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 of Hannah Arendt’s account of “beginnings”. Vega shows how Arendt’s reflections on “the beginning” attempt to avoid theories of pure spontaneity, great-event history, and historical […]
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. This event is sponsored by the Undergraduate German Program and the Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought.
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) Modified: Colonial Limits and Plant Life Relations in Transgenics Research (Nicole Labruto, Program in Medicine, Science, and the Humanities; Anthropology) Organized and Moderated by: Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei, Modern Languages […]
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 Heredity. Bucknell University Press, 2014 and Fact and Fiction: Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain (ed.). University of Toronto Press, 2016. Other publications include articles […]
"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
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, French, Italian, Hebrew & Yiddish courses. Pizza and beverages provided.
International Symposium at Johns Hopkins University. A full description of the concept of the symposium is available here.
The Problem of Morphological Comparison: Goethe, Wittgenstein, Lévi-Strauss A lecture by Daniel Carranza (Harvard)
Humanities in the Village, discussion of Imagination: A Very Short Introduction with Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei and Jane Bennett A lecture by Daniel Carranza (Harvard)
Come and join the German Club for coffee, games, and conversation.
Come and join the German Club for coffee, games, and conversation.
Gilman 479 Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020) is the third adaptation of Alfred Döblin's influential 1929 novel of the same name. This iteration transposes the story to modern day Berlin with an undocumented immigrant from West Africa in the central role. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section at the […]