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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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