Embedded Files
Events
Events
Please email Luci Cook (lucicook@umich.edu) if you have questions or would like to co-sponsor an event.
Note: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, some planned activities will be on Zoom and all in-person activities will cohere with CDC and U-M guidelines.
More Upcoming Events
More Upcoming Events
Please check back later this summer for a tentative schedule of the 2024-2025 events!
Upcoming Events:
Upcoming Events:
May :
- Monday, 6th: End of Year BBQ, 4:30pm by the Bell Tower
Past Events:
2022-2023
Past Events:
2022-2023
Friday, March 10, 2-4pm
Placeless Identity, Transgenerational Trauma: A Reading and Conversation with Marina Frenk
VIRTUAL: Marina Frenk will read from her debut novel ewig her und gar nicht wahr (Berlin 2020). She will be introduced by Ph.D. candidate Lauren Beck, one of Frenk's translators, who organized this event and will lead the discussion
Friday, March 21, 2-4pm
Ada's Room: Realms in Translation
with Sharon Dodua Otoo
More information and registration for the event by clicking the link above.
Saturday, April 01, 2-3pm.
DETROIT:
Join Source Booksellers to celebrate Ada's Room with author Sharon Dodua Otoo, a celebrated voice in German Literature.
More info and registration at link above.
Previous Events:
Previous Events:
2021-2022
Friday, Sept. 17 @ 4-5pm: Welcome Back meeting to meet new members, catch up on each other's work, and plan for the upcoming academic year.
Tuesday, Nov. 30 @ 5:30pm: The European History Workshop and Alamanya: Transnational Germany Studies RIWs hosted Dr. Kira Thurman for a book discussion on her recently published monograph Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms (2021).
Monday, Feb. 21 @ 2-3pm: Reading group session to discuss Hengameh Yaghoobifarah's novel Ministerium der Träume (2021).
Friday, Feb. 25 @ 6-8pm: Viewing of the Gorki Theater's stream of the theater adaptation of Olivia Wenzel's novel 1000 Serpentinen Angst (2020), directed by Anta Helena Recke.
Friday, Mar. 14 @ 2pm: Workshop Veronica Williamson's dissertation chapter draft on Weiter Schreiben and multilingual publishing in Germany today.
2020-2021:
Monday, Sept. 21 @ 3-5pm: Discussion on the intersection of pedagogy and research, including a working session to expand on the resources used in German Studies at Michigan to include more ‘transnational’ perspectives.
Wednesday, Sept. 30 @ 12-1pm: Welcome Back meeting to meet new members, catch up on each other's work, and plan for the upcoming academic year.
Monday, Nov. 16 @ 12pm: Reading group session to discuss Can Merey's novel Der ewige Gast and Fatih Akin's film The Cut.
Monday, Dec. 7 @ 3-4pm: Follow-up discussion on the intersection of pedagogy and research that encourages academic collaboration at the nexus of nation, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and religion in the German sphere, broadly defined.
Tuesday, Dec. 22 @ 12pm: Workshop Özlem Karuc's translations (German to English) of several unpublished poems by Zafer Şenocak.
Wednesday, Jan. 27 @ 12-1pm: Welcome (back) reception to gather ideas for books/texts to read for the upcoming culminating event.
Friday, Jan. 29 @ 2-5pm: Asynchronous film screening of Sheri Hagen's inspiring film At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) and a Q&A with the director. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, and Alamanya RIW.
Feb.: Practical workshop discussion on approaching and planning a research project and different stages of the writing process followed by discussions of graduate student writings.
Monday, Mar. 8 @ 12:30pm: Reading group session on Francoise Lionnet adn Shu-Mei Shih's Introduction to Minor Transnationalism (2005), "Thinking through the Minor, Transnationally"; Tupoka Ogette's exit RACISM (excerpts); Sharon Dodua Otoo's "Whtnacig Pnait (Watching Paint)"; Katherine Pence and Andrew Zimmerman's "Transnationalism."
Apr.: Culminating event in collaboration with King's College titled “German Transnationalism and questions of racism in Germany.” Graduate students and faculty present 5-10 minute flash talks on their research followed by group discussions.
2019-2020:
Monday, Sept. 9 @ 12pm (MLB 3308): Semester Kickoff Welcome Reception
Wednesday, Oct. 23 @ 7pm (North Quad 2435): German Film Series screening of the documentary film The Aryans/Die Arier (2014) followed by a Q&A session with director Mo Asumang. Light snacks and refreshments provided. Co-sponsored by the German Department Film Series.
