On January 23, Dr. Kerry Wallach delivered the second lecture in the Leo Baeck Institue London for the Study of German-Jewish History and Culture's 2019-2020 series, Acting Jewish: Between Identity and Attire.

Ten years after the end of WWII, and after years of Nazi rule that dictated art production, an international exhibition of contemporary art was organized in Kassel, Germany.

Walter Benjamin's attempt to flee Nazi occupied France in Fall 1940 failed; he could not offer the proper visa documents after entering Spain.

At the annual meeting at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, five new members were elected to the Board of Directors of the American Friends of Marbach, the American group of supporters of the German Literary Archives at Marbach (DLA).

Àgnes Heller, a prolific political philosopher and former student of Georg Lukàcs, has been elected to receive the prominent 2019 Nietzsche Prize.

Art historian Sarah Hadda has curated an exhibition of Rudi Weissenstein's photographs for the distinguished gallery and auction house Villa Grisebach in Berlin.

In Fall 2017, Isabella Cuan, a BIBB major and Art History minor, took Liliane Weissberg’s class on “Berlin: History, Politics, Culture.” Isabella wrote a superb term paper on Third Reich photographic journalism.

Liliane Weissberg is a 2019-20 recipient of the American Academy’s Berlin Prize. These awards are offered annually to a small group of American artists, writers, scholars, journalists, and politicians who will spend one semester at the Arnhold villa at the Wannsee where they will live and do rese

Dr. Sonia Gollance (Penn PhD '17) has accepted a multi-year Visiting Assistant Professor position in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the Ohio State University, where she will be revitalizing the Yiddish program.

On March 28 and 29, the Department of Germanic Langauges and Literatures hosted the Kittler and the Human(ities) conference centered on the theme of the shifting legacy of Friedrich Kittler's thought and German Media Theory today.