The Department of German at the University of Cambridge is hosting a series
of lectures on the history of German in the coming term.
All are welcome.
Landmarks in the History of the German Language
Michaelmas Term 2002, Thursdays 5pm
Lecture Block Room 1, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge
10th October DR J. WEST (Newcastle)
Landmark Text:
The Bible in German
17th October PROF. H.-J. SOLMS (Halle-Wittenberg)
Landmark Sound Change:
Monophthonge und Diphthonge
im Mittelhochdeutschen
(This lecture will be held in German)
24th October PROF. R. McKITTERICK (Cambridge)
Landmark Figure:
Charlemagne, Language and Literacy
31st October PROF. W.J.JONES (Royal Holloway London)
Landmark Metatexts: Dictionaries and their Role
in the Formation of German (1691-1873)
7th November DR N. LANGER (Bristol)
Landmark Process:
Low German. Death of a (Written) Dialect
14th November PROF. M. DURRELL (Manchester)
Landmark Identity:
Deutsch: Teutons, Germans or Dutch?
The Problems of Defining a Nation
21st November DR J. WHALEY (Cambridge)
Landmark Words:
Reich, Volk and Nation
28th November DR G. HORAN (University College London)
Landmark Gender:
Women's Discourse under National Socialism
Department of German
University of Cambridge
Tel.: 335037 Website: www.mml.cam.ac.uk/german/news
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Dr Sheila Watts
University Lecturer in German
Newnham College
Cambridge CB3 9DF
Telephone +44-1223-335816
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