Germanic Languages and Literatures

Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1515, Prado Museum

News

Erika Kontulainen (Penn, 2020) publishes on Fontane

November 28, 2020

Recent Penn PhD Erika Kontulainen has an article on "Landscape and Memory in Theodor Fontane's Works" in the current volume of Colloquia Germanica, a special issue dedicated to Fontane in celebration of the 200th anniversary of his birth last year.

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German Placement Exam

November 24, 2020

Please register for the exam at https://forms.gle/TD723oDhFyzCKPS59 starting January 6, 2021. Allow at least 24 hours for your registration to be processed. You will then receive an email invitation from Canvas.

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"From the Ottoman Empire to Auschwitz: Sephardic Jews and the Holocaust" with Devin E. Naar

November 24, 2020

Although usually understood as a "European" event, the Holocaust also resulted in the murder of tens of thousands of Jews born in the Muslim world of the Ottoman Empire (e. g., today's Greece).

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Events

Dec

05

Elective Affinities: Reading Benjamin Reading Kafka

Michael Levine (Rutgers) and Annie Pfeifer (Columbia), in discussion with Ian Fleishman (Penn)

9:00 AM

December 5, 2020 - 9:00am
Dec

05

Elective Affinities: Reading Benjamin Reading Kafka

Rochelle Tobias (Johns Hopkins) and Dominik Zechner (Rutgers), in discussion with Liliane Weissberg (Penn)

12:00 PM

December 5, 2020 - 12:00pm
Dec

07

Penn PhD Colloquium: Where Are They Now?

Ilinca Iuraşcu (Penn PhD, 2008), University of British Columbia

1:00 PM

December 7, 2020 - 1:00pm

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