PhD candidates Glen Gray and Brad Harmon each received a Fulbright Grant to Germany for the 2024–2025 academic year. Based at the University of Hamburg, Glen will be working on […]
German PhD candidates Gray and Harmon receive Fulbright Grants
News & Announcements Archive
Professors Frey and Tobias participate in international conference “Sensus Non-Communis: Gegenwarten im Widerstreit”
Held on June 13-14 at the Universität Bonn, the conference was a collaboration of the Max Kade Institute for Modern German Thought at JHU & the GRK DFG-Graduiertenkolleg Gegenwart/Literatur. Conference description (English): […]
Prof. Gosetti-Ferencei discusses new book “Imagination: A Very Short Introduction” at Humanities in the Village
Professor Gosetti-Ferenci discussed her recent book Imagination: A Very Short Introduction in conversation with Jane Bennett on April 29 at Bird in Hand Cafe. The event was part of the […]
MLL graduate students at Cinema Ritrovato Film Festival in Bologna
This coming summer, our graduate students Marta Cerreti (Italian), Sam Zawacki (Italian), Camille Roche (French), Verónica Ríos Savreda (Spanish and Portuguese), and Käthe Erichsen (Hebrew and Yiddish), with Professors Di […]
Professor Laura Di Bianco, AGHI Fellow
The Italian Section is delighted to announce that Professor Laura Di Bianco has been selected as an Alexander Grass Humanities Center (AGHI) fellow. During the 2024-2025 academic year, she will […]
Environmental Humanities Research Initiative Spring Panels
Organized and moderated by Prof. Gosetti-Ferencei, the department of MLL and the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at JHU sponsored two Spring panels for the Environmental Humanities Research Initiative. A graduate-student […]
Daniel Carranza delivers lecture “The Problem of Morphological Comparison: Goethe, Wittgenstein, Lévi-Strauss”
Invited the graduate students in German, Daniel Carranza (Harvard) presented a lecture on April 18 titled “The Problem of Morphological Comparison: Goethe, Wittgenstein, and Lévi-Strauss.”
International Symposium “Perpetually Toward? Revisiting Kant on Global Peace” hosted at JHU
Join our Symposium “Perpetually Toward? Revisiting Kant on Global Peace” at Johns Hopkins University –– April 4–6, 2024. The symposium will offer the opportunity to discuss Kant’s “Toward Perpetual Peace” […]
Spinner Awarded NEH Fellowship
Samuel Spinner Received NEH Fellowship for his Book Project Samuel Spinner, Assistant Professor, Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Chair in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, […]
Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky delivers lecture on Benjamin’s concept of cosmic experience and philosophy of technology
Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Bochum), Max Kade Visiting Professor of German for the Spring 2024 semester, delivered a lecture on March 13 titled “‘New Stars Were Rising in the Sky’: Benjamin’s Concept […]