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"Show-and-tell" Poster Presentations in the German Course: Sustainability and German Environmental Imagination

In the Winter course German 44.08: Sustainability and German Environmental Imagination, students presented thei
Filmmaker and Kade Professor Ines Johnson-Spain's Film at the HOP on April 9

Discussion follows with director Ines Johnson-Spain and Leslie Center postdoctoral fellow Jeannette Oholi, moderated by Yuliya Komska. Free and unticketed, co-sponsored by the Department of German Studies, the Office of the Dean for International and Interdisciplinary Studies, and the Kade Foundation.
The International Comparative Literature Association Recognizes Jeannette Oholi's Book with an Award

Jeannette Oholi receives the International Comparative Literature Association's ECARE First Book Subvention Prize for her pathbreaking first book.
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Translating Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, February 24-25

Veronika Fuechtner gathers an interdisciplinary group of readers to workshop Susan Bernofsky's new translation of Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain.
Screening of The Teachers' Lounge + Q&A with Director Ilker Çatak

This Academy Award nominated film follows teacher Carla Nowak as she decides to get involved when one of her students is suspected of theft.
Reclaiming Melancholia as a Transformative Force

In their new book, George Edmondson and Klaus Mladek make the case for melancholia as a vital form of social critique and political renewal.
Students Find an Internship to Work with Refugees in Germany

"Embracing independence and the unknown can lead to a great, unique experience," says Grace McGinley of having navigated Halle, in Germany's East, on her own.
Meryem Deniz wins the 2024 Goethe Society of North America Essay Prize

The award honors the best essay on Goethe, his times, and/or contemporary figures, written by a North American scholar or GSNA member.
My Illegal Life: Film Screening and Discussion Tuesday, November 19, 5:00 pm in Filene Auditorium

In My Illegal Life (Germany, 2024), writer Esther Dischereit, Hella's second-born daughter, follows the traces of her mother's and half-sister's experiences hiding in the Berlin Underground in 1942.
Notes from the German LSA+/FSP Program Fall 2024

As part of the five-day stay in Vienna, the Dartmouth LSA+/FSP group went on a guided tour through "das Rote Wien" (the Red Vienna), a series of impressive government-funded communal housing projects that were built in the 1920s and 1930s under the government of the Social Democrats.

Recent Publications

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The Fontane Workshop: Manufacturing Realism in the Industrial Age of Print.

Petra S. McGillen

New Directions in German Studies; 26. New York; London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence

Irene Kacandes

De Gruyter Verlag, 2022
Sovereignty in Ruins: A Politics of Crisis

Klaus Mladek, George Edmondson (eds.)

Duke University Press, 2017.
Toni Erdmann

Gerd Gemünden

Camden House, 2021

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Top Stories

"Show-and-tell" Poster Presentations in the German Course: Sustainability and German Environmental Imagination

Filmmaker and Kade Professor Ines Johnson-Spain's Film at the HOP on April 9

The International Comparative Literature Association Recognizes Jeannette Oholi's Book with an Award

Interdisciplinary Workshop on Translating Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, February 24-25

Screening of The Teachers' Lounge + Q&A with Director Ilker Çatak

Reclaiming Melancholia as a Transformative Force

Students Find an Internship to Work with Refugees in Germany

Meryem Deniz wins the 2024 Goethe Society of North America Essay Prize

My Illegal Life: Film Screening and Discussion Tuesday, November 19, 5:00 pm in Filene Auditorium

Notes from the German LSA+/FSP Program Fall 2024

Recent Publications

The Fontane Workshop: Manufacturing Realism in the Industrial Age of Print.

On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence

Sovereignty in Ruins: A Politics of Crisis

Toni Erdmann

Study Abroad

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