On the future of communication: Looking at AI through the Eyes of German Classics
Roberto Simanowski, Freie Universität Berlin
Gershom Scholem Today: On the Political Relevance of a German- Jewish Israeli Intellectual
Noam Zadoff, Department of Contemporary History, Universität Innsbruck
Sexual Violence Between Idyll and Legend: Gottfried Keller’s «Meretlein»
Professor Frauke Berndt, University of Zurich
What is Enlightenment? - An Update
Distinguished Max Kade Visiting Professor Wolfram Eilenberger
Chain of Infections: Narratives of the Epidemic since the 18th Century
Professor Andreas Bernard, Lüneburg
Diffractive World-Making: Theatre & Science Beyond the Capitalocene
Indiana University Bloomington, Cook Center, November 10-12, 2022
Conference Organizers: Teresa Kovacs & Kevin Rittberger
13th Biennial Graduate Student Conference
Making Meaning Across Media: Orality and Literacy in Germanic Languages, March 19-20, 2021
New Directions in German Studies series: Affective Assemblies: Aesthetics and Politics
Through recent events such as the Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement, assembly has emerged as central political form.
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Online via Zoom at 2 p.m. EST / 8 p.m. CET
New Directions in German Studies series: The Forensic Turn in Holocaust and Refugee Studies, (Im)proper Burial
The conversation aims to think the significance of the shift to forensic approaches in the study of memory in the wake of genocide and mass violence.
Friday, March 19, 2021
Online via Zoom at 2 p.m. EST / 8 p.m. CET
Memories of Veteran and Holocaust Survivor Karl Pfeifer - Part II
In Conversation with Günther Jikeli and Students of Indiana University:
Part 2: Experiencing Antisemitism in Austria and Hungary
Special guest: Deborah Hartmann, House of the Wannsee Conference
Tuesday March 9, 2021
@ 11.30am ET / 5.30pm CET
Connecting online hate speech to offline events
Gunther Jikeli, Erna B. Rosenfeld Professor of the Borns Jewish Studies Program and the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and associate professor of Germanic Studies, discussed his study of online hate speech and how it relates to actions and events in the offline world in an article for the IU Research Impact website following the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Re-Envisioning German Studies
Challenging assumptions and academic routines, the current pandemic has opened an interval to question and take stock of a discipline whose internal coherence resembles a loose amalgamation of different elements.Online via Zoom at 2 p.m. EST / 8 p.m. CET.
Susan Neiman event on Zoom, Fall 2020
Bloomington is postponed until Fall 2021, please join us for a virtual event on Wed., Sept 30 from noon to 1:30pm.
Lane Sorensen Named 2020 AATG Indiana Rising Star
The Indiana chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) selects Germanic Studies IU Lecturer and Outreach Coordinator Lane Sorensen as the 2020 Rising Star based on his “brilliant and inspiring” teaching.
German Studies Lecture Series: Verena Mermer
Come out for a bilingual reading by Austrian writer and Max Kade Writer-in- Residence at Bowling Green State University, Verena Mermer. Friday, March 6, 2020 5:30 PM in GA 4067
German Studies Lecture Series: Andreas Gailus
The New Directions in German Studies Lecture Series presents Professor Andreas Gailus, Friday, February 14th at 4:00 PM in GISB 1060.
Hannah Arendt and the Three Antinomies of Liberal Political Theology
Brownbag talk with Professor Michael Weinman, Bard College Berlin, IU Comparative Literature.
Fall 2019 Newsletter
Read the latest Germanic Studies newsletter.
Germanic Studies Senior Wins IMP Award
Mary Gilbert, graduating Germanic Studies senior (BA ’19) and incoming Germanic Studies graduate student, won a 2019 Individualized Major Program Award for “Outstanding Senior Project.”
2019 German Heritage Weekend
Join us for 2019 German Heritage Weekend on the Indiana University Bloomington campus.
Germanic Studies Graduate Student Conference
Wer bin ich? "Questions of Identity in Germanic Studies"
The College of Arts