At our third and final German colloquium in Fall semester 2019 Joscha Jelitzki (UConn) will give a lecture about “Genealogie der Sittlichkeit in Thomas Manns ‘Das Gesetz’ (1943)”. The presentation will be held in German, refreshments will be served. Thursday, October 31st, 1:00-2:00pm, Oak Hall 236. Contact: Florian.Kastner@uconn.edu or Juntao.Li@uconn.edu

Thorsten Wilhelm from Yale University will be the next speaker in our second German colloquium in Fall 2019 and presents on the topic “Project-based Learning for Cultural Understanding”. Friday, October 18th, 2019, 1:00-2:00pm (Oak Hall 236). Refreshments will be served. Contact: Florian.Kastner@uconn.edu or Juntao.Li@uconn.edu

November 7, 2019 12:30 pm: Konover Auditorium Shelter from the Holocaust: German Jewish Refugees in Iran and India Dr. Atina Grossmann This lecture examines the intensely ambivalent and paradoxical experiences, sensibilities, and emotions of bourgeois Jews who found refuge in the “Orient” of India and Iran after 1933. Organized by the Center for Judaic Studies https://judaicstudies.uconn.edu/2019/10/08/grossmann/ —— 2:00-3:30pm: […]