Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Toronto
Almut Suerbaum (Oxford) presents: Alternative Aesthetics and Collective Authorship: Medieval German Religious Songs Read More »
Guest Lecture: Alternative Aesthetics and Collective Authorship: Medieval German Religious Songs
Past Events
Kometz-alef: oh! Back to School at the Yiddish Kheyder – an exhibition by Miriam Borden
A large number of Yiddish speaking, Eastern European Jews immigrated to Canada between the years the late 1800s and early 1900s in response to an aggressive immigration policy instituted by the Canadian government as well as a series of pogroms in Eastern Europe... Read More »
Congratulations to Professor John Noyes, on his special appointment in South Africa
John Noyes has been appointed Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Read More »
Kaffeestunde: Thursday, March 1 at 1 p.m.
Please join us for our next Kaffeestunde on Thursday, March 1 at 1 p.m. Read More »
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 »