Small Forms: Aesthetics—Media—Modernity

Institute for German Cultural Studies

The Institute for German Cultural Studies is a research-oriented initiative designed both to recognize extraordinary cross-disciplinary strengths in the study of German culture at Cornell University and to foster cutting-edge scholarly exchange pertaining to the interdisciplinary study of German culture from the medieval era to the present.

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Institute for German Cultural Studies Fall 2024 Colloquium Series

Fall 2024 Colloquium Series

Peter Loewen named dean of Arts and Sciences

Coming from the University of Toronto, where he is the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Loewen begins his five-year appointment as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Aug. 1.

Institute for German Cultural Studies Spring 2024 Colloquium Series

Spring 2024 Colloquium Series

Rehearsing the Revolution: On Damani Partridge’s “Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin”

On November 2, Professor Damani Partridge, an eminent scholar in Anthropology, Africana Studies, and German Studies at the University of Michigan and Vice President and President Elect of the German Studies Association, gave a lecture on “Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitize...