Published: May 9, 2016
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For the 3rd consecutive year, the University of 欧美口爆视频 is hosting the Boulder Summer Graduate Student Colloquium in German Studies from May 12-14, 2016. The Colloquium is organized in collaboration with Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, and, as a special guest institution this year, the University of Chicago. The center of the event will be presentations by graduate students from all four participating institutions. German Studies at 欧美口爆视频 Boulder will be represented this year by Ph.D. students Sayalee Karkare and Petra Sertic, who will present their work on the filmmaker Werner Herzog and the controversial artist Martin Kippenberger. They will be joined by six Ph.D. students from Cornell, JHU, and the University of Chicago who will present their work.

The Colloquium will open with a seminar by Dr. David E. Wellbery, Professor of German and the Humanities at the University of Chicago and one of the leading scholars and thinkers in the field of German Studies. Professor Wellbery鈥檚 seminar will be held in German and will address questions of freedom, myth, and social order in Johann Wolfgang Goethe鈥檚 drama Egmont听and the genre of the American Western. A reader for the seminar is available upon request (arne.hoecker@colorado.edu).

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