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DAAD Opportunities for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
With the current year slowly coming to an end, application deadlines for various DAAD-opportunities for spending productive time in Germany are also starting to approach. Most deadlines are December 15, 2014. Start your application as soon as possible! Read More »
Contemporary Remediations of Race and Ethnicity in German Visual Cultures
Special Issue of TRANSIT: A Journal of Travel, Migration, and Multiculturalism in the German-speaking World Co-edited by Prof. Angelica Fenner (and Prof. Uli Linke). Read More »
Tuğçe Albayrak in Memoriam
She refused to look away. Read about her act of courage. Read More »
Christine Lehleiter: Romanticism, Origins and the History of Heredity
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
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 »
Prof. Goetschel executive editor of
The Germanic Review
Prof. Goetschel executive editor of The Germanic Review Read More »
Launch of Undergraduate Journal of German Studies Zeitgeist
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 »
Prof. Goetschel publishes the 9th volume of the Collected Works by Hermann Levin Goldschmidt
Prof. Goetschel publishes the 9th volume of the Collected Works by Hermann Levin Goldschmidt Read More »
University of Toronto’s Modern Languages and Literatures among the best 15 in the world
In its “QS World University Ranking by Subjects,” the influential QS World University Ranking 2014 confirmed that the modern languages and literatures departments at the University of Toronto are among the best fifteen worldwide... Read More »