On Friday, September 20 and Saturday, September 21, the conference Germany From the Outside will take place at the Levis Faculty Center on the University of Illinois campus. "Germany" has never been one discrete entity, and "German culture" and "German language" have never been the property of one ethnic or national group. The conference speakers will present work on perspectives on Germany that emanate, in one way or another, from outside the borders of Germany itself.
Germany From the Outside is also the annual conference of the American Friends of the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (AFM). The AFM Board will hold its annual closed meeting at the conclusion of the conference.
The conference is made possible by the support of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Max Kade Foundation, the School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, among others.
Complete information, including a program and speaker biographies, is at germanyfromtheoutside.weebly.com. The organizer is Laurie Johnson (lruthjoh@illinois.edu).
