Thursdays at 5 pm, Michaelmas Term 2002 2002
Lecture Block Room 1, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA
During the course of the Michaelmas Term 2002 the Department of German will present a series of lectures on on key developments through 1200 years of German language history. All lectures will be open to the public as well as to any member of the University.
| 10 Oct. | DR J WEST (Newcastle Upon Tyne) Landmark Text: The Bible in German |
| 17 Oct. | PROF H-J SOLMS (Halle an der Saale) Landmark Sound Change: Monophthonge und Diphthonge im Mittelhochdeutschen (N.B. This lecture will be held in German) |
| 24 Oct. | PROF R McKITTERICK (Cambridge) Landmark Figure: Charlemagne, Language and Literacy |
| 31 Oct. | PROF WJ JONES (Royal Holloway) Landmark Metatexts: Dictionaries and their Role in the Formation of German (1691-1873) |
| 7 Nov. | DR N LANGER (Bristol) Landmark Process: Low German. Death of a (Written) Dialect |
| 14 Nov. | PROF M DURRELL (Manchester) Landmark Identity: Deutsch: Teutons, Germans or Dutch? The Problems of Defining a Nation |
| 21 Nov. | DR J WHALEY (Cambridge) Landmark Words: Reich, Volk und Nation |
| 28 Nov. | DR G HORAN (University College London) Landmark Gender: Women's Discourse under National Socialism |