Events

Clueso: Rap on the stage and in the classroom

Workshop with students and German teachers focusing on rap in the German language classroom. This event was co-sponsored by the Goethe Institute.

Professors, teachers and teaching assistants of German were invited to this professional development workshop.

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.

The German Romantic Novalis called Baruch Spinoza a "God-intoxicated man." Next to Rousseau, there is hardly a more influential thinker for late 18th-century German intellectual life.

The German Studies Forum aims to

Conversation Analysis Research Workshop

“Formulations” in spoken interaction propose an understanding of some state of affairs — of what another person has been telling or doing. This workshop examines a broad range of such sequences in which an understanding is formulated in conversation and then accepted or rejected. Such sequences allow us to trace how shared meaning and understanding is constructed in everyday interaction.

A row of books in the Dana Porter Library

Choose Your Own German Book!

This semester, instead of the Centre stipulating the book, we're leaving it up to you! So, read whatever German-related book you'd like, be it written by a German/Swiss/Austria author in whatever language you can easily read, or a novel that really interests you that's been translated into

Novalis drafted The Novices at Sais between 1798 and 1799, with plans to reconceive it as a “truly symbolic novel of nature” in 1800, but left the work incomplete on his death.

Cover art for original Winnetou publication, from 1893. We're going back to the Wild West, German style, with Karl May's Winnetou I (1893) and the Brubacher House.

We'll begin the evening with a short tour of the historic, Mennonite home and then sit down for our book discussion in its stone-walled basement, next to a cozy fire.

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Clueso (Concert and Workshop)

Clueso: Rap on the stage and in the classroom

Workshop: Rap im Deutschunterricht

Teachers' Workshop

Nature & Education circa 1800

Seminar: Spinoza, Goethe, Deleuze: All is Leaf (or Rhizome--take your pick)

German Studies Forum

Negotiating Understanding: Responding to Formulations in Interaction

Conversation Analysis Research Workshop

Reading Group: Book Swap & Reading Discussion

Choose Your Own German Book!

Novalis' "Lehrlinge zu Sais"

Reading Group Fall 2017: Winnetou, by Karl May