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Fall of the Berlin Wall: 30th Anniversary Celebration
Professors Astrid Weigert and Anja Banchoff of the German Department organized a week-long series of events beginning Monday, November 4, to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of…
November 9, 2019
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Workshop with Dr. David Kim on Hannah Arendt
Dr. David Kim (UCLA) presented a workshop focused on a close reading of chapter 9 of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism, “The Decline of the Nation-State and…
October 31, 2019
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Diary Goes Digital: The Edition of Harry Graf Kessler’s Diary Online
The German Department was pleased to host Dr. Roland Kamzelak, Assistant Director and Leader of Development at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, for a talk on the…
September 27, 2019
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Simply a Small Room – How Digital is a University? Lecture with Dr. Michael Jäckel
Dr. Michael Jäckel, President of the University of Trier, spoke to German department students and faculty on higher education and digitization, specifically how universities are…
September 20, 2019
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For What It’s Worth: Reading with author Thorsten Nagelschmidt and translator Tim DeMarco
The German Department was pleased to present a reading and discussion with author Thorsten Nagelschmidt and translator Tim DeMarco from the novel For What It’s Worth (Was…
April 24, 2019
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Lecture with Dr. Andrea Geier, Max Kade Visiting Professor
Dr. Andrea Geier presented a lecture in German titled “Als Geisteswissenschaftler*in auf Twitter? Über Wissenschaftskommunikation in den sozialen Medien.” Im Unterschied zu…
April 2, 2019
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2019 Blitzlicht Conference
The German Department hosted for the first time the Blitzlicht Conference, conceptualized and organized by the department’s graduate students. The conference featured 5-10…
March 29, 2019
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2019 GRADNASFLA Symposium: Systemic Functional Linguistics Across Contexts
The German Department at Georgetown University hosted the 2019 GRADNASFLA Symposium: Systemic Functional Linguistics Across Contexts on February 22-24. Over the three days, the…
February 24, 2019
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Decolonizing the Museum – Transnational Comparisons
In 2016, the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened in Washington, DC, against the background of intense debates about public memorialization of slavery…
November 10, 2018
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Arts of Unconditioning: On Romantic Science and Poetry
Georgetown University’s German Department hosted a lecture by Dr. Gabriel Trop (Univ. of North Carolina) titled “Arts of Unconditioning: On Romantic Science and Poetry.”…
October 29, 2018