;" Colloquium, Open to the Public.
Thursday, April 19, 2018

Paul Brody (Berlin): "Wanderings in a German-Jewish Landscape: Living in the Between;" Colloquium. Please RSVP.
Monday, April 16, 2018

Sanctuary and Belonging Capstone: Giovanni Peri (University of California at Davis): “Immigration Policies: Economic Opportunity and Political Consequences”
Friday, April 13, 2018

Sanctuary and Belonging Symposium: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Flight, Refuge, and Community."
Friday, April 13, 2018

Sanctuary and Belonging Keynote: Julian Nida-Rümelin (University of Munich): “Ethics of Migration”
Friday, April 13, 2018

Sanctuary and Belonging Opening Lecture: Armin Langer (Author, Berlin): "Who Belongs to the Country?"
Thursday, April 12, 2018

Opening of Traveling Exhibit on America’s Response to the Armenian Genocide. Followed by a Reception.
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Film Screening: "Though Shall Not Perish," followed by a discussion with Charles Benjamin (Near East Foundation)

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

The Past in the Present: Transatlantic Teaching and Research Collaboration on Memory, Responsibility & Transformation.

Friday, March 30, 2018

The Past in the Present: Transatlantic Teaching & Research Collaboration on Memory, Responsibility, and Transformation.

Thursday, March 29, 2018

The Past in the Present: Transatlantic Teaching & Research Collaboration on Memory, Responsibility, and Transformation.

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

The Past in the Present: Transatlantic Teaching & Research Collaboration on Memory, Responsibility, and Transformation.

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

The Past in the Present: Transatlantic Teaching & Research Collaboration on Memory, Responsibility, and Transformation.

Monday, March 26, 2018

Thomas Lekan (University of South Carolina): "Thinking Locally, Acting Globally: A German Zookeeper's Quest to Save the Serengeti, 1950-1966".
Thursday, March 15, 2018

Geoff Eley (University of Michigan): "Current Thinnking About Nationalism;" Workshop, Please RSVP.
Monday, February 19, 2018

Geoff Eley (University of Michigan): "Fascism and Antifascism, 1920-2020;" Lecture; Open to the Public.
Monday, February 19, 2018

Robin Ellis (Davidson College): “Theater of Refuge: Jelinek’s Charges and the Versatorium Translation Collective”.
Friday, February 16, 2018

Information Session: Germany Study Abroad with the UVa Landscape Studies Initiative
Thursday, February 15, 2018

Timothy Snyder (Yale University): "On Tyranny: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century"

Friday, December 8, 2017

Imran Ayata, German Author in Residence: Presentation of "Songs of Gastarbeiter" (in English)
Thursday, November 30, 2017

Imran Ayata, German Author in Residence: Reading and Discussion (in German)
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

German Film Series on Displacement and Belonging: "The Edge of Heaven" (2007)
Friday, November 17, 2017

Virginia Film Festival: "Mood and Memory," Film Screening and Discussion with Esther Dischereit

Sunday, November 12, 2017

Conference on "Emerging Questions in Holocaust Testimonies Research"
Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Conference on "Emerging Questions in Holocaust Testimonies Research"
Monday, November 6, 2017

Lawrence Langer (Professor Emeritus, Simmons College): "Emerging Questions in Holocaust Testimonies Research"
Sunday, November 5, 2017

German Film Series on Displacement and Belonging: "Phoenix" (2014)
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Nicholas Kristof (New York Times): "Sanctuary and Belonging: Reflections after August 11 & 12"

Monday, October 23, 2017

German Film Series on Displacement and Belonging: "Almanya" (2011)
Thursday, October 5, 2017

"The Fascist Threat." Teach-In with Manuela Achilles, William Hitchcock, James Loeffler, Kyrill Kunakhovich, and Sarah Milov

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Prof. Paul Jones (UVa Religious Studies): "The Barmen Declaration (1934): The German 'Confessing Church' in Protest Against Nazism"
Monday, September 25, 2017

Oktoberfest Cooking Class
Saturday, September 23, 2017

German Election Day Brunch
Saturday, September 23, 2017

German Film Series on Displacement and Belonging: "A Very German Welcome" (2015)
Thursday, September 21, 2017

German Election Exhibition in Nau Commons
Thursday, September 21, 2017

German Election Roundtable with Matthias Wehler (Spokesperson of the German Embassy, Washington, D.C.)
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

German Election Exhibition in Nau Commons
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

German Election Exhibition in Nau Commons
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

German Film Series on Displacement and Belonging: "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul" (1974)
Thursday, September 7, 2017

German Play: Tieck's "Der Gestiefelte Kater"
Sunday, April 30, 2017

UVa Klezmer Ensemble With Lorin Sklamberg of the Klezmatics
Thursday, April 27, 2017

German Play: Tieck's "Der Gestiefelte Kater
Thursday, April 27, 2017

Colloquium with Lorin Sklamberg of The Klezmatics
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Opening of Traveling Exhibit on America’s Response to the Armenian Genocide. Followed by a reception.
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

1917/2017: Europe, the United States, and the New Isolationisms (Symposium)
Thursday, April 6, 2017

German Film Festival
Sunday, March 26, 2017

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Memory, Conference
Saturday, March 25, 2017

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Memory, Conference
Friday, March 24, 2017

Hagi Kenaan (Tel Aviv University): "Celan and Heidegger: Hope at the Mountain of Death"
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Global History of Black Girlhood Conference
Saturday, March 18, 2017

Global History of Black Girlhood Conference
Friday, March 17, 2017

Reading and Discussion: Armin Langer (Author and Activist, Berlin): "A Jew from the No-Go-Area"

