Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Toronto
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Holiday Party ~ December 6, 2018
Author Archives: Department of German
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iPRAKTIKUM – Internship Featured in U of T News
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Global Career Booster Germany
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Guest Lecture: “Werther’s Pulse” by Oliver Simons
September 14, 2019, 3:00pm to 5:00pm, Odette Hall Rm. 323 Oliver Simons studied German literature, cultural studies, and philosophy at Humboldt-University in Berlin, where he received his Dr. phil. in 2005. His teaching and research interests focus on literature and science, post-colonial studies, the “end” around 1800, and literary theories. Professor Oliver Simons is professor of German at Columbia University in New York City. He is the author of Raumgeschichten. Topographien der Moderne in Philosophie, Wissenschaft und Literatur and Literaturtheorien zur Einführung, and co-editor of Kolonialismus als Kultur: Literatur, Medien, Wissenschaft in der deutschen Gründerzeit des Fremden, Kafkas Institutionen (Transcript 2007), Bachmanns Medien and The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt. In his current book project, tentatively titled The Ends of the Eighteenth Century, he examines how textual endings around 1800 correspond with theories of causality and conclusion. ** For any accommodation needs, please email german@chass.utoronto.ca, and we will do our best to assist you. Read More »
Interdisciplinary Simmel: A Conference
Interdisciplinary Simmel: A Conference Read More »
Guest Lecture: Alternative Aesthetics and Collective Authorship: Medieval German Religious Songs
Almut Suerbaum (Oxford) presents: Alternative Aesthetics and Collective Authorship: Medieval German Religious Songs Read More »
Kometz-alef: oh! Back to School at the Yiddish Kheyder – an exhibition by Miriam Borden
A large number of Yiddish speaking, Eastern European Jews immigrated to Canada between the years the late 1800s and early 1900s in response to an aggressive immigration policy instituted by the Canadian government as well as a series of pogroms in Eastern Europe... Read More »
Congratulations to Professor John Noyes, on his special appointment in South Africa
John Noyes has been appointed Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Read More »
Professor Emeritus Horst Wittmann: May 17, 1935 – July 13, 2018
Professor Wittmann was born in Germany and educated at the University of Göttingen in German and American literature and in the history of art. Read More »