
IGCS Colloquium: Andrew Vielkind
Andrew Vielkind: "The đŸđąđđĄđąđđĄđđâđđđđđ of Postwar Experimental Cinema" Friday, October 3, 2025
Andrew Vielkind: "The đŸđąđđĄđąđđĄđđâđđđđđ of Postwar Experimental Cinema" Friday, October 3, 2025
Amparo Necker: "Peat and the People: Emergent Bodies in Pina Bausche's đżđ đđđđđ đđą đđđđđĄđđđđ " Friday, September 12, 2025
The Institute for German Cultural Studies is pleased to announce its 2025 call for submissions for The Peter Uwe Hohendahl Graduate Essay Prize in Critical Theory.
Fall 2025 Colloquium Series
Spring 2025 Colloquium Series
Fall 2024 Colloquium Series
Coming from the University of Toronto, where he was the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Loewen began his five-year appointment as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Aug. 1.
Spring 2024 Colloquium Series
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 âBlackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlinâ at Cornell.
Esther Dischereit: Wer war Fritz Kittel?
Dr. Jenny Körber: "Irdischeund himmlische VerhÀltnisse: Ordnungen der Genealogie und Heraldik"
Ulrike Vedder: âAuswandern - Heimkehren - Verschellen: Liminales ErzĂ€hlen und die Kunst des Handelns in der Auswandererliteratur des 19. Jahrhundertsâ
Fall 2023 Colloquium Series
The goal of this symposium is to provide students from across cohorts an opportunity to present their research, answer questions, and receive feedback on their work. It draws on the expertise of a variety of disciplines such as Romance studies, comparative literature, medieval studies, art history, visual and media studies, cultural studies, intellectual history and philosophy, gender studies, Jewish studies, and more.
Spring 2023 Colloquium Series
Reading by Oswald Egger
Small Forms: AestheticsâMediaâModernity (IGCS Conference, Friday, Sept. 9 - Sunday, Sept. 11)
Fall 2022 Colloquium Series September 2: Colloquium, Michael KĂ€mper-van den Boogaart (Humboldt University Berlin) October 6 (Thursday): Colloquium, Christian Metz (RWTH Aachen University) October 21: Colloquium, Juan-Jacques Aupiais (Cornell University) November 4: Colloquium, Reâee Hagay (Cornell University) December 2: Colloquium, Tom Eyers (Duquesne University)
On Cornellâs eighth Giving Day, held March 16, 15,905 alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends from more than 80 countries made gifts totaling a record-breaking $12,268,629.
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All Colloquium meetings, if not indicated otherwise, will take place at A. D. White House, Room 201 at 2:30.
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The program connects undergraduates in A&S with opportunities to work side by side on research with Cornell faculty from across the College.
Professor Patrizia McBride won the 2021 Max Kade prize for best article in The German Quarterly.
The Nexus Scholars program will leverage the student-to-faculty ratio and the vibrant research enterprise in A&S to expand opportunities for students, while also enhancing the culture of collaborative scholarship at Cornell.
After earning an undergraduate degree from New York University, David Dunham, doctoral student in Germanic studies from Springfield, Virginia, chose to pursue further study at Cornell due to the strength of the Germanic studies field and the universityâs location in Ithaca.
The final meeting of the Institute for German Cultural Studies Colloquium for this academic year took place on May 8th with a discussion of works in progress by Cornell German Studiesâ own Emir Yigit and Jacy Tackett. The former employed a philosophy of the mind framework, drawing upon the work of Immanuel Kant, as well as a number of other German...
German Studies Graduate Student Conference: "Representations of Race and Ethnicity in German Modernity" (March 6-7, 2020)This conference brought together scholars from numerous disciplines with an interest in critical studies of the concept of race as it has contributed to understandings of the modern subject in the German canon and beyond,...
On February 7th, Professor Erica Weitzman (Northwestern University) joined our colloquium series with a paper on Franz Kafkaâs Das SchloĂ, which forms part of her forthcoming book, currently entitled At the Limit of the Obscene: German Realism and the Discourse of Matter. The book explores representations of matter and materiality in German-...
The College of Arts & Sciences is gearing up for Giving Day on Thursday, March 12 and we hope you'll join in the fun!
At the IGCS colloquium on January 24th, Cornell PhD candidate Matthias MĂŒller began by questioning the traditional assumption that history is written by the victors through an engagement with historian Reinhart Koselleckâs (1923-2006) thesis that history âmay be made by the victors but is in fact written by the vanquished.â By investigating...
181 Goldwin Smith Hall, Fridays @ 2:30pmJANUARY 24Matthias MĂŒller (German, Cornell University)The Loserâs Edge: Writing from the Vantage Point of the VanquishedFEBRUARY 7Erica Weitzman (German, Northwestern University)Franz Kafka and the Residues of RealismMARCH 13Tom Eyers (Philosophy & English, Duquesne University)Romantic...
On November 22nd Professor Inka MĂŒlder-Bach (Munich/Princeton) presented the Colloquium Series with a paper focusing on questions surrounding the aesthetic, political, and social stakes of âproseâ as both a broad, complex literary medium and as a metaphor underlying certain conceptions of modernity around 1800. MĂŒlder-Bach began by returning to...
