Rethinking Black Feminist Solidarity in Germany
Tiffany Florvil, Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico
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Willi Winkler (Max Kade Critic) Colloquium: Maxim Billers Blick zurueck aufs Literarische Quartett
Willi Winkler is the 2021 Max Kade Critic-in-Residence.
Serienabend 1: Freud
Please join us for the first German department Serienabend.
Singing Schubert, Hearing Race: Debating Blackness, Whiteness, and German Music in Interwar Era Central Europe
Kira Thurman, Assistant Professor of History and German at the University of Michigan
Becoming A Literary Translator: A Work in Progress
Lucy North, professional translator
A Catholic Woman and Her Jewish Family in Nineteenth-Century Poland: A Coming-of-Age Tale about National Identity, Religion and Alienation
A lecture on the topic of Jewish life in prewar/wartime Europe
Serienabend 2: Dark
Please join us for the March German department Serienabend.
How to be a Medievalist – and Why
An undergraduate workshop by Christian Schneider
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?
Walter Johnson is the Winthrop Professor of History and professor of African and African American studies at Harvard University. He is author of “The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States.” - Faculty Book Celebration 2021
The Last Ghetto: A New History of the Theresienstadt Ghetto
A lecture series on the topic of Jewish life in prewar/wartime Europe
Yom HaShoah Memorial Speaker Event
Join WashU Hillel as we come together as a community to hear Holocaust survivor Engelina Billauer tell her story and commemorate Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). Everyone is welcome!
Fleeing Nazi Germany: Jewish Refugees in Portugal
A lecture on the topic of Jewish life in prewar/wartime Europe
Esther Dischereit (Max Kade Writer) Colloquium: Der Anschlag auf die Synagoge in Halle 2019 - Zeugnis und Literatur
Esther Dischereit is the 2021 Max Kade Writer-in-Residence.
Jewish revivalism in the Arab Gulf States
A Talk with Dr. Moran Zaga
Serienabend 3: Babylon Berlin
Please join us for the April German department Serienabend.
Getting Started in the World of Literary Translation
Roundtable with Sarah Booker, Paul Cunningham & Bruna Dantas Lobato
Germanic Lecture: Feuilleton, Reportage, and the Realism of Small-Form Writing, 1900-1930
Patrizia McBride, Senior Associate Dean for Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Programs, Director of the Institute for German Cultural Studies, and Professor of German Studies at Cornell University
Scholarly Writing Retreat 2021
For Washington University humanities and humanistic social sciences faculty, post-docs and graduate students
Erin McGlothlin New Book Launch
Erin McGlothlin's new monograph will be discussed in the New Books in Perpetrator Studies series held by the Perpetrator Studies Network.
Fall 2021 Bear Beginnings Open House
An open house for new undergraduates (first-year and transfer).
Fall Classes Begin
Transnational Framings: The German Literary Field in the Age of Nationalism
25th Biennial St. Louis Symposium on German Literature and Culture
German Film Series: Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God on September 29, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.
Virtual Major-Minor Fair
First-year and Sophomore students can register now for the 2021 Major/Minor Fair!
German Film Series: Nosferatu the Vampyre
Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre on October 26, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.
Embrace Everything: A Conversation with Aaron Cohen about Mahler and the Art of Podcasting
Join us for a conversation with Aaron Cohen, Director of Programming Operations at New York Public Radio and Producer of the podcast, "Embrace Everything: The World of Gustav Mahler", led by Caroline Kita, Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature.
German Film Series: Grizzly Man
Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man on November 18, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.