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Heidi Denzel (Dartmouth): "The Visual Rhetoric of a 'Crisis': Of Refugees, Border Patrols, Bystander Effects and Affects"

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The event is part of the German Studies: New Perspectives seminar series at the Mahindra Humanities Center. Pre-registration is required. Register to attend this lecture by Heidi Denzel.

"The Use and Value of Language Skills in the Workplace"

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The Language Center and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures present Dr. Tobias Schroedler, Junior Professor of Multilingualism and Social Inclusion at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Dr. Schroedler holds an M.Phil. (2011) and...

Annual Bernhard Blume Lecture: Juliane Vogel (Universität Konstanz), "Entrance as Crisis in Tragic Drama"

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Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies

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The Program for the Study of Germany and Europe at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies is concerned with European and German politics, economics, society, and recent history. The Center has a library and offers many lectures and workshops on...

Peter J. Burgard: "Zur Wunde Christi: Caravaggios doppelsinniger Naturalismus"

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Part of the Mahindra Humanities Center's German Studies: New Perspectives series. Lecture is in German; Q&A in English or German. In the context of the German Studies Seminar, the purpose of this lecture is to show how the practice of close reading...

Eric Santner: "Ecstatic Intimacies, Intimate Ecstasies: Some Reflections on the Topologies of Modernity"

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The Department presents the Ninth Annual Blume Lecture, given by Eric Santner, the Philip and Ida Romberg Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago. How is it that, as a recent author put it...

Ekaterina Pirozhenko

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Ekaterina Pirozhenko completed her undergraduate degree, Diploma Summa Cum Laude in German philology at the Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia; M.A. in German Studies at the University of Northern Iowa, and a Ph.D. in Germanic Studies at the...

Dagmar Herzog (CUNY), Guest Lecture: "Moral Reasoning in the Wake of Mass Murder: Disability and Reproductive Rights in 1980s-1990s Germany"

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Dagmar Herzog is distinguished professor of history and the Daniel Rose Faculty scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her areas of interest are Modern Europe, History of Sexuality, History of Religion, and Holocaust Studies.

Albrecht Koschorke (Konstanz): "Dichter und Beamte in Preußen um 1800”

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Albrecht Koschorke is Professor of Modern German Literature and Comparative Literature at the University of Constance. His groundbreaking study on 18th-century writing, communication and the body changed the scope of German Studies, playing a decisive...

“The Narratology of Sequence (Folge): Closure & Continuation in Goethe's Lehrjahre”  

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Dr. Sebastian Meixner will be a guest lecturer in German 229, a seminar on Goethe's novels, on November 15, during the regular classroom session. He will speak on “The Narratology of Sequence (Folge): Closure & Continuation in Goethe's Lehrjahre.” All are...

Olivia Landry (Lehigh University) on "Anger Now: Philosophy, Social Justice, and Theatre"

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Drawing on her forthcoming monograph, Theatre of Anger: Radical Transnational Performance in Berlin, Olivia Landry’s lecture offers an account of anger as a form of knowing, of energizing, of empowering, and of caring. It makes its way through a history...

Russell Berman (Stanford) - Annual Bernhard Blume Lecture in Germanic Languages and Literatures - "Representing the Trial: Judith Butler Reads Hannah Arendt Reading Adolf Eichmann"

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