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Diefenbaker Lecture Series: Literary Studies in the 21st Century. Poster.

By discussing the issues and problems that are currently central to their research in German Studies, these leading scholars will explore how literary studies can fulfill the expectations of an academic discipline and connect with wider society.

Be it the depictions of castles and seductive sirens along the Rhine River in the poetry and prose of Brentano, Eichendorff, and Heine, the paintings of artists like Runge and Friedrich, or the fairy tales told by the Brothers Grimm, the German Romantics created landscapes whose images continue to resonate in the popular imagination.

Medieval woman riding on top of medieval man

Aristotle, esteemed as a great philosopher in the medieval world, also eked out a second existence there as a figure of fun and mockery.

This is the annual conference of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies. Keynote Speakers are Prof. Dr. Beate Henn-Memmesheimer from Universität Mannheim and German filmmaker and artist Marc Bauder. You can read more about it over at their website.

"Julya Rabinowich’s Transnational Poetics: Remembering Border Crossings in Narrative and Theater"

A lecture by Christina Guenther, Bowling Green State University

Poster for the event, including speaker details.

Isis was the veiled goddess of nature who inspired German writers from Schiller to Novalis. Jean Paul Richter, too, fantasized about Isis: once one tried to lift the veil on nature, he said, the veil would continually extend itself.

Nikola von Merveldt researches children's literature and its historical context. Her studies focus on the history of the book as a material object and social medium that isn’t only the intellectual product of the author, but also the commercial, technological, and cultural product of an epoch.

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Diefenbaker Lecture Series: Literary Studies in the 21st Century

Diefenbaker Lecture Series: Literary Studies in the 21st Century

Diefenbaker Lecture Series: Literary Studies in the 21st Century

Diefenbaker Lecture Series: Literary Studies in the 21st Century

Recreating Nature: German Romantic Landscapes as Cultural Ecology

Medieval Misogyny? Aristotle and Phyllis in Medieval German Culture

Visual, Cultural and Literary Codes: Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies' Annual Conference

Julya Rabinowich's Transnational Poetics

Nature & Education circa 1800

Remediating Nature: Presenting the Natural World in 18th Century Children's Literature