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Deadline for “From Page to Stage” extended

Monday, December 3rd, 2012

The deadline for submissions for the graduate student conference “From Page to Stage: Perspectives on Theatricality in Historical, Philosophical, and Literary Discourses” has been extended to January 7, 2013.


History in the Making – Photo Galleries

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

Photographs of this year’s Graduate Student Conference “History in the Making: Auditory, Visual, and Textual Representations of Germany’s Past” can be found here. Thank you to all the participants for making it an inspiring and productive event.


New GGSA Officers

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

As of March 13, 2012, the new officers of the GGSA are Mike Hiegemann (President), Christine Richter-Nilsson (Vice President), Lisa Beesley (Vice President), Oliver Knabe (Treasurer), and Clara Fisher (Secretary).


Upcoming Lunchtime Seminar

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

Tuesday, March 27 12:00-1:15 p.m. Furman 123 Ingo Kieslich “Stranger than Fiction: Hannah Arendt reads Franz Kafka”


History in the Making – Program (Update)

Friday, March 9th, 2012

March 17, 2012 4:10 p.m. Keynote Lecture “Theogony as Ethnogeny: Race and Religion in Friedrich Schelling’s Philosophy of Mythology” George S. Williamson (Department of History at the Florida State University, Tallahassee) 6:00 p.m. Welcome and Keynote Reception, Buttrick Hall Atrium March 18, 2012 9.00 a.m. Breakfast, Buttrick Hall Atrium 9:30 a.m. Opening Remarks 9:45-11:15 a.m….


Upcoming Lunchtime Seminar

Saturday, February 25th, 2012

Tuesday, February 28 12:30-1:45 p.m. Furman 123 Kathryn McEwen “Making Hands: The Handiworks of Hannah Höch and Sigmund Freud”


Virginia Scott lecture: February 25, 2011

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

Friday, February 25 4:10 p.m. FM 209 Virigina Scott (Vanderbilt University) “Double Talk. Deconstructing Monolingualism in Classroom Second Language Learning” reception to follow


Paola Gambarota lecture: February 18, 2011

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

Friday, February 18 4:10 p.m. Buttrick 201 Paola Gambarota (Rutgers University) Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies in 2011 Author of Surrealismo in Germania (Udine: Campanotto Editore, 1997) “Irresistible Signs: Language and National Character, Revisited.” sponsored by the Max Kade Center for European and German…