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” […]
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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
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 […]
Graduate students Dargan and Schmitz present at NeMLA
Graduate students in German Gargi Dargan and Lisa Schmitz presented papers at the 2024 NeMLA convention in Boston (March 7-10). Dargan presented the paper “Wound within History: Suppressed Trauma in […]
Prof. Haubenreich participates in roundtable following Thomas Bernhard world premiere at JHU
As part of the celebration at Hopkins of Immanuel Kant’s 300th birthday, Prof. Haubenreich participated in post-show discussion of Thomas Bernhard’s play Immanuel Kant, along with translator Douglas Robertson, dramaturg […]
Christiane Frey presents lecture and workshop on Kant at Brown University
Prof. Frey will present the lecture “Cosmos, Climate, Covenant: Making Peace with Kant” and a lead a workshop-discussion of Kant’s “Zum ewigen Frieden” at Brown University on 4-5 March, 2024.
Portuguese Program Newsletter Volume 7
Please enjoy the Johns Hopkins University’s Portuguese Program Spring 2023 newsletter. The newsletter includes student stories, program highlights, and useful information from the last school year.
Max Kade Center 2024 Summer Travel Grants – Deadline April 1
The German Program, with the support of the Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought, is pleased to announce 10 Travel Grants in the amount of $1,500 to support summer […]
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Award
The Dean’s Teaching Fellowship provides graduate students an opportunity to grow as educators and scholars by allowing them to propose, design, and offer an undergraduate seminar course. Silvia Raimondi, a […]
Dante Society of America’s Undergraduate Essay Prize
We would like to congratulate Holly Nelson (’23), who has won the 2023 Dante Society of America’s “Dante Prize” for her essay “Absolving Matelda: Engaging with Ecofeminism in Dante’s Purgatorio.” […]