Philip and Ida Romberg Lecture and Workshop

This endowment was established with a gift from Hildegarde M. Romberg, PhB 1921, AM '35, PhD '50, in honor and memory of her parents Philip and Ida Romberg. The lecture series enables Germanic Studies to invite renowned scholars and thinkers from other institutions, in the United States, abroad, and especially in Germany. One of the founding aims was to encourage the exchange of ideas and to foster greater mutual understanding between the United States and Germany.

Upcoming Lectures

7 March 2008 "The Spectrality of the Real: A Lacanian Approach," Slavoj Zizek, sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic; and senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

April 10, 2008 "The Problem of Female Politics in 17th Century Drama," Albrecht Koschorke, professor of modern German literary studies at the University of Konstanz

Lecture Archive

1 March 2006 "Hölderlin's Sapphic Mode: Revising the Myth of the Male Pindaric Seer," Winfried Menninghaus, Professor, Freie Universität Berlin

28 February 2006 "The Function(s) of Art: Perspectives on Transcendental and Evolutionary Aesthetics," Winfried Menninghaus, Professor, Freie Universität Berlin