Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Toronto

Dear undergraduate and graduate students, staff, and faculty of the German Department: We’d like to invite all of you to our Kaffeestunde (coffee hour), the German Department’s social gathering of faculty, graduate and undergraduate students. Let’s meet and mingle over coffee, tea and Keksen for an informal chat in German. The Kaffeestunde will take place every first Thursday and third Friday of the month from 2-3 p.m. in the Lounge of the German Department, Odette Hall 301. Please join us for our next Kaffeestunde on Thursday, March 2 at 2 pm. *Help us protect the environment and bring your own reusable cup* Angelica Fenner Acting Chair Read More »

Talk by André Flicker Title: Voicelessness, Narration, and Documentation: On the Dramatic Agon of Expression in Karl Kraus’s “Die letzten Tage der Menschheit” Thursday 9 March, 4:00-5:30pm Odette Hall 323 and on zoom Read More »

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The Global Languages Initiative is excited to announce this year’s Language and Culture Day held on Friday, March 10th from 2pm to 4:30pm in Father Madden Hall at St. Mike’s College. Whether you are interested in expanding your existing knowledge of a language, deepening your connection with your linguistic and cultural heritage, or are simply curious about foreign languages and cultures, you are all invited! Read More »

Dear Students,Learning German? Interested in gaining work experience during your studies while taking advantage of your German skills? Whatever your major is, the iPRAKTIKUM team is ready to help you find an exciting internship opportunity in Freiburg, one of Europe’s greenest cities, or Berlin, which was recently ranked as Germany’s social innovation capital. We offer pre-placement advising, support while you are on the job, and post-internship follow-up. How an internship can benefit you:•       Apply the skills you learn in the classroom in workplace situations.•       Gain valuable experience in innovative green-sector companies and organizations.•       Practice your German and develop global fluency.•       Gain insight into international work culture and jump-start a future career.•       Engage with local and global communities.•       Get course credit or a co-curricular citation on your U of T transcript.The iPRAKTIKUM team is accepting statements of interest for our Germany-based program, futurGenerator, which focusses on sustainability and social innovation-oriented organizations and companies in a variety of fields, including environmental education, migration projects, policy and practical conservation work.*We are very pleased to be able to support your placement with a stipend to help cover some of your living expenses in Germany!* If you are interested in an internship experience with futurGenerator, send us a brief statement of interest, a copy of your ... Read More »

John NoyesIs Race an Urphänomen? Chamberlain reads Herder (and Goethe)Thursday 16 February, 4:00-5:30pmOdette Hall 323and on zoom Read More »

Letter from the Chair Dear Friends of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, It was a delight to see students and faculty begin return to the Department and our beautiful campus in 2021-22 and we look forward to even more in-person events and activities becoming possible this academic year. My thanks to everyone for their positivity and support throughout this challenging time. During the past academic year, the Department was engaged in a comprehensive cyclical review mandated by the Province of Ontario. The consultation process encompassed faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, colleagues in our administrative offices and faculty from other units and programs. The nearly 200-page final document submitted in spring 2022 reports on everything from curriculum and learning objectives, student satisfaction and course enrolment, our success in securing external grants and research output, to faculty and administrative structure and our physical spaces. A concluding ‘Future Directions’ section identifies in broad terms a course for renewing our programs and activities on a number of levels. In the meantime, we’ve received the comments of our external reviewers, senior colleagues at institutions in Canada and abroad. In addition to praising our wonderful students, strong undergraduate and graduate programs, pioneering outreach initiatives ... Read More »

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The Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Toronto is inviting applications to our Graduate Program in German and Yiddish Literature, Culture and Theory. We will be holding two online information sessions: one this coming Thursday 24 November at 1pm , another on Tuesday 20 December at 4pm Eastern Time. Please join us at https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/84299689287 Read More »