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Christine Lehleiter: Romanticism, Origins and the History of Heredity

Posted on December 1, 2014

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 »

Extended Deadline: Zeitgeist 2015

Posted on October 23, 2014

With the help of various sponsors, including the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Arts and Science Student Union, the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, the Department of Political Science, the German Consulate General Toronto, as well as the University of Toronto's Dean's Student Initiative Fund, the GSSU was able to publish the first issue of Zeitgeist which will continue as an annual print issue... Read More »

Launch of Undergraduate Journal of German Studies Zeitgeist

Posted on September 26, 2014

With the help of various sponsors, including the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Arts and Science Student Union, the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, the Department of Political Science, the German Consulate General Toronto, as well as the University of Toronto's Dean's Student Initiative Fund, the GSSU was able to publish the first issue of Zeitgeist which will continue as an annual print issue... Read More »