German Minor Savannah Bein has secured a fellowship from the School of Cities to lead an ‘Urban Sustainability Working Group’ within the newly formed School of Cities Student Academy... Read More »
This book presents the first English translation of Herder's foundational essay along with critical responses to it by today's leading Herder scholars... Read More »
German Minor Savannah Bein has secured a fellowship from the School of Cities to lead an ‘Urban Sustainability Working Group’ within the newly formed School of Cities Student Academy... Read More »
Congratulations to James Retallack who has been awarded the Central European History Society’s Hans Rosenberg Book Prize for his 2017 book, Red Saxony: Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918. Read More »
Heinrich Heine's role in the formation of Critical Theory has been systematically overlooked in the course of the successful appropriation of his thought by Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and the legacy they left, in particular for Adorno, Benjamin and the Frankfurt School. This book examines the critical connections that led Adorno to call for a “reappraisal” of Heine in a 1948 essay that, published posthumously, remains under-examined... Read More »
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 »
The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto invites applications for a Contractually Limited Term Appointment (CLTA) in the area of German Language Pedagogy. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, for a one-year term, beginning July 1, 2019 and ending June 30, 2020. Read More »
HOW TO APPLY! 2019-2020 Graduate Program Read More »
DAAD German Language Teaching & Learning Workshop The fourth annual conference offers the chance to learn from experts in the field and to mingle with peers from other Canadian universities in an intellectually stimulating and collegial context. We are especially excited about this year’s line-up of speakers: Daniel Bowles from Boston College, Nicolay Ostrau from Dartmouth College, Maria Morrison from McGill University, James Skidmore from Waterloo University, Jason Lieblang from UBC, and a speaker from the Goethe-Institut Toronto. Coming soon! December 8th and 9th 2018 Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, 1 Devonshire Place Read More »
George Kurt Weissenborn ~ In Memoriam Read More »
Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Toronto