Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Toronto
Please join us for our next Kaffeestunde on Thursday, March 1 at 1 p.m. Read More »
Kaffeestunde: Thursday, March 1 at 1 p.m.
Past Events
Kaffeestunde: Friday, February 16 at 2 p.m.
Please join us for our next Kaffeestunde on Friday, February 16 at 2 p.m. Read More »
Kaffeestunde: Friday, October 18 at 2 p.m.
Please join us for our next Kaffeestunde on Friday, October 18 at 2 p.m. Read More »
Guest lecture, Feb 27: Stefan Willer: “A Room Secured on Every Side”: Terror, Safety, and Security in Franz Kafka
Stefan Willer is full professor of modern German literature at Humboldt University Berlin. From 2010 to 2018 he was associate director of the Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) Berlin. He held visiting professorships at Munich, EHESS Paris, UNAM Mexico City, Stanford and UC Santa Barbara... Read More »
Kaffeestunde: Thursday, February 6 at 1 p.m.
Please join us for our next Kaffeestunde on Thursday, February 6 at 1 p.m. Read More »
Guest lecture, Nov 14: Elliott Schreiber: “Narcissus at Play: Goethe, Piaget, and Passage from Egocentric to Social Play.”
ELLIOTT SCHREIBER is associate professor and chair of the Department of German Studies at Vassar College, where he also teaches courses in a variety of multidisciplinary programs, including Media Studies as well as Science, Technology, and Society... Read More »
Kaffeestunde: Friday, September 20 at 2 p.m.
Please join us for our next Kaffeestunde on Friday, September 20 at 2 p.m. Read More »
Guest lecture, Sept 26: Ori Rotlevy: “Rethinking Freedom in Tradition: Benjamin between Kant and Kafka”
ORI ROTLEVY is a postdoctoral fellow at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and teaches philosophy at Tel Aviv University... Read More »
Guest lecture, March 7: Nicole Perry: “German Indianthusiasm and Indigenous Remasterings”
NICOLE PERRY is a Senior Lecturer in German and Comparative Literature at the University of Auckland... Read More »
Kaffeestunde: Friday, January 18 at 2 p.m.
Please join us for our next Kaffeestunde on Friday, January 18 at 2 p.m. Read More »