Spring 2014 Graduate Student Symposium

The German Department’s Spring 2014 Symposium featuring the work of three graduate students will take place from 2–5:30pm on the afternoon of Friday, March 7th in the Rocky-Mathey Theater, Rockefeller College. This semester’s symposium will feature presentations by Paul Babinski (“Presentations of Gebärdensprache in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre”), Andrew Dechet (“The Work that Work Does: Arbeit in Rilke’s 1903 Rodin Monograph”) and Anat Benzvi (“Benjamin’s One Hundred Favorite Rascals: The Flâneur, the Hero, and Baudelaire”). There will be a brief response given by a faculty member to each paper, followed by animated discussion.

The biannual event, which is free and Open to the public, will be followed by a reception in East Pyne.