Past Events

Jonas Rosenbrück, "Common Scents: On Brecht's Revolution of the Senses"

April 11, 2024

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4:00PM - 6:00PM EDT

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Plimpton Room, Barker 133

Jonas Rosenbrück, Assistant Professor of German at Amherst College, will present "Common Scents: On Brecht's Revolution of the Senses." Professor Rosenbrück is currently completing his first book, titled Common Scents: Poetry, Modernity, and a Revolution...

2024 Goethe Workshop at Harvard: "Goethe's Letters: Epistolary Poetics & Practice"

Apr. 5 - Apr 6, 2024

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12:00AM - 12:00AM EDT

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Plimpton Room, Barker 133

A graduate student workshop on epistolary poetics and practice, with scholars Frauke Berndt, Daniel Carranza, Joel Lande, Dorothea von M ücke, and David Wellbery. Pre-registration required: please email dcarranza@fas.harvard.edu. Workshop schedule here.

Relations: An Interdepartmental Graduate Student Conference by the German Departments of Brown, Harvard, NYU, and Yale

Mar. 29 - Mar 30, 2024

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12:00AM - 12:00AM EDT

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Barker Center 133 (Plimpton Room)

An Interdepartmental Graduate Student Conference by the German Departments of Brown, Harvard, NYU, and Yale. Graduate students and faculty from all four universities are warmly invited to attend. Organized by Therese Shire and Nicole Sütterlin S ponsored...

Barbara Vinken, "Fashion Queers: From Chanel to Maison Margiela"

Mar 28, 2024

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4:00PM EDT

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Thompson Room, Barker Center

The Eighth Annual Bernard Blume Lecturer will be Barbara Vinken, speaking on "Fashion Queers: From Chanel to Maison Margiela." For over a century, Western fashion has been practicing a juxtaposition of gender stereotypes and sexual desires: cross-dressing...

"Publication Landscapes in the Field" Workshop

March 21, 2024

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3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT

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Nebel Room

Speakers Nicole Sütterlin & Anne Dymek

Alexander Sorenson, "For Love of the World: Rilke's Ecology of Praise and Transience"

February 29, 2024

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4:00PM - 6:00PM EST

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Plimpton Room, Barker 133

The German Studies Seminar presents Alexander Sorenson, speaking on "For Love of the World: Rilke's Ecology of Praise and Transience." Professor Sorenson (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2019) teaches German and Comparative Literature at Binghamton...

Alice Lacoue-Labarthe, "Voices from the Margins: De- and Re-territorializations of the Canon in the Context of the 'Refugee Crisis'"

Feb 26, 2024

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6:00PM EST

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Nebel Room (Barker Center 359)

Alice Lacoue-Labarthe, a former visiting student in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, is affiliated with the Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens, France) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, as part of a Belgian-French joint PhD...

"The Job Market" Workshop

February 15, 2024

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3:00PM - 5:00PM EST

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Nebel Room

Speakers Peter Burgard & Daniel Carranza

Sophie Schweiger, "Conserving Conversation: Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Indiscrete Machine"

February 1, 2024

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4:00PM - 6:00PM EST

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Plimpton Room, Barker 133

The German Studies Seminar presents Professor Sophie Johanna Schweiger, Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center. Sophie Schweiger completed her Ph.D. at Columbia University...

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED German Studies Seminar: "Visceral Poetry: Antonin Artaud, Unica Zürn, and the (Un)Sensing of the Letter"

November 30, 2023

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4:00PM - 6:00PM EST

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Nebel Room (Barker Center 359)

The German Studies Seminar presents Nadine Schwakopf, sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Dr. Schwakopf studied law at the Universität Passau, Germany, and the University of Western Australia in Perth. After graduation, she worked at the European...

Visiting Scholar talk: "Narrative des sozialen Aufstiegs. Autosoziobiografisches Schreiben in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren" by Fabienne Steeger

November 27, 2023

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4:00PM - 6:00PM EST

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Nebel Room (Barker Center 359)

Fabienne Steeger is a Fulbright Visiting Student in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures during the 2023-24 academic year. She received her B.A. and M.Ed. in German Studies, Social Sciences and Educational Sciences, and her M.A. in...

"Zoom Interviews & Campus Visits" Workshop

November 16, 2023

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3:00PM - 5:00PM EST

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Nebel Room

Speakers: Alison Frank Johnson & Lisa Parkes