Past Events

Thomas Mann on Patriotism as the Love and Critique of Country

April 28, 2026

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5:00PM - 6:15PM EDT

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Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall

From 1940 to 1945, the German author and Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann authored a series of antifascist radio addresses that were broadcast into Germany by the BBC while he lived in exile in California. In his early speeches of Deutsche Hörer! (German...

Thomas Mann on Patriotism as the Love and Critique of Country

April 28, 2026

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5:00PM - 6:15PM EDT

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Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall

Die Dreigroschenoper

April 24, 2026

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7:00PM EDT

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Cabot House Theater

Students in German 118 (German Drama and Theater) are pleased to present the course final project, two performances of Die Dreigroschenoper, by Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill. The production is directed by Dr. Lisa Parkes; students participate on stage and...

“The Birth of Einfühlung from the Spirit of Materialism: Necromantic Empathy in Nineteenth-Century German Aesthetics,” with Joseph Metz

April 23, 2026

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4:00PM - 6:00PM EDT

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Plimpton Room, Barker Center room 133

The German Studies: New Perspectives seminar presents Joseph Metz, Associate Professor of German, University of Utah

Gerhard Richter: "On Learning to Love the Darkness from Which I Derive: Dwelling in the Neighborhood of Poetry and Philosophy," 2026 Blume Lecture

April 9, 2026

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4:00PM - 6:00PM EDT

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Forum Room, Lamont Library

Gerhard Richter, the L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Brown University, will deliver the 10th annual Berhard Blume Lecture, titled "On Learning to Love the Darkness from Which I Derive: Dwelling in the...

2026 Blume Lecture by Gerhard Richter: "On Learning to Love the Darkness from Which I Derive: Dwelling in the Neighborhood of Poetry and Philosophy"

April 9, 2026

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4:00PM - 6:00PM EDT

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Thompson Room, Barker Center

Gerhard Richter, the L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Brown University, will deliver the 10th annual Berhard Blume Lecture, titled "On Learning to Love the Darkness from Which I Derive: Dwelling in the...

Professional Development Workshop on Academic and Professional Networking

April 2, 2026

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5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT

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Nebel Room, Barker 359

A graduate student workshop with Peter Burgard, John Hamilton & Simone Stirner

Professional Development Workshop with Research Librarian Reed Lowrie

March 12, 2026

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4:00PM - 5:30PM EDT

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Widener Library; room TBA

A graduate student workshop with Daniel Carranza & Reed Lowrie (Head of Research Services, Harvard Libraries)

Professional Development Workshop: Alternative and/or Para-Academic Careers

February 26, 2026

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5:00PM - 6:30PM EST

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Nebel Room, Barker 359

A graduate student workshop with William Stewart & Lynette Roth (Harvard Art Museums)

Professional Development Workshop: Varieties of Academic Jobs in German Departments

February 12, 2026

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4:00PM - 5:30PM EST

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TBA

A graduate student workshop with Alison Frank Johnson and Lisa Parkes

"Far-reaching Similarities: Freud, Jensen, Gradiva" with Sina Dell'Anno

December 4, 2025

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4:00PM - 6:00PM EST

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Plimpton Room, Barker Center room 133

The German Studies: New Perspectives seminar presents Sina Dell'Anno, University of Basel/Visiting Professor, Yale University A reconsideration of Freud's Delusion and Dreams in W. Jensen’s “Gradiva” with particular attention to the role of paraphrase in...

"Unexpected Alliances Behind the Iron Curtain: Black History and International Solidarity in East Germany,” with Katharina Warda

November 12, 2025

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5:15PM - 6:30PM EST

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Nebel Room (Barker 359)

Katharina Warda, sociologist and literary scholar, will speak on "Unexpected Alliances Behind the Iron Curtain: Black History and International Solidarity in East Germany,” co-sponsored between the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the...