Events

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Asylum seekers protest in Berlin
Lecture

Mercurial Mediterraneans: Nation, Narration, and Migration from Däubler to Erpenbeck

Peter Makhlouf
Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University
January 22, 2025
Wednesday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
205 East Pyne
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Two artful book cover jackets
Lecture

Rethinking Heimat and Trauma: Meral Kureyshi’s Elefanten im Garten and Mehrnousch Zaeri-Esfahani’s 33 Bogen und ein Teehaus

Varol Kahveci
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures - Columbia University, NY
January 24, 2025
Friday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
205 East Pyne
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Artwork print of houses in cubism style
Spring 2025 Lecture Series

Gender and the Genres of Postwar Memory Culture: Novels of Domestic Decay from Haus ohne Hüter to Altes Land

Katra Byram
Germanic Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University
February 10, 2025
Monday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
205 East Pyne
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Reading Group

There is a crack in everything. Introduction to the Frankfurt School, Critical Theory and Negative Dialectics.

February 13 – April 10, 2025
TBA
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Old tone photo image Susman
Graduate Student Conference

Mysticism & Modernism: The World of Margarete Susman

Professor Barbara Hahn
Max Kade Foundation Chair in German Studies Emerita at Vanderbilt University, Honorary Professor at the Free University of Berlin
February 21–22, 2025
Friday – Saturday
TBA
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Artwork of 1920's style woman behind wheel of automobile
Spring 2025 Lecture Series

The German “Auto-“. Fiction, Theory, and the Essay in the First-Person Singular

Hanna Engelmeier
Universität der Künste Berlin & KWI Essen
March 31, 2025
Monday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
205 East Pyne
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Illustrative painting of Lady Danvers pursued by her footmen
Spring 2025 Lecture Series

From Empathy to Resentment: A Short History of Identification

Albrecht Koschorke
Neuere Deutsche Literatur und Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Konstanz
April 14, 2025
Monday
4:30 – 6:00 pm
205 East Pyne
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East Pyne Hall arch
Graduate Student Workshop

Albrecht Koschorke, Universität Konstanz

April 15, 2025
Tuesday
12:00 – 1:30 pm
TBA