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    March 26, 2022 9:30 AM

    Graduate Student Symposium

    Hillman 60
    April 08, 2022 11:00 AM

    Colloquium with Max Kade Writer, Felicitas Hoppe: "Der autofiktionale Roman: Zum Beispiel "Hoppe"

    Felicitas Hoppe, born in Hameln in 1960, lives as a writer in Berlin and Leuk. Since 1996 she has published short stories, novels, children's books and feuilletons; she also works as a translator. The novel Hoppe was published in 2012. Her novel Pravda was published in spring 2018
    German Lounge (Ridgley 317)
    April 14, 2022 4:00 PM

    Paul Michael Lützeler's Retirement Reception & Lecture

    On the occasion of his retirement, Prof. Paul Michael Lützeler, Director of the Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature, will give the lecture: “John Brown v. Jim Crow: Doctorow's Ragtime and Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas (In Memory of James E. McLeod)” Words of congratulations, praise, and commemoration by Lynne Tatlock and Peter Stephan Jungk.
    Holmes Lounge (Ridgley Hall)
    April 22, 2022 11:00 AM

    Reading with Hengameh Yaghoobifarah

    The Center for the Humanities Reading Group “Comparative Readings of LGBTQ+ Literature in German” (Conveners: Christian Schuetz, Franzi Finkenstein) invites you to join for a discussion of Hengameh’s 2021 debut novel Ministerium der Träume (English: Ministry of Dreams) published by Blumenbar/Aufbau Verlag. Hengameh will be reading the novel’s first chapter in English and some other passages in German, followed by a Q&A and discussion in English. Please note: this is a Zoom event.
    May 20, 2022 11:30 AM

    German and Comparative Literature Commencement Celebration

    Join us to celebrate our graduating German and Comparative Literature students!
    September 08, 2022 3:00 PM

    German and Comparative Literature Fall Welcome

    Welcome to the Fall 2022 semester!
    McMillan Courtyard and McMillan Cafe
    October 13, 2022 6:00 PM

    William H. Matheson Lecture and Reception with Johannes Göransson: "In Defense of Mimicry: Poetry in Translation"

    Johannes Göransson is an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Notre Dame.
    Hurst Lounge | Duncker Hall
    October 14, 2022 11:00 AM

    William H. Matheson Workshop with Johannes Göransson:"Transgressive Circulation"

    Johannes Göransson is an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Notre Dame. Please Note: This workshop is limited to graduate students only.
    Eads 215
    October 14, 2022 3:00 PM

    A Roundtable Discussion of Erin McGlothlin’s New Book, The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Non-Fiction

    Moderator: Flora Cassen, Associate Professor of History; Chair of Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
    Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
    October 20, 2022 5:00 PM

    Public Opening: Lest We Forget

    Join us for the opening of the Holocaust memorial exhibition of photographic portraits of survivors by Luigi Toscano, Lest We Forget. Special remarks will be made by the artist as well as Erin McGlothlin, professor of German and Jewish Studies in Arts & Sciences.
    Steinberg Auditorium & Kemper Art Museum lobby
    20October

    Public Opening: Lest We Forget

    Join us for the opening of the Holocaust memorial exhibition of photographic portraits of survivors by Luigi Toscano, Lest We Forget. Special remarks will be made by the artist as well as Erin McGlothlin, professor of German and Jewish Studies in Arts & Sciences.
    Steinberg Auditorium & Kemper Art Museum lobby  |  5:00 PM
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    November 03, 2022 5:00 PM

    2022 Holocaust Memorial Lecture: Jeffrey Veidlinger

    Jeffrey Veidlinger is Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Professor Veidlinger is the author of In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust, and the award-winning books, In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine, The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage, and Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire. Veidlinger is the chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History, a member of the Executive Committee of the American Academy for Jewish Research, a member of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and a former vice president of the Association for Jewish Studies.
    Clark Fox Forum, Hillman Hall
    03November

    2022 Holocaust Memorial Lecture: Jeffrey Veidlinger

    Jeffrey Veidlinger is Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Professor Veidlinger is the author of In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust, and the award-winning books, In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine, The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage, and Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire. Veidlinger is the chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History, a member of the Executive Committee of the American Academy for Jewish Research, a member of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and a former vice president of the Association for Jewish Studies.
    Clark Fox Forum, Hillman Hall  |  5:00 PM
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    November 03, 2022 6:00 PM

    Liselotte Dieckmann Lecture with Karin Schutjer—San Marco in the Muck: Goethe’s Venetian Epigrams as the Poetry of Emergent Form

    Hurst Lounge | 2nd floor of Duncker Hall
    November 04, 2022 11:00 AM

    Liselotte Dieckmann Workshop with Karin Schutjer—Writing a Journal Article: Tips and Inspirations

    Eads 215
    November 30, 2022 5:30 PM

    Translating Poetry (It’s Not Easy): Matthias Goeritz and Mary Jo Bang

    Join us for an evening celebrating the publication of Colonies of Paradise (Triquarterly, 2022) by Matthias Goeritz, Professor of Practice of Comparative Literature, and translated by Mary Jo Bang, Professor of English. Goeritz and Bang will discuss the innovative new translation of the original German work, which takes the reader on a tour of Paris, Chicago, Hamburg, and Moscow, exploring themes of childhood, travel, and the human experience. As practitioners of both poetry and the translation of poetry, our two authors will converse about the tricky but crucial work of literary translation.
    Ginkgo Reading Room | John M. Olin Library
    30November

    Translating Poetry (It’s Not Easy): Matthias Goeritz and Mary Jo Bang

    Join us for an evening celebrating the publication of Colonies of Paradise (Triquarterly, 2022) by Matthias Goeritz, Professor of Practice of Comparative Literature, and translated by Mary Jo Bang, Professor of English. Goeritz and Bang will discuss the innovative new translation of the original German work, which takes the reader on a tour of Paris, Chicago, Hamburg, and Moscow, exploring themes of childhood, travel, and the human experience. As practitioners of both poetry and the translation of poetry, our two authors will converse about the tricky but crucial work of literary translation.
    Ginkgo Reading Room  |  5:30 PM
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