New Course: German Comics and Graphic Novels
New Course: GERM 403A/532A – German Comics and Graphic Novels (in translation) W2019 Term 2, MWF, 12-1:00 p.m. Dr. Elizabeth Nijdam In this course we will read a selection of contemporary German-language comics and graphic novels (in translation) to discuss several issues facing Germany today—including the representation of the Holocaust, East German experience, and the […]
Extinction: A CENES Symposium
Apr. 26 – A CENES Symposium on Extinction
Business German
W2019 terms 1 and 2. Business German courses: Learn current terminology and understand important professional processes like job applications, interviews, and more.
New Course: GERM 304 – The Sexual Politics of Weimar Cinema
New Course GERM 304: The Sexual Politics of Weimar Cinema W2019 Term 2, TuTh 11-12:30 Dr. Ervin Malakaj This course explores the political, social, and economic realities that shaped the German “Golden Age” of cinema: the Weimar Era (1918-1933). We will watch some of the most iconic alongside lesser-known, yet impactful films from the period. […]
New Graduate Course: Sex Politics and German Film History
GERM 531A – W2019, term 2. This graduate seminar pursues the cultural history of German cinema from its beginnings to today through the lens of sex, sexuality, sexology, and desire.
Workshop: Cultural Sustaining – Kulturelles Nachhalten
Apr. 15-16 – International Research Collaboration Workshop
Prof. Winthrop-Young delivers keynote at UPenn Kittler conference
Mar. 29 – Prof. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, Head of CENES, keynotes the UPenn “Kittler and the Human(ities) Conference”
Faculty Research Colloquium: Crime, Punishment and Temperature
Apr. 2 – “What Would Raskolnikov Do? Reader Expectation and the Epilogue of Crime and Punishment” by Dr. Katherine Bowers & “People with Qualities: Temperature in German Modernism” by Dr. Alice Christensen
Faculty Research Colloquium: Laughter, Gender, Homophobia, Files
Mar. 28 – “Laughter and the Comic Performance of Gender and Homophobia” (Dr. Caroline Rieger) & “Files and the Evidence of Sexuality: Queerness and the Subversion of the East German State” (Dr. Kyle Frackman)
Ziegler Lecture: “An English Watchmaker in 18th-Century China: Christoph Ransmayr’s Novel Cox, or the Passage of Time”
The Austrian author Christoph Ransmayr depicts 18th-century China in his latest novel Cox, or the Passage of Time (2016).