March 29, 2014. Munk School of Global Affairs, Room 208N. Organized by Ulrike Kugler (Goethe-Institut Toronto), Christine Lehleiter (University Toronto) and Barbara Schmenk (University Waterloo). The event is co-sponsored by CERES. View the Read More »
March 23, 2014. 10:00 – 17:00 Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George Street, Room 1040. Workshop presented by the Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts on Translation and the Multiplicity of Languages. Organized by Willi Goetschel.Translation is the practice of negotiating difference and alterity. But what do we do exactly when we translate? As Eva Hoffmann puts it in her novel Lost in Translation, we also translate ourselves, and this experience of our own difference is what constitutes our identity. The basic moments that define translation as paradoxical if not impossible – substitution and equivalence as the constitutive transactions that ‘carry over’ only by way of conversion, change, and transformation – produce a logic that makes translation an act that resists closure. Moses Mendelssohn introduced the striking notion of Scripture as ‘living script’ arguing that the practice of commandments represents an alternative framework for understanding law, text, and translation. Mendelssohn’s approach highlights the performative act as central to interpretation. This has productive consequences for the theorizing translation. For Mendelssohn, the notion of the ‘living script’ makes it possible to comprehend translation in terms of action rather than just a hermeneutic exercise or transfer of information. With this move, Mendelssohn offers ... Read More »
March 14, 2014, 14:00 Thomas Lentes (U Münster) Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100. Read More »
6 February, 2014, 4 PM. Professor Dr. Jochen Hörisch teaches German Literature and Media Studies at the Universität Mannheim. Read More »
Twenty-Five Years after the “New Philology” A Conference on Editorial Problems November 8-9, 2013 Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George Street, Room 100. Stephen Nichols Alexandra Bolintineanu Joel Fredell Emma Gorst Jessica Henderson William Robins Kathryn Starkey Markus Stock Michael Stolz Andrew Taylor If you have an accommodation need, please contact german@chass.utoronto.ca by 2 November 2013. We gratefully acknowledge support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Centre for Medieval Studies, the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, and the Committee of the Conference on Editorial Problems. Read More »
"(Re)Mediations of Race and Ethnicity in German Visual Cultures" April 19 - 20, 2013 Munk School of Global Affairs, 208N Read More »
Friday, October 17, 2 p.m.: Kaffeestunde at the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Read More »
Friday, October 17, 1:30-4:00: German Department sponsors Second Language Teaching & Learning Workshop Read More »
October 30 & November 6 Read More »
Congratulations to Professor Christine Lehleiter: Her monograph study Romanticism, Origins and the History of Heredity was published this month in the prestigious New Studies in the Age of Goethe series. Examining novels by Goethe, Jean Paul, and E.T.A. Hoffmann, studies on plant hybridization, treatises on animal breeding, and anatomical collections, Romanticism, Origins, and the History of Heredity delineates how romantic authors imagined the ramifications of emerging notions of heredity for the conceptualization of selfhood. Read More »
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