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The Annual Maximilian Aue Memorial Lecture
The annual Maximilian Aue Memorial Lecture was inaugurated in 2014 to commemorate Dr. Maximilian Aue’s many years of service to German studies at Emory University. Dr. Aue served on the German Studies faculty from 1968 to 2012 and was also a long-time affiliated faculty member with the Comparative Literature Department. His many contributions to the study of German at Emory included his pioneering establishment of the summer study abroad program in his hometown Vienna, Austria, now in its 42nd consecutive year of operation, his infectious love for literary study, and his lifelong devotion to his students.
2024
Mascha Dabić, Georgetown University, Max Kade Writer-in-Residence
"The Balkans in Vienna"
2023
Peter Höyng, Emory University
Discussion of Höyng's co-edited and co-translated Marilyn: A Novel of Passing
2022
Dr. Gundolf Graml, Professor of German and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean for Curriculum and Strategic Initiatives, Agnes Scott College
"'Where is this much-acclaimed Austria?' Tracing Austria's National (Self)Image Through the Lens of Tourism"
2021
Anna Horakova, Lafayette College, Visiting Assistant Professor
“Back to the Future: the East German Avant-garde from 1949-1989”
2020
Anna Horakova, Emory University, Visiting Assistant Professor
“Back to the Future: the East German Avant-garde from 1949-1989” - canceled due to COVID-19
2019
Peter Höyng, Emory University
"Acts of Translation: Hugo Bettauer’s Das blaue Mal"
2018
James Melton, Emory University
"Mozart, Da Ponte, and the Composition of the Social in Enlightenment Vienna"
2017
Carrie Smith-Prei, University of Alberta
"Creative Modes of Resistance in German Feminist Protest Cultures"
2016
Simon Richter, University of Pennsylvania
"Reading with Hiccups: Goethe's Faust, Climate Change, and YOU."
2015
David Suchoff, Colby College
"The Hidden Rabe: Kafka's Openings and Beckett's Cage"
2014
Katherine Arens, The University of Texas at Austin
"Kasperl Restages Austria's History: Punch and Judy Critique Europe, from Schnitzler to the Vienna Group"