The Germany Semester

 

Why Germany?

United States-Germany Comparisons

Germany Resource Guide


List of Activities


German Prints from the Springfield Art Museum
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday - Friday
Aug. 25 through Sept. 19, 2008
Spiva Art Gallery on campus
Admission: free


Myth and Reality of the German Autobahn
9:30 a.m., Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

How Green Were the Nazis?
11:00 a.m., Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

German Film Festival: Run Lola Run (Lola rennt)
9:00 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
Courtyard at Student Residence Halls
Admission: free

Virtual Berlin: A Walk Through German History (part one)
9:00 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

Virtual Berlin: A Walk Through German History (part two)
11:00 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

Partei Volks
7:00 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008
Taylor Performing Arts Center balcony lounge
Admission: free

German Folklore: A Key to History
8:00 a.m., Friday, Sept. 5, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

The German Castle: From Fortress to Museum and Youth Hostel
10:00 a.m., Friday, Sept. 5, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

Pop-Cultural Relations Between Germany and the U.S.:
The Simpsons, Family Guy and Music as a Learning Experience

11:00 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free


The Fulbright Experience: An American Working in Germany
1:00 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

From Kindergarten to Hauptschule, Realschule or Gymnasium:
Which Middle School Would You Have Wanted to Attend?”

9:00 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

Examining the German University System: Does it Make More Sense?
11:00 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

The Cold War and the Fall of the Berlin Wall (or) Farewell Comrades, Hello Capitalism!
9:30 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

German Film Festival: Good Bye, Lenin!
2:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

German Film Festival: The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)
7:00 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

Alexander von Humboldt Explores the Americas in a Digital Library
10:00 a.m., Monday, Sept. 15, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

Albert Bloch, the Artist of the Blue Rider from Missouri
1:00 p.m., Monday, Sept. 15, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

Walden in the Bavarian Forest:
Adalbert Stifter, Henry David Thoreau, and the Transcendental Idea of Nature

12:00 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

German Philosophy Goes Green: The Ecological Imperative of Hans Jonas
2:00 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

Deutschmeister Brass Band
4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 to 11:00 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008
Hughes Stadium
Admission: free

17 Hippies
7:30 p.m., Monday, Sept. 22, 2008
Taylor Performing Arts Center
Admission: free

German Film Festival: Metropolis
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

So Unlike Ours: German Elections, German Parties
10:00 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free


Your Dignity, Not Your Happiness: The Principle Values of the German Constitution
1:00 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

Bus trip to Kansas City Oktoberfest
10:00 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008
Depart from Webster Hall parking lot
Bus trip is free; admission is $5


Germany’s Business IT after the Big Bang
1:00 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

Night and Day: Science in Berlin
8:00 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008
Webster Auditorium
Admission: free

Jazz in Germany: A View from the Capital
9:30 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008
Webster Auditorium
Admission: free

German Literature: The 21st Century
11:00 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008
Webster Auditorium
Admission: free

Festhaus-Musikanten
12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008
Hughes Stadium
Admission: free

The Social Market Economy in Germany and the Challenges of Globalization
11:00 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

The German Business Environment
1:00 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

German Film Festival: The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

Beer is Life: The Relationship of Beer to German History, Culture, and Everyday Life
12:00 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

Imported Brewers: How German-Americans Changed the History of Beer
1:00 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

German Film Festival: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari)
8:00 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008
Courtyard at Student Residence Halls
Admission: free

Southern Theatre presents: Gas
7:30 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday, Oct. 14-18, 2008
Bud Walton Theatre
Admission: free to students, faculty, staff; $3 for adults; $1 for senior citizens and high school students

The Impossible and the Necessary: Jewish Life in Germany from the Middle Ages to the Present
8:00 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

The Jews of Germany after the Holocaust
9:30 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

Flowerless Gardeners: Barbaric Poetry after Auschwitz
11:00 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

Germany’s Coming to Terms with the Holocaust
1:00 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

Faculty Recital of German Clarinet Works - Dr. Cheryl Cifelli
7:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008
Corley Auditorium in Webster Hall

Bus trip to Tulsa Oktoberfest
10:00 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008
Depart from Webster Hall parking lot
Bus trip is free; admission is $5

Not a Bunch of Bologna: Reforms in German Higher Education
10:00 a.m., Monday, Oct. 20, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

German Film Festival: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf)
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

The World is Our Oyster: Love and Friendship After the Wall
10:00 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

That Warm, Fuzzy Feeling of Togetherness: On Growing Up in the GDR
6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

The Most Important Thing Is to Win: Competition in East Germany
9:30 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

Gockel International Symposium
The Importance of the Transatlantic Relationship in a Globalized World
9:30 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008
Taylor Performing Arts Center
Admission: free

Gockel International Symposium
Gulliver’s Travail: Crafting a Transatlantic Foreign Policy After the Cold War
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

NATO’s Future: Regeneration, Stable Condition, or Terminal Decline?
11:00 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

German Film Festival: East of War (Jenseits des Krieges)
7:00 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 29, 2008
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

Germans in the Making of Our Nation
10:00 a.m., Monday, Nov. 3, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

Germans in the Making of Missouri
12:00 p.m., Monday, Nov. 3, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

Grimm for Grownups
1:00 p.m., Monday, Nov. 10, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

Cheerfully Grimm
6:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 10, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

German Film Festival: Beyond Silence (Jenseits der Stille)
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

“I Go to Fight Mit Sigel!”: The Contribution of German Immigrant and German-American Soldiers
in the American Civil War

7:00 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

Little Germanies in Kansas and Missouri: Kannst du Deitsch plaudern?
9:00 a.m., Friday, Nov. 14, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

Ei, du schöne Schnitzelbank!:
A Never-Ending Story in American Popular Culture

11:00 a.m., Friday, Nov. 14, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

Deutsche Meisterwerke - A concert of German masterworks by Southern Symphony Orchestra
7:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 14, 2008
Taylor Performing Arts Center
Admission: free

The Origins and Development of the German National Character: From Caesar to Nietzsche
9:00 a.m., Monday, Nov. 24, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

My Experiences in the ‘Unbelievable Society: The German Democratic Republic
12:00 p.m., Monday, Nov. 24, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

German Film Festival: Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas)
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

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