In 2014, the Joseph
Horner Library at the German Society of Pennsylvania is hosting a lecture series from distinguished scholars in German-American history. Villanova graduate
students interested in topics related to German history and culture are welcome
to attend. Here is the list of all the history-related events happening at the
GSP this year:
January 23, 2014: Dr. Friederike
Baer (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Penn State University
Abington), German-Americans, Nativism, and Murder: The Trials of
Paul Schoeppe, 1869-1872
February 19, 2014: Dr. Randall
Donaldson (Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literature,
Loyola University Maryland): The German Societies of
Pennsylvania and Maryland: Two Perspectives on German-Language Immigrants to
North America
March 20, 2014: Dr. Jürgen Overhoff (Professor,
Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft und Historische Bildungsforschung,
Universität Münster): William Penn’s Travels in Germany, 1677
May 22, 2014: Dr. Lynne Tatlock (Professor,
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Washington University at St.
Louis): German Romance in America: The Translations of Annis Lee
Wister and the Americans who read them (1868-1907)
June 14, 2014: Dr. Birte Pfleger (Associate Professor,
Department of History, California State University Los Angeles): The
Other Germans: German-Speaking Veterans of the Revolutionary War, 1775-1840
Lisa
Minardi (Ph.D. student, History of American Civilization, University of
Delaware and President, The Speaker’s House): From Pastor to
Patriot: Frederick Muhlenberg, Lutheran Minister and First Speaker of the U.S.
House
Dr.
Bethany Wiggin (Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and
Literatures, University of Pennsylvania): Printer-Publisher Christoph Sauer (the Older),
Separatism, and the Founding of the German Society of Pennsylvania
December 10, 2014: Dr. Frank
Trommler (Professor Emeritus, Department of Germanic Languages and
Literatures, University of Pennsylvania): Germany’s Cultural
Diplomacy in the 20th Century: Not a Topic for Diplomats
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