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German 154. The Frankfurt School on Film and Mass Culture

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Day/Time T 12:45PM - 2:45PM Instructor TBA This seminar considers the Frankfurt School's deliberations on film, radio, television, and mass culture. We will devote the majority of the course to three seminal figures: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin...

Jessica Ruffin: "'What can I hope?': Race, Abyssal Aesthetics, and the Failure of Beauty"

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Jessica Ruffin is Assistant Professor of Film and Media in the Literature Section at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her talk will address the function of the beautiful in accounts of aesthetic and ethical intersubjectivity. Immanuel Kant’s...

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The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures offers both an undergraduate (A.B.) and graduate (Ph.D.) degree. Undergraduates have the option to pursue a concentration in German Studies or a joint concentration in German and another field. Graduate...

German 150. Under Surveillance: Media, Security, and the Loss of Privacy

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Day/Time M 12:45PM - 2:45PM Instructor TBA With a camera positioned at the entrance to the director’s factory, Louis Lumière’s famous early film of 1895, La Sortie de l’usine Lumière à Lyon, captured workers as they left for the day. Today, surveillance...

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...

Moira Weigel

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I write and teach about the history, theory, and social life of media and communication technologies, from the early nineteenth century to the present. I originally trained in comparative literature and film studies, working in German, French, Spanish...

FY Seminar 53H. Burnout: Quiet Quitting, Slacking Off, and Our Addiction to Achievement

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Instructor Stewart Date/Time 9:45am - 11:45am Who hasn’t felt burnout? Who hasn’t felt it more acutely in the years since the pandemic? And who hasn’t struggled to define just what exactly this feeling is or where it comes from? This first-year seminar...

Why Choose Germanic Languages & Literatures?

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The department offers students a rich and diverse program of literary and cultural studies and several pathways through either German Studies or Scandinavian Studies, including  a secondary field, a joint concentration and a double concentration with...

Graduate Student Views on German Studies: Where We Are and Where We’re Going

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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 event is part of the German Studies: New Perspectives...

Scandinavian 55. One Hundred Years of Scandinavian Cinema

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Day/Time M 12:00–2:45pm, W 12:00–1:15pm Instructor Broomé This course explores Scandinavian cinema from the pioneers of the silent era to the globally successful hit films of the present day. Students will trace the development of Scandinavian cinema...