Tuesday, Oct. 29 @ 12:30-2pm (MLB 3308): Book discussion on Jennifer Miller’s Turkish Guest Workers in Germany (Introduction & Chapter 5: Imperfect Solidarities) and selections from Fatma Aydemir’s Ellbogen. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
Monday, Nov. 18 @ 7pm (2435 North Quad): German Film Series screening of Wolfgang Fischer's Styx (2019)
Thursday, Dec. 4 @ 1:30-2:30pm (MLB 3308): Workshop graduate student essays and learn about your peers' research interests. Snacks and refreshments will be provided, readers will be provided with the draft a week before.
Monday, Jan. 13 @ 7pm (2435 North Quad): German Film Series screening of Christian Petzold's Transit (2018)
Tuesday, Jan. 21 @11am (MLB 3117): Welcome Back Reception to kick off the semester
Monday, Feb. 10 @ 7pm (2435 North Quad): German Film Series screening of Arman Riahi's Darkhead (2011)
Tuesday, Feb. 25 @11am (MLB 3117): Winter book discussion of Max Czollek's Desintegriert Euch! and Rasha Khayat's Weil wir längst woanders sind. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
Friday, Mar 20 @3pm (1220 MLB): CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 Screening of Oray and Q&A with director Mehmet Büyütakalay
2018 - 2019:
Friday, Oct. 26 2018 @ 2pm (MLB 3308): Public talk by Katrin Sieg (Georgetown University) titled, "Decolonizing European History at the Museum." Co-sponsored by Alamanya and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature. Talk followed by a discussion.
Monday, Oct. 29 2018 @ 12:30pm (MLB 3308): Workshop graduate student papers from Lauren Beck (German) and Özlem Karuç (German)
Wednesday, Nov. 28 2018 @ 6:30pm (MLB 1220): Screening of film Biutiful (2010), with English subtitles.
Friday, Nov. 30 @ 2pm (MLB 3308): Public talk by Claudia Breger (Columbia University) titled, "Making Worlds: Affect and Collectivity in Contemporary European Cinema." Sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. Talk followed by a discussion.
January 14 @ 12pm (MLB 3308): Welcome(back) reception
February 20 @ 6pm: Screening of Natasha Kelly's most recent film Millis Erwachen / Milli's Awakening (2018, in German with English subtitles) with Q&A afterwards in English
March 18 @ 11am: (German Department Seminar Room) Workshop graduate student essays by Paige Newhouse (History) and Veronica Williamson (German)
April 12 @ 3pm (MLB 3308): Visit and talk by Priscilla Layne titled, "Afrofuturist Challenges to Humanism: The Fiction of Sharon Dodua Otoo." Co-sponsored by Alamanya and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature. Talk followed by a discussion.
2015-2017:
Nov. 19th, 2015 @ 2:30pm (German Department Seminar Room): Workshop our member Mary Hennessy’s (German) essay, “Fassbinder’s Martha and the Female Complaint: Estranging the 1940s Hollywood Women’s Film,” which she is currently preparing for 2016 publication in The German Quarterly.
December 12, 2015: Reading group on on the 2005 essay collection Minor Transnationalism (ed. Francoise Lionnet and Shumei Shih) to provide a common theoretical framework from which to approach the topic of transnationalism.
January 2016: Welcome reception for Alamanya to network with past and present Alamanya members and to raise Alamanya’s on-campus profile. At this time, we will distribute the Winter 2016 calendar of events. Our Winter 2016 topic is the Europe-wide refugee crisis, with a focus on the far-reaching implications of the recent influx of migrants for German society at large; among other topics, we will discuss recent changes to German asylum law, the highly debated proposal for a quota-system to distribute refugees amongst EU states, and the critical role that Germany continues to play within the crisis at large.
February 2016: Viewing of the 2014 feature film Wir sind jung, wir sind stark ( Burhan Qurbani) which was shortlisted for Germany’s submission to the Academy Awards. Wir sind jung, wir sind stark retells the events leading up to the 1992 rightwing extremist attacks on a refugee housing center in the northeastern city of RostockLichtenhagen. As such, the film offers an important historical context to the current situation, as such rightwing extremism in the early 1990s was largely in response to an influx of refugees from the Balkans at the onset of the Balkan wars. In screening this film, we hope to engage viewers in a discussion of the potential parallels, and crucial differences between the early 1990s and the contemporary crisis.
April 2016: Visit and talk by Professor Ipek Celik on the refugee crisis, which will serve as our culminating event for 2015. Professor Celik’s recent book, In Permanent Crisis: Ethnicity in European Cinema and Media (University of Michigan Press) engages many of the questions that have occupied Alamanya during the last decade. In it, she explores the concept of crisis and its history; individual chapters on contemporary British, German and French films examine the ethnicization of migrants in times of crisis via aesthetic representations. Celik will build on the theoretical framework she develops in this book in order to reflect on the current situation. Professor Celik is a professor at Koc University in Istanbul.
Report abuse