The 2024 issue of German MLN is now available. The issue, edited by Christiane Frey, Rochelle Tobias and David Martyn, is entitled Sensus non-communis and features articles by Michel Chaouli, […]
2024 German Modern Language Notes
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Graduate Diversity Ambassador application open
The Krieger School of Arts & Sciences (KSAS) Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is pleased to announce another cycle of the KSAS Graduate Diversity Ambassador program, where KSAS […]
German PhD candidates Gray and Harmon receive Fulbright Grants
PhD candidates Glen Gray and Brad Harmon each received a Fulbright Grant to Germany for the 2024–2025 academic year. Based at the University of Hamburg, Glen will be working on […]
JHU professors/students participate in conference “Sensus Non-Communis: Gegenwarten im Widerstreit”
Held on June 13-14 at the Universität Bonn, Professors Frey and Tobias and graduate students in German Luke Beller and Glen Gray participated in the international conference “Sensus Non-Communis: Gegenwarten […]
Prof. Gosetti-Ferencei discusses new book “Imagination: A Very Short Introduction” at Humanities in the Village
Professor Gosetti-Ferenci discussed her recent book Imagination: A Very Short Introduction in conversation with Jane Bennett on April 29 at Bird in Hand Cafe. The event was part of the […]
Environmental Humanities Research Initiative Spring Panels
Organized and moderated by Prof. Gosetti-Ferencei, the department of MLL and the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at JHU sponsored two Spring panels for the Environmental Humanities Research Initiative. A graduate-student […]
Daniel Carranza delivers lecture “The Problem of Morphological Comparison: Goethe, Wittgenstein, Lévi-Strauss”
Invited the graduate students in German, Daniel Carranza (Harvard) presented a lecture on April 18 titled “The Problem of Morphological Comparison: Goethe, Wittgenstein, and Lévi-Strauss.”
International Symposium “Perpetually Toward? Revisiting Kant on Global Peace” hosted at JHU
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” […]
Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky delivers lecture on Benjamin’s concept of cosmic experience and philosophy of technology
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.
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, 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 […]
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); […]
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 […]
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 of Hannah […]
Ökopoetiken: Literarische Umwelten
A digital transatlantic workshop | JHU and RTWH Aachen | 22.–23. September 2023
PhD student Brad Harmon selected for research fellowship
Brad Harmon has been awarded a year-long fellowship from the American Scandinavian Foundation. Brad will spend the 2023/2024 academic year in Stockholm at Södertörn University, where he will conduct research […]
German Grad Students Embark on Ambitious Summer Plans
With funding from the Max Kade Center and other resources, German graduate students will head this summer to the: Congratulations to the students for proposing such fascinating projects!
Graduate Student Almut Slizyk Delivers Three Papers Based on Archival Work
As part of the research colloquium at the German Literature Archive in Marbach, Almut Slizyk gave a talk on the Jewish poet and philosopher Margarete Susman. Her talk drew on […]
Graduate Student Käthe Erichsen Delivers a Talk on Exilic Writing
Congratulations to graduate student Käthe Erichsen for delivering a paper at the Women in Exile conference hosted by the International Feuchtwanger Society and the University of Southern California. The title […]
Graduate Student Luke Beller Delivers Paper at Deutscher Germanistenverband
Congratulations to graduate student Luke Beller who delivered a paper at this year’s meeting of the Deutscher Germanistenverband at the University of Paderborn. His contribution was entitled “Zwischen naivem Naturwesen und […]
Congratulations to recent graduates of the German Program
Congratulations to recent graduates Elisa Santucci, Maya Nitis, and Jason Yonover, who are now working at Johns Hopkins University, Morgan State University, and Princeton University. After successfully defending his dissertation […]
The Conductor (2021)
Professor Bernadette Wegenstein‘s feature-length documentary The Conductor (2021) opened this winter to critical acclaim in a half-dozen North American cities, from New York to San Francisco. Wegenstein’s glowing portrait of […]
Maya Nitis receives Gender and Racial Justice Scholars Research Award
Congratulations to Maya Nitis on receiving a Gender and Racial Justice Scholars Research Award from JHU’s Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commemoration. For her project, “Decolonizing Knowledge in Pandemic Times,” mentored by […]
Almut Slizyk receives David Detjen Research Grant
Congratulations to Almut Slizyk on receiving the David Detjen Research Grant to conduct research at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv. Almut will work on two projects at the archive. She will study […]
April Symposiums and Lectures
The German program is hosting two virtual events in early April, which are open to the public. Visit the events section to get details and RSVP information about Sand Formations: […]
Two new books edited by Professor Rochelle Tobias
Rochelle Tobias has two books just out or forthcoming: Phenomenology to the Letter: Husserl and Literature (De Gruyter) Hölderlin’s Philosophy of Nature (Edinburgh University Press)
Congratulations to Jason Yonover
Congratulations to Jason Yonover, winner of the 2020 David Baumgardt Memorial Fellowship of the American Philosophical Association.
Building Bridges for Future Partnerships
STRENGTHENING GERMAN PROGRAMS IN THE MD/DC AREA One-Day Symposium Saturday, September 28, 2019 8:30am – 4:00pm Hosted at Johns Hopkins University Click here to REGISTER (20.00) We are excited to […]
Deborah McGee Mifflin elected as President of AATG
Congratulations to German Language Program Director Deborah McGee Mifflin who has been elected President of the Maryland / DC Metro chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG). […]
“Sex Changes with Kleist” by Professor Katrin Pahl
Professor Pahl’s new book Sex Changes with Kleist analyzes how the dramatist and poet Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811) responded to a change in the conception of sex and gender that occurred between 1790 and 1810.
Congratulations to Professor Samuel Spinner!
Congratulations to Professor Samuel Spinner who was awarded a fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. Professor Spinner will […]
Congratulations to Professor Katrin Pahl!
Congratulations to Professor Katrin Pahl who was awarded a senior fellowship at the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM) in Weimar for the summer semester 2019.