Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Toronto
May 26th, 2015, 4 – 6 pm Northrop Frye Hall, Room 113 Victoria College Read More »
Lecture, May 26: Carol Jacobs: W. G. Sebald’s Art of Citation
Past Events
Lecture, April 30: Prof. Eckart Conze : “The German Foreign Office and its Nazi Past: A Book, a Debate, and the Problems of Commissioned History”
April 30, 2015, 4:00 – 6:00 pm Read More »
8th Annual Toronto German Studies Symposium 2015: Global Yiddish Culture, 1938 – 1948
April 20-21, 2015 Read More »
(En)Gendering Precarity: Maria Speth Film Retrospective. April 8 – 23
Employing the realist aesthetics associated with the 'Berlin School,’ this German director explores wome and girls at the social margins. Post-screening discussions facilitated by Professor Angelica Fenner, with Maria Speth in attendance for the closing film DAUGHTERS (Töchter). Free and open to the public. Read More »
Defending the Homeland: Rare Yiddish Songs of WWII. April 19, 8 p.m.
“Avant-bard” singer/songwriter/performer Psoy Korolenko and U of T Professor... Read More »
Last Kaffeestunde of this term! Thursday, April 2, at 1 p.m.
Please join us for our last Kaffeestunde of this term on Thursday, April 2, at 1 p.m. Read More »
Theater DU presents: HOCHWASSER III – A play by Günter Grass, adapted by Erol Boran. March 23/24/25, 7 p.m.
After F. Dürrenmatt’s Physicists (2010) and E. Boran’s Drakul(j)a (2013), GER 340 stages an adaptation of G. Grass’ Hochwasser, an absurd play about humans and beasts stranded in a house together. Read More »
Kaffeestunde: Friday, March 20, at 2 p.m.
Please join us for our next Kaffeestunde on Thursday, March 5, at 1 p.m. Read More »
Guest lecture, March 12: Michael Götting reads from his novel Contrapunctus
MICHAEL GÖTTING is a Berlin-based Afro-German author and journalist. On Thursday, March 12 at 1 p.m. he will read excerpts from his forthcoming debut novel Contrapunctus at the German Department Lounge (Odette Hall 301). Read More »
Check out our collaboration with the Goethe Films Series ‘Copy & Paste: From Murnau to Müller’ March 3, 5, 10
For the full program, please visit... Read More »