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Kaffeestunde is a weekly gathering of the university's German-speaking community.
German 490 Film Screening: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) will have its film screenings on Tuesday evenings.
Kaffeestunde
Kaffeestunde is a weekly gathering of the university's German-speaking community.
German 490 Film Screening: Nosferatu - Symphonie des Gravens
German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) will have its film screenings on Tuesday evenings.
Kaffeestunde
Kaffeestunde is a weekly gathering of the university's German-speaking community.
January Pizza Pause
Pizza Pause is held three to four times a semester to provide an opportunity for students (or members of the WashU community!) to practice their German in a relaxed social setting.
German 490 Film Screening: Metropolis
German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) will have its film screenings on Tuesday evenings.
Kaffeestunde
Kaffeestunde is a weekly gathering of the university's German-speaking community.
Schriftsteller und ihr gesellschaftliches "Engagement": ein transatlantischer Vergleich zwischen Deutschland und den USA: Paul Ingendaay Colloquium
Paul Ingendaay is the 2020 Max Kade Critic-in-Residence.
Major-Minor Welcome Week Kaffee und Kuchen
We look forward to hosting our sophomore majors and minors during Arts & Sciences Major-Minor Welcome Week.
German 490 Film Screening: M-Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) will have its film screenings on Tuesday evenings.
Kaffeestunde
Kaffeestunde is a weekly gathering of the university's German-speaking community.
Fack ju Göhte: Germanic Film Series
The spring 2020 Germanic Film Series sets out to explore various aspects of German humor. Do Germans and Austrians have a sense of humor? And, if so, what does that look like?
German 490 Film Screening: Triumph des Willens
German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) will have its film screenings on Tuesday evenings.
Kaffeestunde
Kaffeestunde is a weekly gathering of the university's German-speaking community.
February Pizza Pause
Pizza Pause is held three to four times a semester to provide an opportunity for students (or members of the WashU community!) to practice their German in a relaxed social setting.
German 490 Film Screening: Abschied von Gestern
German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) will have its film screenings on Tuesday evenings.
Kaffeestunde
Kaffeestunde is a weekly gathering of the university's German-speaking community.
German 490 Film Screening: Jakob, der Lügner
German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) will have its film screenings on Tuesday evenings.
Staff Kaffeestunde
Kaffeestunde is a weekly gathering of the university's German-speaking community.
German 490 Film Screening: Angst essen Seele auf
German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) will have its film screenings on Tuesday evenings.
Kaffeestunde
Kaffeestunde is a weekly gathering of the university's German-speaking community.
CANCELLED: March Pizza Pause
Pizza Pause is held three to four times a semester to provide an opportunity for students (or members of the WashU community!) to practice their German in a relaxed social setting.
CANCELLED: Basta - Rotwein oder Totsein: Germanic Film Series
The spring 2020 Germanic Film Series sets out to explore various aspects of German humor. Do Germans and Austrians have a sense of humor? And, if so, what does that look like?
CANCELLED: German 490 Film Screening: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) will have its film screenings on Tuesday evenings.
CANCELLED: Kaffeestunde
Kaffeestunde is a weekly gathering of the university's German-speaking community.
CANCELLED: Germanic Lecture: The Feuilleton and the Ornamental Image: Hofmannsthal, Polgar, Musil
Patrizia McBride, Director of the Institute for German Cultural Studies & Professor of German at Cornell University, will give our spring lecture.
CANCELLED: German 490 Film Screening: Gegen die Wand
German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) will have its film screenings on Tuesday evenings.
CANCELLED: Kaffeestunde
Kaffeestunde is a weekly gathering of the university's German-speaking community.
CANCELLED: German 490 Film Screening: Das weiße Band
German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) will have its film screenings on Tuesday evenings.
CANCELLED: Kaffeestunde
Kaffeestunde is a weekly gathering of the university's German-speaking community.
"Nachhaltigkeit und Vergeudung": Oekologische Perspektiven auf die deutsche Lyrik der Gegenwart: Monika Rinck Colloquium
Monika Rinck is the 2020 Max Kade Writer-in-Residence.
CANCELLED: German 490 Film Screening: Victoria
German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) will have its film screenings on Tuesday evenings.
CANCELLED: Kaffeestunde
Kaffeestunde is a weekly gathering of the university's German-speaking community.
CANCELLED: Good Bye, Lenin!: Germanic Film Series
The spring 2020 Germanic Film Series sets out to explore various aspects of German humor. Do Germans and Austrians have a sense of humor? And, if so, what does that look like?
CANCELLED: German 490 Film Screening: Toni Erdmann
German 490 (Undergraduate Seminar: Intro to German Cinema) will have its film screenings on Tuesday evenings.
CANCELLED: Kaffeestunde
Kaffeestunde is a weekly gathering of the university's German-speaking community.
German 4105 Creative Writing Salon
This event will be an online literary salon (via Zoom) showcasing brand-new literary works written in German by undergrads enrolled in German 4105: Creative Writing? In German? Geht klar!
CANCELLED: April Pizza Pause
Pizza Pause is held three to four times a semester to provide an opportunity for students (or members of the WashU community!) to practice their German in a relaxed social setting.
CANCELLED: Faculty Kaffeestunde
Kaffeestunde is a weekly gathering of the university's German-speaking community.
Bear Beginnings Open House
An open house for new undergraduates (first-year and transfer).
Virtual Major-Minor Fair
First-year and Sophomore students can register now for the 2020 Major/Minor Fair!
Germanic Lecture: Suspicious Spiral - Autofiction and Black German Subjectivity in Olivia Wenzel’s 1000 Serpentinen Angst
Priscilla Layne, Associate Professor of German at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will give our fall lecture.
Halloween with the Dean
Study Abroad Showcase
Overseas Programs is excited to offer a two-day event for Danforth Campus students to learn more about available study abroad opportunities on November 4th and 5th from 3:00-5:00pm (CT)
Legacies of Violence and Genocide: Can Memorials and Museums Help Us Build a Better Future?
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Panel discussion featuring the following participants: Avril Alba, Ph.D., senior lecturer in Holocaust studies and Jewish civilization in the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney; Zahava D. Doering, PhD., editor emerita of Curator: The Museum Journal and worked as senior social scientist at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; David Cunningham, Ph.D., professor and chair of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis; and moderator Erin McGlothlin, Ph.D., chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures and professor of German and Jewish studies at Washington University in St. Louis.
Multidirectional Memories, Implicated Subjects, and the Possibilities of Art
HUMANITIES BROADCAST: Lecture by Michael Rothberg, the 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies and professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, and conversation with Rothberg and WashU professors Anika Walke (History) and Geoff Ward (African and African-American Studies).
Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Its Outtakes: The Ethics of Perpetrator Representation
Professor Erin McGlothlin will give a lecture with The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University.
Anxious Ears: Soundscapes and the Art of Listening in Postwar German Radio Drama
HUMANITIES BROADCAST - Caroline A. Kita is associate professor of German and comparative literature at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of ‘Jewish Difference and the Arts: Composing Compassion in Music and Biblical Theater’ (Indiana UP 2019). Her research encompasses German and Austrian Literature, German-Jewish Culture, music, theater and radio drama.