Lecture

The German Studies: New Perspectives Seminar presents Andreas Kilcher, Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Franz Kafka's texts are among the...

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...

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...

Guest speaker Ulrike Wagner, of Bard College Berlin, explores the question "What if the vocation of the humanities were not to affirm identity but to unlearn it?" For further information contact annedymek@fas.harvard.edu.

Join us in the Nebel Room for a presentation by Florian Fuchs about his book Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature. He will be joined in conversation by William Stewart of the Department of Germanic Languages and...

In 1931, Max Horkheimer proposed a model of interdisciplinary research that remains a benchmark for understanding how cultures function and might function better. He imagined an institute “in which philosophers, sociologists, economists, historians, and...

Why did Wernher von Braun and Norbert Wiener write novels and stories? Based on the fiction of the so-called "father of the American lunar program," and of the founder of cybernetics, this lecture explores the peculiar phenomenon wherein some scientists--...

A light lunch will be served. Pre-register here to join via Zoom. In her blog-novel Ich in Gelb (“Me in Yellow,” 2015), Olga Flor depicts an odd couple that becomes a hybrid creature, at once worm and woman. How, the novel prompts the reader to ask, might...

German and Comparative Literary Studies, especially in the 20th and 21st centuries, have offered a very rich body of scholarship on exile, exilic authors, and exile literatures. The focus on the exilic subject as an extraordinary subject, an author, or...

Maria Lazar (1895-1948) was one of Vienna's most productive and talented novelists, poets, and dramatists in the 1920s and 1930s. Together with her husband, Friedrich Strindberg, she worked and corresponded with Elias and Veza Canetti, Karin Michaelis...