A Night of Horror: Nosferatu
Gilman 479Nosferatu poster
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“Publicum”: The Theater as a Paradigm of the Public Sphere in 18th-Century Literature
Gilman 479A Lecture by Christian Moser (University of Bonn / Max Kade Visiting Professor JHU)
Body Shaming: Obscenity, Materiality, and the Ontology of German Realist Literature
Gilman 479Erica Weitzman (PhD, Comparative Literature, NYU, 2012) is Associate Professor of German at Northwestern University. She is the author of Irony’s Antics: Walser, Kafka, Roth, and the German Comic Tradition (Northwestern […]
Ökopoetiken: Literarische Umwelten
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Beyond the Theologico-Political: Hannah Arendt and the Principle of Beginning
Presenter: Facundo Vega, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Description: What can and should be the promise of politics today? How does politics begin anew? In his talk, political philosopher Facundo Vega examines the strengths and limitations […]
Film Screening: The Hidden Life of Trees / Das geheime Leben der Bäume
Gilman 479Screening of the film The Hidden Life of Trees (Das geheime Leben der Bäume), based on Peter Wohlleben's bestselling book by the same title. This event is sponsored by the […]
Environmental Humanities Research Initiative Autumn Panel
Gilman 108Visualizing 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) Modified: Colonial Limits […]
Christine Lehleiter, “Shape Shifters: Transformation & Natural Form in Goethe’s Narrative Prose”
Gilman 479Christine 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 […]
Benjamin’s Concept of Cosmic Experience and Philosophy of Technology ca. 1930
"New Stars Were Rising in the Sky”: Benjamin's Concept of Cosmic Experience and Philosophy of Technology A lecture by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Bochum), Max Kade Visiting Professor of German, JHU
Language Night
Join Modern Languages and Literatures (MLL) to learn more about our undergraduate courses and programs in Gilman Atrium on April 1st from 5 to 7pm. MLL offers Spanish, Portuguese, German, […]
Perpetually Toward? Revisiting Kant on Global Peace
International Symposium at Johns Hopkins University. A full description of the concept of the symposium is available here.
Daniel Carranza, “The Problem of Morphological Comparison: Goethe, Wittgenstein, Lévi-Strauss”
The Problem of Morphological Comparison: Goethe, Wittgenstein, Lévi-Strauss A lecture by Daniel Carranza (Harvard)