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Professor Shternshis has been awarded a six-month research fellowship with the Jackman Humanities Institute to pursue a project entitled “Last Yiddish Heroes... Read More »

Congratulations to Willi Goetschel who received the Moses Mendelssohn Prize of the City of Dessau... Read More »

On Wednesday, February 5th, Professor Markus Stock was installed as the 17th Principal of University College. Congratulations! Read More »

Congratulations to Christine Lehleiter who has been awarded a Humboldt Fellowship for her project ‘Stimulus, Response, Behavior: Habit at the Intersection of Nature and Culture (1750-1850)’ Read More »

This volume explores the way various aspects of heresy – as difference, variation, and deviation – have come to function in Jewish history and tradition. The main argument of this volume is that heresy not only distinguishes, demarcates, and separates groups, but creates a social, political and religious dynamics that has proved to sustain rather than disrupt tradition... Read More »

After a year of developing relationships, visiting organizations on site, securing funding, and developing supporting structures and materials, our first cohort of students are on their way to Germany’s green capital to take up their placements with futurGenerator Toronto - Freiburg... Read More »

The Department congratulates Professor John Noyes for winning a SSHRC Insight Grant for his project "Goethe's World" Read More »

Congratulations to John Zilcosky and Marlo Burks on the publication of their new book The Allure of Sports in Western Culture... 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 »

When the futurGenerator team heard about the Department of Geography and Planning’s project to create an installation for International Park(ing) Day, we knew we had to get involved! Read More »