Find out about German Studies, Scandinavian Studies, advising in language placement, language courses in German and Swedish, tutorials in Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, and Norwegian, as well as study and work abroad opportunities.
Find out about German Studies, Scandinavian Studies, advising in language placement, language courses in German and Swedish, tutorials in Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, and Norwegian, as well as study and work abroad opportunities.
The Harvard - California State University Long Beach collaboration continues with a summer edition of Tafelrunde, the remote Geman language practice hours. All are welcome!
The Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Germanic Forum (GGF) is partnering with the German Studies Student Association (GSSA) at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), and the Johns Hopkins Philological Society (TPS) to host a workshop on the topic of Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) and unity. A call for papers will soon be sent out internationally, inviting M.A. students and Ph.D. students to present their work alongside established expert panelists and commentators over the course of two half-days on Thursday and Friday, May 13–14, 2021 from 8:00am–12:00pm PST/11:00am...
This panel discussion features graduate students from Cornell University, Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, University of California at Berkeley, and University of Chicago.
The distinction between poetry and information, perhaps most visibly articulated in Wittgenstein’s famous statement that although a poem “is composed in the language of information, [it] is not used in the language-game of giving information,” has haunted 20th century poetics and its readers. Our contemporary information concept owes its force to the legacy of information’s post-WW2 history as a term describing a factual “bit” of a larger process or a “naturalized” entity. In the wake of postwar engineering culture, information becomes that which is organized, stored, and...
Die berühmte Autorin Sibylle Berg liest aus ihrem neusten Roman GRM – Brainfuck, einer dunkel-grotesken Satire auf sämtliche sozialen Ungerechtigkeiten unserer zunehmend globalisierten, digitalisierten und polarisierten Welt. Zudem gibt der preisgekrönte Übersetzer Tim Mohr einen exklusiven Einblick in seine Arbeit an der englischen Übersetzung von GRM.
Acclaimed author Sibylle Berg reads from her latest book GRM – Brainfuck, a darkly satirical novel that takes an unflinching look at the social injustices plaguing our increasingly globalized, digitalized, and polarized...