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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
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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
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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
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Roundtable: Graduate Program Alumni
The German Department hosted an Alumni Roundtable on November 4, 2016, as part of ongoing efforts to foster opportunities for graduate students to connect with our alumni and…
November 4, 2016
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Speaker Series: German Scholars in the DC Area Featuring Dr. Julie Koser
The German Department welcomed Dr. Julie Koser on October 20, 2016, as the guest speaker in the German Department’s inaugural Speaker Series: Scholars in the DC Area. Dr. Koser…
October 20, 2016
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Lecture and Workshop with Professor Ritchie Robertson
The German department welcomed Professor Ritchie Robertson for two events, a lecture titled “Rethinking the Enlightenment: The Poetics of Sympathy from Lessing to Burns” and…
September 16, 2016
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Meanings of Modern Work in Times of Disruption, 19th and 21st Centuries
Georgetown German Professor Peter C. Pfeiffer, in cooperation with the BMW Center for German and European Studies and the Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD), hosted an…
April 9, 2016
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Discussion with Max Kade Writer-in-Residence Maxi Obexer
The German Department hosted a reading with Maxi Obexer of her new essay, “Der längste Sommer” on March 18, 2016. Es ist keine sonderlich lange Reise, die die…
March 18, 2016
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Lecture with Prof. Michael Braun, Memory Contests: Neue deutsche Erinnerungskulturen im Film
Since unification in 1990, the number of films dealing with Germany’s various pasts has surged. The problem they confront us with, however, is no longer how to come to terms…
February 26, 2016
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Discussions with Max Kade Writer-in-Residence Maxi Obexer
Since becoming a fellow of the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (LCB) at the age of 23, Maxi Obexer has been living in Berlin. In addition to her creative work, she regularly…
February 17, 2016