Peter Hess, Chair
BUR 336, Mailcode C3300, Austin, TX 78712-0304 • 512-471-4123
Past Symposia
- 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
Historical Symposia
- 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)



