Dear colleagues,

Please find below details of German research seminars and a postgraduate workshop within the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of Liverpool for the coming semester:

Wednesday 3 February 2010

Dr Frank Brunssen (University of Liverpool)

‘The Lexical Legacy of National Socialism in Contemporary Germany’

Friday 5 March

German Study Day: 'Twenty Years after the Fall of the Wall: Remembering the GDR'

Please contact Dr Andrew Plowman for more details: [log in to unmask]

Wednesday 10 March

Dr Andrew Plowman (University of Liverpool)

'Defending Germany on the Hindukush: The 'Out-of-Area' Deployments of the Bundeswehr in Somalia, Kosovo and Afghanistan in Recent Literature and Film'

Wednesday 28 April

Dr Chloe Paver (University of Exeter)

‘From Collector's Items to Bric-a-Brac: Valuing and Devaluing the National Socialist Object’

Thursday 29 April, 10am to 12 noon, Plenary Room, Graduate School Suite:

Dr Chloe Paver (University of Exeter)

Postgraduate workshop: 'Museums and the Materiality of Memory'

(followed by buffet lunch)

Please contact Dr Lyndy Stewart for more details: [log in to unmask]

Dr Lyn Marven

Lecturer in German

School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies

University of Liverpool

Chatham Street

Liverpool L69 7ZR

Tel: +44 151 794 2754