Penn Prof Simon Richter and Carl Niekerk (U of Illinois) co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Dutch Literature. The issue focuses on Margins and Contact Zones: 500 Years of Dutch-German Cultural Interaction.

Sonia Gollance (PhD Penn, 2017) has won the Coalition for Women in German Award for Best Article for “‘Spaß mit der schönen Jüdin’: Mixed Space and Dancing in Karl Emil Franzo’s Judith Trachtenberg,” which appeared in Austrian Studies.

Just as in the past years, students from GRMN 104 and GRMN 107 met with German volunteers from Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste (

Andreas Kilcher (ETH Zürich) and Liliane Weissberg have edited an anthology, Nachträglich, grundlegend: Der Kommentar als Denkform in der jüdischen Moderne von Hermann Cohen bis Jacques Derrida (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag).

In a post for the Fulbright Student Program Blog entitled "All the World’s a Stage: Theater as Community Engagement," doctoral candidate Didem Uca reflects on how the experience of writing and performing in an intercultural theater project during her time as a Fulbright Fellow in Berlin impacted

Liliane Weissberg has been awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship for her new book project, provisionally entitled "In Circulation: Modern Literature, Philosophy, Art, and the Medium of the Postcard.

Professor Emeritus Frank Trommler's September 2017 talk at the 50th anniversary of the Wisconsin Workshop, titled "Back to the Future: Tradition and Innovation in German Studies," recently appeard in the

Liliane Weissberg has published a book on the musical practice in the homes of Berlin court Jews, Münzen, Hände, Noten, Finger: Berliner Hofjuden und die Erfindung einer deutschen Musikkultur.

Simon Richter is member of a team of Dutch, Indonesian and American landscape architects, engineers, ecologists, and social and climate activists, led by Matthijs Bouw, Rockefeller Urban Resilience Fellow at Penn Design and director of ONE Architecture in Amsterdam and New York.

As part of a public lecture and discussion series organized by the Center for Advanced Studies Munich, Liliane Weissberg and Michael Brenner (LMU Munich) have presented papers, and discussed, the role of writers and philosophers during the 1918 Munich Revolution and its aftermath.