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Prof. Haubenreich participates in roundtable following Thomas Bernhard world premiere at JHU

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

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 […]

Christine Lehleiter, “Shape Shifters: Transformation & Natural Form in Goethe’s Narrative Prose” (2/28)

Christine Lehleiter, “Shape Shifters: Transformation & Natural Form in Goethe’s Narrative Prose” (2/28)

Christine Lehleiter, Associate Professor of German at the University of Toronto, focuses on 18th– and 19th-century German literary and scientific cultures, and her books include Romanticism, Origins, and the History of […]

Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Award

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

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.”  […]

Environmental Humanities Research Initiative Autumn Panel

Environmental Humanities Research Initiative Autumn Panel

December 5 at 5:30 pm until 7:30 pm “Visualizing Human and Ecological Loss in Latin America” (Gisela Heffes, Modern Languages and Literatures); “Beeing and Time: Toward a Literary Entomology” (Christiane Frey, Modern Languages and Literatures); […]

Call for 2024 MLN French issue contributions

The 2024 French issue of MLN invites original contributions, in English or in French, to a special issue entitled “Passage to the Nineteenth Century” edited by Daniel Desormeaux in collaboration […]

Film Screening: The Hidden Life of Trees / Das geheime Leben der Bäume

Film Screening: The Hidden Life of Trees / Das geheime Leben der Bäume

October 26 | Screening of the film The Hidden Life of Trees (Das geheime Leben der Bäume), based on Peter Wohlleben’s bestselling book by the same title. A follow-up film/book […]