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. Visit the Humanities Calendar for information about upcoming lectures.
Lecture Archive
| March 2008 |
Slavoj Zizek Sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic; and senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia "The Spectrality of the Real: A Lacanian Approach" |
| April 2008 |
Albrecht Koschorke Professor of modern German literary studies at the University of Konstanz "The Problem of Female Politics in 17th Century Drama" |
| March 2006 |
Winfried Menninghaus Professor, Freie Universität Berlin "Hölderlin's Sapphic Mode: Revising the Myth of the Male Pindaric Seer" |
| February 2006 |
Winfried Menninghaus Professor, Freie Universität Berlin "The Function(s) of Art: Perspectives on Transcendental and Evolutionary Aesthetics" |