Join our Symposium “Perpetually Toward? Revisiting Kant on Global Peace” at Johns Hopkins University –– April 4–6, 2024. The symposium will offer the opportunity to discuss Kant’s “Toward Perpetual Peace” […]
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Spinner Awarded NEH Fellowship
Samuel Spinner Received NEH Fellowship for his Book Project Samuel Spinner, Assistant Professor, Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Chair in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, […]
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Christiane Frey presents lecture and workshop on Kant at Brown University
Prof. Frey will present the lecture “Cosmos, Climate, Covenant: Making Peace with Kant” and a lead a workshop-discussion of Kant’s “Zum ewigen Frieden” at Brown University on 4-5 March, 2024.
Portuguese Program:
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Portuguese Program Newsletter Volume 7
Please enjoy the Johns Hopkins University’s Portuguese Program Spring 2023 newsletter. The newsletter includes student stories, program highlights, and useful information from the last school year.
German Program:
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Max Kade Center 2024 Summer Travel Grants – Deadline April 1
The German Program, with the support of the Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought, is pleased to announce 10 Travel Grants in the amount of $1,500 to support summer […]
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Christine Lehleiter, “Shape Shifters: Transformation & Natural Form in Goethe’s Narrative Prose” (2/28)
Christine Lehleiter, Associate Professor of German at the University of Toronto, focuses on 18th– and 19th-century German literary and scientific cultures, and her books include Romanticism, Origins, and the History of […]
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Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Award
The Dean’s Teaching Fellowship provides graduate students an opportunity to grow as educators and scholars by allowing them to propose, design, and offer an undergraduate seminar course. Silvia Raimondi, a […]
Italian Program:
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Dante Society of America’s Undergraduate Essay Prize
We would like to congratulate Holly Nelson (’23), who has won the 2023 Dante Society of America’s “Dante Prize” for her essay “Absolving Matelda: Engaging with Ecofeminism in Dante’s Purgatorio.” […]
German Program:
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Environmental Humanities Research Initiative Autumn Panel
December 5 at 5:30 pm until 7:30 pm “Visualizing Human and Ecological Loss in Latin America” (Gisela Heffes, Modern Languages and Literatures); “Beeing and Time: Toward a Literary Entomology” (Christiane Frey, Modern Languages and Literatures); […]
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Call for 2024 MLN French issue contributions
The 2024 French issue of MLN invites original contributions, in English or in French, to a special issue entitled “Passage to the Nineteenth Century” edited by Daniel Desormeaux in collaboration […]