GSAS Germanic Forum/Germanic Circle

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 GSAS Germanic Forum presents: A lecture by Roman Seebeck, of the University of M ünster.

Since the early 2000s, researchers in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities have been discussing an ongoing paradigm shift in the consideration of animals. This paradigm shift directly affects the way laboratory animals are perceived in...

Co-sponsored by the GSAS Germanic Forum, this Schreibwerkstatt will feature Christian Struck, who will be presenting a dissertation chapter on “Weight and Opacity (Uwe Johnson)."

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...

The talk threads the needle between recent attempts to find a way round the hermeneutics of suspicion defining the mode of reading called “critique” and acknowledgment of the fact that critique will always be with us if only because both acts of reading...

In cases as various as Goethe, Hegel, Nietzsche, and beyond, recent scholarship on modern German thought has shown that there is a great deal to learn in understanding how a wide range of figures position themselves with respect to Spinoza—a great deal to...

Thomas Pfau is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English at Duke University and holds secondary appointments in Germanic Languages & Literature and the Divinity School. He is the author of some fifty essays and of Wordsworth’s Profession (Stanford 1997)...