German

Introduction and panel discussion by Assistant Professor of German Jill Smith, Postdoctoral Fellow in German Edward Muston, and Bart D'Alauro '95, Owner of Bart and Greg's DVD Explosion!, Brunswick, ME. 

"Noir Environmentalism: The Aesthetics of Rubble and the Allure of Destruction."

Jennifer Fay is director of film studies and associate professor of film studies and English at Vanderbilt University. This talk focuses on American and German noirs made just after World War II that take place in desolated urban locations (in both Germany and the United States), where the rubble is a sight of touristic allure and a symptom of how all great cities rise, fall, and rise again.

Sponsored by the German Embassy "Think Transatlantic" initiative, the Departments of German and English, and the Film Studies Program.

"The Night That Changed World Literature"
Franz Kafka's The Judgment

One hundred years ago, on the night of September 22-23, Franz Kafka composed his "breakthrough" work The Judgment. The Department of German presents a reading of the text in English translation to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of this seminal event in the history of world literature.

Open to the public. Admission is free.

Sponsored by the Department of German.

*This reading is in the original German.  The English reading is on Tuesday, Sept.25th*