Past Symposia

• March 3, 2012:  Fourth Biennial German Studies Workshop:  Reset/Reboot/Recoup:  The New College Language and Cultural Studies [download program | download flyer]
• March 2, 2012: Fourth Biennial Germanic Graduate Student Conference:  "Not Your Grandma's German(ic Language) Class:  Language, Literature, and Culture in 21st-Century Education" [download program| download poster]
• April 15-16, 2011: The Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 17 (GLAC 17)
• September 30 - October 3:  Cold War Cultures: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
• March 26-27, 2010: Rethinking German-Turkish Cinema (Third German Studies Workshop)
• October 7, 10-12, 2008: 1968: A Global Perspective (co-sponsor and co-organized for Comparative Literature)
• September 26-28, 2008: Fifth International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-5)
• 28-29 March 2008: Berlin, Divided City (Second German Studies Workshop)
• 28-29 March 2008: Berlin, Divided City (Graduate Student Conference)
• Prison Conference, 24-25 April 2006 (Download Press Release); co-sponsored by Swedish Studies Excellence Endowment
• 2006 German Studies Workshop (MS-Word doc): History Lessons: German Films about the Third Reich and the Holocaust
• Past Linguistic Circle Meetings
• Sweden Across the Disciplines, 2005-2006, 2004/05
• Special Film Events, 2004/05
• DAAD and The Texas Chair: International Lecture Series 2004/2005, Landscape and Mentality
• Southwest Consortium Workshop for German History, Literature, and Society, 2005
• Lunchtime Lectures: Work in Progress Series, 2004/05
• DAAD Lecture Series 2004
• Two Lectures by Michael Augustin: November 4 and 5, 2003
• Colloquium Series by Jan Donkers, Spring 2003
• Sumposia on Multicultural Germany, Organized by Barbara Wolbert
• Conference on "Six Other Flags Over Texas," March, 28 and 29, 2003
• Swedish Excellence Endowment Symposia
• Lecture Series by Joachim Gauck
• International Symposium on Swedish Inventions and Inventors
• Swedish Symposium: The Nobel Prizes
• Graduate Student Symposia
• Medieval Symposium: Papers-in-Progress, 27 September 2002
• Workshop: Chrétien de Troyes and His Legacy
• Characters in Context Lectures
• Earlier CiC Lectures

• 1959: A Schiller Symposium (A. Leslie Willson)
• 1960: A Hegel Symposium (Don Travis)
• 1961: The German Theater Today (Leroy Shaw)
• 1962: Introduction of Modernity (Robert Mollenauer)
• 1963: Literary Symbolism (Helmut Rehder)
• 1964: Old Norse Literature and Mythology (Edgar Polomé
• 1965: The Contemporary Novel in German (Heitner)
• 1966: Formal Aspects of Medieval German Poetry (Stanley Werbow)
• 1967: The German Baroque: Literature, Music, Architecture (George Schulz-Behrend)
• 1968: The German Language in America (Gilbert)
• 1970: Günter Grass (A. Leslie Willson)
• 1971: Myth and Reason (Walter Wetzels)
• 1972: The Hero in Scandinavian Literature (John Weinstock)
• 1973: Modernism in the Low Countries (1915-1930) (Frans Bulhof, Edgar Polomé)
• 1976: The Third International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics (John Weinstock)
• 1976: The Fourth Congress of the International Brecht Society (Betty Weber, Hubert Heinen)
• 1980: Literature and History (Leonard Schulze, Walter Wetzels)
• 1981: Linnaeus Symposium (John Weinstock)