On November 11th, Dr. Jens Schröter (University of Bonn) joined our colloquium series with a paper entitled âMoney and Media Theory.â As the title suggests, Professor Schröterâs research brings together theories of money and media, investigating the central question of whether media theory can contribute something to the discussion of money that...
On November 5th, Professor Peter Filkins (Bard College at Simonâs Rock) joined us for an insightful lecture on the life and work of H.G. Adler (1910-1988), a survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz who recorded his experiences in both scholarly and literary writing. Despite the extent of Adlerâs work, which includes modernist novels, poetry,...
On October 18th, Professor Patchen Markell (Government, Cornell University) joined our Fall Colloquium Series with a paper entitled âThe Mob, the People and the Political: Rereading The Origins of Totalitarianism.â In the essay Markell investigates Arendtâs use of the term âmobâ in Origins with specific attention to her treatment of European...
Marc Halberstadtâs film begins as an attempt to defamiliarize the question of land ownership in the United States through an analogy with the violent seizure of Jewish property in Germany during the 1930âs. Because Halberstadtâs family lost their home in Nazi Germany before fleeing to the US and settling on Mohawk tribal lands, Halberstadt...
This semesterâs Institute for German Cultural Studies (IGCS) colloquium series opened Friday, September 6th with a discussion of a paper by Mark-Georg Dehrmann (Humboldt University, Berlin) entitled âDimensions of the Modern Epic â the Example of Phantasmatic Orality.â Taking as its point of departure Hegelâs claim that the epic was dead by the...
Re-imagining the Discipline: German Studies, the Humanities, and the UniversityDay 1, Panel 1: âGerman Studies, the Humanities, and the University,â with B. Venkat Mani (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Leslie Morris (University of Minnesota)The conferenceâs first two presenters were concerned with âhyphenated culturesâ in the changing...
181 Goldwin Smith Hall, Fridays @ 2:30pm *except November 11SEPTEMBER 6Mark-Georg Dehrmann (Modern German Literature, Humboldt University, Berlin)Dimensions of the Modern Epic. The Example of Phantasmatic OralityOCTOBER 18Patchen Markell (Government, Cornell University)Rereading Hannah Arendtâs The Origins of TotalitarianismMONDAY, NOVEMBER...
March 22, 2019On Friday, March 22nd, the German Studies Graduate Student Conference kicked off its first panel by focusing on the philosophical problems involved in using pronouns. The panel featured papers on Hegel by Emir Yigit (Cornell, German), on Kant and Descartes by SĂžren Larsen (Cornell, German), and on contemporary analytical approaches...
Masterclass On the afternoon of February 28th, the German writer-in-residence Rebekka Kricheldorf gave a masterclass focusing on her new play Testosterone, which was concurrently having its English-translation premiĂšre at the Cherry Arts Space in Ithaca. Conducted in German, the masterclass took on the form of a seminar, which allowed for...
On March 6th, Professor Donatella di Cesare (Universitaâ La Sapienza, Rome) gave a talk in the A.D. White House entitled âHeidegger and the Jews,â whose title referenced not only di Cesareâs own book on Heideggerâs Black Notebooks but also Jean-François Lyotardâs important book on Heidegger and âthe Jewsâ from 1988. Di Cesareâs talk centered...
On Friday, May 3rd Prof. Barbara Nagel (Princeton University) closed the IGCSâs Spring Colloquium Series with a paper titled âGoetheâs Stalker Snails.â The paper was part of a larger project that brings together rhetoric, affect theory, and gender and literature, building on Nagelâs previous work about the literalization of language in Der Skandal...
On Friday, April 12, Uwe Wirth (University of GieĂen) gave a colloquium presentation on the performative gestures of quotations deployed in the political campaign of the German party âDie Parteiâ (The Party). This political organization was founded in 2004 by editors of the satirical magazine Titanic and has been led by its former editor-in-chief...
On March 8, 2019, Prof. Eva Horn (University of Vienna) joined our Spring Colloquium series with a paper entitled: âAir: For a Cultural History of Climate.â The essay built on work published in Fall 2018 in the journal Grey Room (âAir as Mediumâ). Starting from her landmark monograph on Zukunft als Katastrosphe (Fischer, 2014), Horn sought to...
On November 30, 2018, Professor Samuel Frederick (Penn State University), a graduate of Cornellâs graduate program in German Studies, brought this yearâs colloquium series to a close with his talk on âCollecting. A Poetics,â which drew on his current book-project tentatively titled âThe Redemption of Things: Collecting as a Poetics in German...
On January 25th, 2019, Jette Gindner (Cornell University) opened IGCSâs Spring Colloquium Series with a paper titled: âRethinking 1970s Political Modernism: Critical Reflexivity and the Feminization of Labor in Tatjana Turanskyjâs Eine Flexible Frau/A flexible Woman (2010).â By using the film by Turanskyj as a case study, Gindner analyzed job...
Expertise and Authority Conference: Day OneSeptember 21, 2018On September 21, 2018, Professor Peter Gilgen (Cornell University) opened this yearâs collaborative network conference: âLiterature, Knowledge, Media,â organized around the theme of expertise and authority, with a talk entitled "Information and the Authority of Poetry.â The...