Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Toronto
Reading Group, Fall/Winter 2020/21 Read More »
Reading Group Ekphrasis: Text-Image Denkräume
Events
Side by Side Writing: Fridays 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Side-by-side writing works as follows: It is not a writing feedback group. It’s just a way to make writing progress while hanging out with friends and colleagues (this is also known as: zwei Fliegen auf einen Streich). Read More »
What’s View?! Film Series on Anarchism
The "What's View?!" film group is resuming starting this February and will be screening a film once a month. The overarching theme of the first few films is anarchism and the line up is the following... Read More »
Postponed to the fall: Lecture: Elisabeth Lange: “Jede Hoffnung eine Illusion”: Perceiving Pessimism in the Literature of Marlen Haushofer and Sibylle Berg
The literary works of Marlen Haushofer and Sibylle Berg intersect in their avoidance of “happy endings”, their accounts of death, destruction, and apocalyptic events as well as their portrayals of failing ideals such as romantic love and the concept of family... Read More »
Postponed to the fall: Lecture: Rita Laszlo: Between Selbstbewusstsein and Leichtgläubigkeit: Towards a Genealogy of Gullibility through Kleist’s Die Marquise von O… and Über das Marionettentheater
Irrespective of whether Leichtgläubigkeit (gullibility) is a positive or negative term, connotationally it compels us to pick a side, and thus favours partiality in the directions of Vorurteil... Read More »