German Culture Series, Schedule of Events
	Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College Hours: Tuesday - Saturday: 10 A.M. -5 P.M. Sunday: 1-5 P.M. Closed Mondays. Telephone: 440-775-8665. Art Museum Programs Nourish Academic and Artistic Interests in German Culture   Why Expressionists Liked Woodcuts and Bold, Rapid Brush Strokes   How Some Faculty Will Use Utopia and Alienation: German Art and Expressionism, 1900-1933   Oberlin's New German Cinema Series		Friday, September 17, 1999 through December 19, 1999 Utopia and Alienation: German Art and Expressionism, 1900-1933 Stern Gallery, Allen Memorial Art Museum Friday, September 24, 1999 Harold Jantz Memorial Lecture: Reinhold Heller, professor of art history and Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago: "Utopian Project of German Expressionism" 4 P.M. Fisher Hall, Allen Memorial Art Museum Reception and grand opening for Utopia and Alienation: German Art and Expressionism, 1900-1933. Cabaret music performed by vocalist Simone Perrin and pianist Greg Ristow. 5-7 P.M. Sculpture Court, Allen Memorial Art Museum Saturday, September 25, 1999 Max Kade Lecture: Sigrid Bauschinger, Wolfgang Paulsen professor of German Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst: "That Dead Certain Instinct for Quality: The Jewish Contribution to Modern Literature and Art in Berlin between 1900 and 1920." 4:00 P.M. Max Kade House Thursday, September 30, 1999 Nancy Bialler, Sotheby's, "Print Connoisseurship" 4:30 P.M. Fisher Hall Tuesday, October 12, 1999 Marjorie Weiseman, curator of western art before 1850, will give a gallery talk for Utopia and Alienation: German Art and Expressionism, 1900-1933 2:30 P.M. Stern Gallery, Allen Memorial Art Museum Thursday, October 28, 1999 Heidi Thomann Tewarson, professor of German, will give a talk: "Rethinking Early Twentieth-Century Art and Literature: Gendered Conceptions of Creativity and the Natural in Alfred Döblin, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Käthe Kollwitz, and Oskar Kokoschka" 4:30 P.M. Fisher Hall Thursday, November 4, 1999 Timothy Corrigan, professor of English at Temple University, will give a lecture on New German Cinema--"The Three Faces of Lola: German Cinema before and after Fassbinder"--to introduce the New German Film Festival. 4:30 P.M. Mudd 050 Sunday, November 7 through Wednesday, November 10, 1999 New German Film Festival will show eight films presented by the Allen Memorial Art Museum in conjunction with the German department, the Oberlin Film Society, and the Independent Film Society. Film titles and times are listed on the AMAM web site. Times vary, Kettering Auditorium Thursday, December 9, 1999 Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor of History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, will present "Apocalypse Then: German Reflections on the Half Millennium in 1500." 4:30 P.M. Fisher Hall.
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