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The German Graduate Research Seminar

German Graduate Research Seminar

The German Graduate Research Seminars are informal gatherings organised by graduates and open to all.

We meet several times a term and aim to provide a space for relaxed discussion of anything related to German studies. There is no fixed format, but meetings tend to centre on short texts or papers. Proposals for future seminars are welcome, especially from new members.

Programme 2023-24

 

This year, we are delighted to host the following speakers:

 

Alex Mentzel (Cambridge), Triangulating Virtual Scenographies in Franz Kafka’s Der Verschollene and Walter Benjamin’s Schauplatz

Thursday, 26th of October, 5.30pm, Alison Richard Building S2

Lucia Affaticati (Sussex), Time for Queer. Post-Internet Music and the Fantasy of Queer Oppositionality

Thursday, 23rd of November, 17.30pm,  Alison Richard Building S3


Contacts

For further information please contact Phyllis Koehler (pk517@cam.ac.uk, Michaelmas Term) or Jonny Ball (jrdb3@cam.ac.uk, Lent and Easter Terms)

 


 

Programme 2022-23

 

Lotte Hondebrink (Cambridge): “The Patriarchal Roots of Feminist Selfhood”, 24 October 2022

Syamala Roberts (Cambridge): “Conceptions of Hearing in German Modernist Writing”, 22 November 2022

 Anna Oswald (Cambridge): “Nature in Kant: An Epistemological Evolution”, 25 May 2023

 Robbie Spiers (Cambridge): “A Method from Madness: Carl Jung and Karl Jaspers on the Treatment of Mental Illness”, 25 May 2023

Dr. Julia Ng (Goldsmiths): “Daoism and Capitalism. Modern German Jewish Philosophy’s Encounter with China”, 1 June 2023

The German Graduate Research Seminar is an informal gathering organised by graduates and open to all. We meet several times a term and aim to provide a space for relaxed discussion of anything related to German studies. There is no fixed format, but meetings tend to centre on short texts or papers. Proposals for future seminars are welcome, especially from new members.


 

 

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