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

David Tomkins (Carleton College): "The East is Red? Imagining China in People's Poland and East Germany".
Thursday, March 2, 2017

Michael Weinman (UVa): "Arendt and the Legitimate Expectation for Hospitality and Membership Today,"
Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Jeffrey Goldfarb (NSSR): "To Write Poetry after Auschwitz is (NOT!) Barbaric"
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Hans Joas Reading Group
Friday, February 17, 2017

Laurens Westhoff (Ambassador to Egypt of the Netherlands): "Will the EU Survive 2017?"
Monday, February 6, 2017

Mozart in Winter (Music at UVa; Free Event)
Saturday, January 28, 2017

German Movie Night: "Downfall" (2004)
Tuesday, November 29, 2016

David Petruccelli (The Diplomatic Academy of Vienna): "The Samuel Lubelski White Slavery Trial of 1914: Human Trafficking, Migration, and National Difference at the Polish-German Border"
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Virginia Film Festival Highlights: A Conversation with Werner Herzog
Saturday, November 5, 2016

Virginia Film Festival Highlights: Filming at the Borders. Migrating to Europe Today
Saturday, November 5, 2016

Virginia Film Festival Highlights: Filming at the Border. Migrating to Europe Today
Friday, November 4, 2016

Virginia Film Festival Highlights: Filming at the Borders. Migrating to Europe Today
Thursday, November 3, 2016

Reading and Discussion: Esther Dischereit (German Jewish Author, Berlin/Vienna)
Thursday, October 27, 2016

Reading and Discussion: August Schmölzer (Austrian Writer and Actor)
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

German Movie Night: "The Edge of Heaven" (2007)
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

The European Union Post-Brexit. A Discussion with Former Austrian Ambassador Dr. Wendelin Ettmayer
Wednesday, October 12, 2016

German Movie Night: "The Invention of the Curried Sausage" (2008)
Tuesday, October 11, 2016

German Movie Night: "Phoenix" (2014)
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Kaffeestunde
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Kaffeestunde
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

German Movie Night: "Barbara" (2012)
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Flight and Refuge: The European Crisis in Global Perspective
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Flight and Refuge: The European Crisis in Global Perspective
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

German Movie Night: The Wave (Die Welle)
Wednesday, April 6, 2016

German Movie Night: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes)
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

German Movie Night: Europa Europa (Hitlerjunge Salomon)
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Andreas Etges (University of Munich): "Kennedy, Khrushchev, King, and Springsteen. Staging Visits in Cold War Berlin."
Monday, March 21, 2016

German Film Festival and Film Shorts Contest

Saturday, March 19, 2016

German Ambassador Peter Wittig
Monday, March 14, 2016

UVa Klezmer Ensemble Fall 2015 Concert, under the direction of Joel Rubin.
Thursday, November 19, 2015

Dr. Waitman Beorn (Virginia Holocaust Museum): A Hybrid Horror: The Janowska Camp and a New Categorization of Nazi Camps
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Waitman Beorn (Virginia Holocaust Museum): “A Hybrid Horror: The Janowska Camp and a New Categorization of Nazi Camps."
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Bernd Koerte-Braun (Free University of Berlin): "The Taking and Passing on of Holocaust Testimonies in Different Media." RSVP required.
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Michael Meng (Clemson University): "History as Critique: Arendt's Interpretation of Nazism".
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

UVA McIntire Department of Music Presents: Faust
Saturday, November 7, 2015

General Meeting of CGS Affiliates (UVa)
Friday, November 6, 2015

German Movie Night: Der Baader Meinhof Komplex

Monday, November 2, 2015

Mona Koerte, Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor: "Wo verhandelt wird. Kabinettskrieg und „Frauenzimmer“ in Lessings Minna von Barnhelm"
Friday, October 30, 2015

Bayern München versus Eintracht Frankfurt, at the German House
Friday, October 30, 2015

German Movie Night: Lola rennt (Run Lola Run)

Monday, October 26, 2015

Oktoberfest!
Friday, October 23, 2015

German Movie Night: Das Weiße Band (The White Ribbon)

Monday, October 19, 2015

Film Screening by the Fralin Museum of Art: "Making a Killing"

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Kaffeestunde
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

German Movie Night: Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)

Monday, October 12, 2015

Richard J. Gunst Colloquium Spiritual Homelands – Wahlheimat – Elective Exiles
Thursday, October 8, 2015

Workshop for Teachers of German
Friday, September 18, 2015

Public Lecture: Ralf Fuecks (President of the Heinrich Boell Foundation)
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Austrian Ambassador Hans Peter Manz
Thursday, February 26, 2015

"Schwalbenflug" Graduate Student Conference, Feb. 20-21
Friday, February 20, 2015

Colloquium: "Hermann Cohen and Franz Rosenzweig on Revelation"
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

German Kaffeestunde
Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Participate in our Essay Competition
Sunday, April 1, 2012

Dr. Barbara Gügold, Director of IES Abroad Berlin, "Germany Today: Not Separate, Yet Not Quite Unified"
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

End of the Year Concert with Peter Bernhardt
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Max Kade Lecture and Workshop
Friday, November 13, 2009

The German Unification from an Economic Perspective
Monday, September 28, 2009

German Ambassador on Grounds
Thursday, April 16, 2009

Cultural Studies and the German Tradition
Friday, March 27, 2009

Graduate Student Conference
Sunday, February 1, 2009

CGS Workshop – Roundtable
Saturday, November 22, 2008

A Successful Launch of UVA's Center for German Studies
Friday, October 24, 2008

German Movie Night: "Jacob the Liar (1974)