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Jocelyn Holland (Caltech) talking to attendees at the Institute for German Cultural Studies colloquium reception.

IGCS Colloquium: Jocelyn Holland

Jocelyn Holland’s paper is part of a larger project whose aim is to explore how material techniques and craftmanship, and the qualities of physical materials, shape language and thought. The paper focuses on metaphors derived from techniques of placement and joining. While common examples such as “dovetailing” do a good job of illustrating how technological…

Annetta Alexandridis

Classical art historian Annetta Alexandridis dies at 58

Annetta Alexandridis, classical archaeologist and art historian in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences, died April 13. Known for her hands-on approach, she was associate director of the Harvard-Cornell Exploration of Ancient Sardis, Türkiye and co-curated the Cornell Plaster Cast Collection.

IGCS Colloquium speaker Jenny Willner having a discussion with attendees.

IGCS Colloquium: Jenny Willner

Willner’s paper examines the biological speculation that Sigmund Freud and his Hungarian disciple Sándor Ferenczi jointly developed between 1913 and 1924 and referred to as “bioanalysis.” During the years surrounding the First World War, they inscribed trauma, regression, death, neurosis, hysteria, Nachträglichkeit, and repetition compulsion into a broad spectrum of biological concepts that had been…

Katrin Lehnen (Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen)

IGCS Colloquium: Katrin Lehnen

Katrin Lehnen's paper conceptualizes writing as a cultural and social practice and examines how writing practices are transformed in postdigital contexts. Drawing on praxeological theory, writing is understood as a socially typified form of action embedded in cultural norms, material settings, and implicit knowledge. Using an example from early literacy acquisition, the paper illustrates how…

IGCS Colloquium Hannes Kerber

IGCS Colloquium: Hannes Kerber

The paper is part of a larger project that examines Erwin Piscator’s three stagings of Nathan der Weise (1942, 1944, 1952) to argue that the Enlightenment drama, in Piscator’s hands, functioned as a form of political action rather than mere artistic representation. By tracing how the same play was redeployed across wartime America and postwar…

Vanessa Gubbins

IGCS Colloquium: Vanessa Gubbins

“Rilke’s Re-positions (Umstellungen)” is the fourth chapter of my book, Democracy’s Medium: Poems Critique the Rule of the People in Peru and Germany. This book is an exercise in democratic conversation that I carry out with the reader, with the aims of revisiting the concept of democracy from the basis of our conversation. My book’s…

Andrew Vielkind (Screen Studies, Ithaca College) speaking at the Institute for German Studies Colloquium.

IGCS Colloquium: Andrew Vielkind

This essay examines experimental cinema practices undertaken in postwar Austria, particularly between the late 1950s and early 1960s. The “metrical” films made by Marc Adrian, and Peter Kubelka have been often theorized as being in dialogue with the Viennese modernist music tradition. Building upon existing scholarship, I underscore the impact of the short-lived Wiener Gruppe…

Peter Loewen

Peter Loewen named dean of Arts and Sciences

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.

A.D White House garden

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, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin” at Cornell. The event was…

Esther Dischereit presenting in front of audience
Photo credit: Nicolau Spadoni

IGCS Event: Esther Dischereit

On September 19, the Institute for German Cultural German Studies, together with the Department of German Studies and the Jewish Studies Program at Cornell had the pleasure of hosting the renowned German-Jewish author and public intellectual Esther Dischereit for a reading of texts from her latest project, the exhibition Wer war Fritz Kittel?

Dr. Jenny Korber
Photo credit: Anna Reynders

IGCS Colloquium: Dr. Jenny Körber

On September 15, 2023, Dr. Jenny Körber (University of Hamburg) presented her paper “Irdische und himmlische Verhältnisse. Ordnungen der Genealogie und Heraldik” in the IGCS Fall Colloquium Series. Dr. Körber, currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hamburg, combines literary criticism and art history in her research. Her work centers on Jesuits, early modern…

Cornell Clock Tower

IGCS Colloquium: Ulrike Vedder

Ulrike Vedder: “Auswandern - Heimkehren - Verschellen: Liminales Erzählen und die Kunst des Handelns in der Auswandererliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts”

New Directions in German Studies A Symposium by the Graduate Students of German Studies

Symposium: New Directions in German Studies

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…

Mississippi River in Watercolor
Provided by Oswald Egger

Reading by Oswald Egger

Date: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 Time: 4:30PM Location: A.D. White House, Guerlac Room

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