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Recovered Voices: The Music of Suppressed Composers of the 20th Century
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The Colburn School and James Conlon established the Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices to spotlight music by composers whose careers and lives were disrupted—or worse—during the years of the Nazi regime in Europe. Maestro Conlon, the Artistic...
Antje Wessels (Universiteit Leiden) on "Zensur und Verankerung: Antikerezeption in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik"
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Antje Wessels is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Universiteit Leiden in the Netherlands. Her fields of interest are Roman Drama, Hellenistic and Imperial Literature, and History of Scholarship/Reception of Antiquity (19th/20th Century).
Judith Ryan
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Professor Ryan received her B.A. from Sydney University, Australia, and her Dr. phil. from the University of Münster, Germany. Before coming to Harvard, she taught for many years at Smith College. In addition to receiving grants from the Alexander von...
Scandinavian 102. Scandinavian Folklore: Trolls, Trolldom and the Uses of Tradition
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Day/Time R 12:00–2:45pm Instructor Mitchell Examines Nordic folklore and folklife, with an emphasis on narratives, supernatural beliefs, and material culture from the 15th to the early 20th centuries, interpreted against additional sources of information...
Welcome, Professor Stirner!
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We are delighted to announce that Simone Stirner, Ph.D. Berkeley, has just joined the German Department, coming from Vanderbilt University via a Research Fellowship in Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. She is a scholar and teacher of...
German 181. Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Modernity: History, Language, Technology, Catastrophe
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Instructor Stewart Date/Time W 3:00 - 5:00 pm Although he is arguably one of the most influential Western thinkers of the 20th century, what does Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) have to teach the 21st century? A great deal, it turns out. For the questions...
Visiting Scholar talk: "Narrative des sozialen Aufstiegs. Autosoziobiografisches Schreiben in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren" by Fabienne Steeger
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Fabienne Steeger is a Fulbright Visiting Student in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures during the 2023-24 academic year. She received her B.A. and M.Ed. in German Studies, Social Sciences and Educational Sciences, and her M.A. in...
Barbara Vinken, "Fashion Queers: From Chanel to Maison Margiela"
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The Eighth Annual Bernard Blume Lecturer will be Barbara Vinken, speaking on "Fashion Queers: From Chanel to Maison Margiela." For over a century, Western fashion has been practicing a juxtaposition of gender stereotypes and sexual desires: cross-dressing...
Venkat Mani (Wisconsin) - "Theorizing Unsettlement: World Literary Readings in the Age of Refugees"
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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...
Peter J. Burgard
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Professor Burgard, who joined the Harvard Faculty 35 years ago, studied at The Johns Hopkins University (B.A.) and at the Universities of Cologne, Bonn, and Virginia (M.A., Ph.D.). He writes on poetry, drama, narrative, and the essay, on painting...