Dates and titles have been released for the 2021/22 BASF lecture series.
Chair: Rüdiger Görner (QMUL/CAGCR)
Tuesdays 6:30 pm.
19th October 2021
Panel Discussion with Peter Barnes (British-German Association), Ruth Krahe (DAAD), Katharina von Ruckteschell-Katte (Goethe Institut), Paul Smith (British Council/Germany): Anglo-German Cultural Relations: Quo vadis? Problems and Possibilities
23rd November 2021
John Kampfner (Berlin/London) t.b.c) The New German Government - A British Perspective on its international challenges
7th December 2021
Heike Zech (Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg): Museum and Exhibition Culture. A Comparison
18th January 2022
John Guthrie (Cambridge): Johann Jacob Bodmer’s translation of Milton’s “Paradise Lost”
15th February 2022
William Donahue (Notre Dame): Dresden – a Matter of Conscience
22nd March 2022
Charmian Brinson (Imperial): German-speaking Refugees in British Propaganda during the Second World War
17th May 2022 (EXCEPTIONALLY at 8 pm)
Miranda Eva Stanyon (Melbourne): Divided by a common tongue? Hoffmann and De Quincey on a European smash-hit aria