Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Toronto
The German Studies Students Union cordially invites you to attend a lecture delivered by Marlo Burks... Read More »
GSSU Lecture, Nov 23: Marlo Burks: Art’s Challenge: An Analysis of the Role of Aesthetics in the Work of Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Past Events
Kaffeestunde: Friday, March 17 at 2 p.m.
Please join us for our next Kaffeestunde on Friday, March 17 at 2 p.m. Read More »
Kaffeestunde: November 18, 2 pm
Please join us for our next Kaffeestunde on Friday, November 18 at 2 p.m. Read More »
Guest lecture, Feb 10: Frauke Berndt: Beautiful Suffering. Friedrich Schiller and Contemporary German Photography: Jens Neumann and Edgar Rodtmann
Frauke Berndt is Professor of German Literature at the University of Zürich. Her books include Anamnesis. Studien zur Topik der Erinnerung in der erzählenden Literatur zwischen 1800 und 1900... Read More »
Guest lecture, Nov 24: Dr. Pierre Louis Patoine: Neurohumanities & Cognitive Literary Studies: The Example of Empathic Reading
Assistant Professor of American literature at Sorbonne-Nouvelle University (Paris III) since 2012, PIERRE-LOUIS PATOINE is the author of a book on the role of the empathic, physiological body in the experience of reading (ENS Editions, 2015)... Read More »
Theater DU presents “Büchner’s Woyzeck” 28/29/30 November 2016, 7:30 PM
28/29/30 November 2016, 7:30 PM, Georg Ignatieff Theatre (6 Hoskin Avenue) Read More »
Guest lecture, Dec 1: Prof. Stanley Corngold: Franz Kafka and the Poetry of Risk Insurance
Kafka’s stories allude to his culture with a fullness that is astonishing when one considers their economy of form. This work of allusion, a sort of movement through the cultural vehicles or media of his time, conforms to several logics... Read More »
Kaffeestunde: December 1, 1 pm
Please join us for our next Kaffeestunde on Thursday, December 1 at 1 p.m. Read More »
Kaffeestunde: Thursday, March 3 at 1 p.m.
Please join us for our next Kaffeestunde on Thursday, March 3 at 1 p.m. Read More »
Guest lecture, February 25: Professor Rolf Goebel: Auditory Anxieties: The Sounds of German Literary Modernism
Professor ROLF J. GOEBEL, Ph. D., is Distinguished Professor of German and Chair of the Dept. of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Alabama in Huntsville... Read More »