It was a close call, with most titles tied except for one. So our reading selection for the spring meeting will be...
Dörte Hansen: Altes Land / This House is Mine, trans. Anne Stokes
Hear Loyola University professor Alice Weinreb explain how food and hunger are used as instruments of power.
THE NATURE OF EXPERIMENT: INTELLIGENCE, LIFE, AND THE HUMAN
Mary Shelley’s famous invocation of human experimentation gone wrong is 200 years old, but remains as vibrant an analysis of the human implication of scientific insight as it did when it was first published; perhaps more so in an age on the verge of breakthroughs in both AI and bioengineering. This conference will approach the intersections of intelligence, life, and the human from a unique perspective, through the concept and practice of the “experiment,” both today and in the past.
The first UW History Department's Speaker Series event of 2019 is here! Come hear Dr. Megan Koreman discuss her book "The Escape Line: how the Ordinary Heroes of Dutch-Paris Resisted the Nazi occupation of Western Europe"
WCGS welcomes one and all to a talk by UW History professor Dr. Gary Bruce about his new book Through the Lion Gate: A History of the Berlin Zoo.
The winner of the inaugural WCGS Book Prize is Alice Weinreb of Loyola University for her book Modern Hungers: Food and Power in Twentieth-Century Germany, published by Oxford University Press.
CMTS Celebration of Russell Kilbourn's New Book W.G. Sebald's Postsecular Redemption: Catastrophe With Spectator January 15th, 2019
Please note WCGS will be closed for the holidays starting December 21, 2018 and will reopen on January 7, 2019.
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Interviews in the US - January 2019
The Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Toronto is currently soliciting applications to their Graduate Program in Germanic Literature, Culture, and Theory.