Environmental Humanities Research Initiative

Join Environmental Humanities Research Initiative for a Graduate Panel on April 9, 2024 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm in Gilman 108. The panel will be followed by a reception.

Against Joy

The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies and the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures presents Dr. Sunny Yudkoff, Associate Professor of German and Jewish Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Yudkoff will be presenting "Against Joy: Yankev Glatshteyn and the threat of Yiddish FREYD" on April 10, 4-5:30pm, in Gilman 479.

A Roudtable Discussion of Voidopolis

A roundtable discussion of Voidopolis with Charlotte Kent (Art History, Montclair State University), Alexey Yurenuv (International Center of Photography, NYC), and Arielle Saiber (Italian Studies, JHU) on April 10th at 6pm in Maryland Hall 110.

Non-Literary Fiction: Lecture by Esther Gabara

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies are pleased to present Esther Gabara (Duke University) for a talk and conversation about her new book Non-literary Fiction: Art of the Americas under Neoliberalism (University of Chicago Press, 2022). With Non-literary Fiction, Gabara examines how contemporary art produced across […]

Talk by Prof. Hélène Merlin-Kajman

The Centre Louis Marin and the program in French are pleased to host Prof. Hélène Merlin-Kajman of Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3/Institut universitaire de France for a talk in French entitled "Pour un partage transitionnel de la littérature" on Thursday, Sept. 19, at 5:00 p.m. in Gilman Hall 479.

German Film Series: Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020)

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 […]