Kathryn Hellerstein's new book: China and Ashkenazic Jewry: Transcultural Encounters
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Inside the Archives
April 11, 2022Inside the Archives
Through a new course created and taught by Liliane Weissberg of the School of Arts and Sciences, graduate students learn the ins and outs of working with an archive, as a scholar and as an archivist. "I felt this would be a good opportunity to invent a new course that is introducing our graduate students not only to work in the archives, but also to questions of what an archive means--historically and theoretically," she says. -
ANN: NCGS Zoom Seminar with Vance Byrd (University of Pennsylvania, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures)
March 31, 2022ANN: NCGS Zoom Seminar with Vance Byrd (University of Pennsylvania, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures): Friday, 8 April 2022
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Understanding Climate Stories
February 3, 2022In the latest episode of Penn Today's "Understand This ..." podcast series, Bethany Wiggin of the School of Arts & Sciences and Jennifer Pinto-Martin of the School of Nursing discuss the My Climate Story project,
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From the archives, a class on different communities of Jews in China
January 19, 2022Teaching a class on the Jews in China, Prof. Kathryn Hellerstein created an opportunity for her first-year seminar students to study archival material from a collection donated to the Penn Libraries by her mentor, Israeli scholar Irene Eber.
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GERMAN LANGUAGE PLACEMENT EXAM
December 15, 2021The mandatory German Placement Exam will be available online from January 6-January 13, 2022.
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How Much of the Netherlands is Below Sea Level?
October 19, 2021With the support of a Penn Undergraduate Mentored Research Program grant, Professor Simon Richter, Becky Lee, Jenesis Cochrane, and Justine Seo created an animated video about the remarkable fact that many Dutch people, including some Dutch agencies, don’t really know.
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To what extent are the concepts of fatherhood and family, as proposed by Sigmund Freud, still valid?
July 29, 2021A few years ago, Liliane Weissberg organized a conference that considered this question here at Penn. The project has developed further, and turned into a book.
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Ian Fleishman Awarded Tenure
July 6, 2021As of July 1st, Ian Fleishman has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. He continues to serve as Graduate Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures and as a member of the core faculty of Cinema & Media Studies.
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Liliane Weissberg Presents Inaugural Lisa and Heinrich Arnhold Lecture in the Arts, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
June 22, 2021On July 5, Liliane Weissberg will present the Lisa and Heinrich Arnhold Lecture at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (per zoom). This is the first event of an annual cooperation between Dresden and the American Academy in Berlin.