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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
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Disorganizing Genre in Maren Ade’s Screwball Tragedy Toni Erdmann: Lecture with Dr. Hester Baer
This talk with Dr. Hester Baer investigated the relationship between changing socioeconomic contexts and the emergence of new aesthetic forms in contemporary German cinema,…
March 13, 2018
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My Most Prized Possessions: A reading with Max Kade Writer-in-Residence Christopher Kloeble
On Friday, February 23, the Georgetown German Department’s Max Kade writer-in-residence Christopher Kloeble held a reading of his more recent publications. From his memoir,…
February 23, 2018