All Posts: Past Events

51 Articles

Past Events

From the Total Artwork to Multimodal Scholarship (or How a Modernist found Residence in Non-Linear Thinking): Lecture with Dr. Anke Finger

Digital scholarship, if understood not only as working with digital methodologies and tools, but also as communicating and publishing beyond print media, challenges the…

January 19, 2018

Past Events

Julius Posener (1904-1996): Surprising Witness to Postwar German Suffering – Lecture with Dr. Irene Kacandes

Born in Berlin to an assimilated Jewish family, Julius Posener studied architecture with Hans Poelzig and worked in the office of Erich Mendelsohn.  When Hitler came to,…

October 16, 2017

Past Events

Wie Dekolonisiert man deutsche Geschichte im Museum? Lecture with Dr. Katrin Sieg

The presentation given by Dr. Sieg examined the recent special exhibition on German Colonialism at the German History Museum in Berlin to ask how the museum choreographs…

September 25, 2017

Past Events

Poetry Reading with Dr. Michael Speier

In his new poems Michael Speier showed how works of art become words, visiting artists such as Vermeer, Botticelli and Renoir. Oskar Kokoschka paints Chancellor Adenauer on…

September 15, 2017

Past Events

Private Lives/Public Virtues: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Long Eighteenth Century

Scholars have long focused on the “long eighteenth century” in Europe and America as a time of radical transformation, both in the realm of public life and vis-à-vis notions…

April 28, 2017

Past Events

Two Events with Professor Naoko Taguchi

The German department, in conjunction with the FLL, was pleased to sponsor two events with Professor Naoko Taguchi on April 7, 2017. Dr. Taguchi hosted a hands-on…

April 7, 2017

Past Events

Österreich-Tage: Events for Undergraduate German Students and Professors

The Österreich–Tage event started off on Friday, March 31, with a two-hour presentation and discussion session led by Julia Ruck, Dr. Stefan Krammer and Gerti…

March 31, 2017

Past Events

Speaker Series: Scholars in the DC Area featuring Dr. Jonathan Skolnik

Author and Associate Professor of German at UMass Amherst Dr. Jonathan Skolnik joined the German Department to talk about his book Jewish Pasts, German Fictions (Stanford,).…

March 17, 2017

Past Events

Developing Multiple Literacies – 20 Year Celebration

In 1997, the members of the Georgetown University German Department made a big decision to accept the challenge to reinvent the foreign language curriculum in a way that no other…

March 2, 2017

Past Events

Reading and Discussion with Author Jonathan Huston

On February 7, 2017, the German department welcomed bilingual author Jonathan Huston to read excerpts from his works, most notably his collection of short stories titled…

February 7, 2017