Past Events

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2024-2025

2023-2024

Lecture: Johannes Lehmann (Bonn)
Im Bann der Gegenwart. Zum Zusammenhang von Öffentlichkeit und Image

Workshop: April 10, 2024
Harnessing ChatGPT for Innovative Language Education
Budimka Uskokovic (organizer)

Panel: April 3, 2024
Becoming an Effective and Inspiring German Instructor 
Special Guest: Adelina Frey - DAAD visiting scholar at the Uni of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Workshop: March 27, 2024
Marcel Foerster - Ohio State
Tuning In: A Workshop on Teaching Effective Listening Skills in Language Education.

Undergraduate German Spelling Bee - March 4, 2024

16th Annual GGSA Conference - February 23-24, 2024
Activating Margins: Destabilizing the Canon from the Periphery
Keynote Address by Mari Jarris (Cornell U)
Marxism's Matriarchal Origins: Primitivism and Queer Kinship in the Age of Scientific Socialism.

Lecture: February 13, 2024
Chantelle Warner - University of Arizona
Towards a human-centered approach to language/culture education

DH Series Webinar & Workshop: February 5 & 7, 2024
Curtis Maughan (U of Arkansas)      
A webinar and workshop about digital humanities practice in German Studies.

Lecture: January 23, 2024
Na’ama Rokem (University of Chicago)
Translation and Solidarity: Arieh Ludwig Strauss between Jerusalem and Asia in the early 1950s 

Lecture: October 24, 2023
Randall Halle (U Pittsburgh) 
Germany in Eurafrika: Seeing the Shift from Colonialism to Developmentalism in Foreign Policy and Film Practice

Workshop: October 20, 2023
DEI Teaching Workshop: Part 2

Workshop: September 29, 2023
DEI Teaching Workshop: Part 1

2022-2023

Lecture: April 13, 2023
Vance Byrd (University of Pennsylvania)
Pantheon Books and Illustrated German Tales

Lecture: March 3, 2023
Aleksandra Prica (UNC) 
Attention and Speculation in Athanasius Kircher's Scrutinium physico medicum

BTAA German Chairs & LP Coordinators Meeting: February 24-25, 2023
Sessions included: “Challenges We Are Facing” / Collaboration with STEM departments /
Recent changes to language requirements and their effect on enrollments /
CHATgpt: A threat or assistance? 

Discussion: February 16, 2023
Matthew H. Birkhold in conversation with Erin Lin for the release of his newest work,
"Chasing Icebergs: How Frozen Freshwater Can Save the Planet"

Lecture: January 25, 2023
Hiram Maxim (Emory)
Developing multiliteracies in the linguistic landscape

2022-23 Carolyn Engel Luebeck Lecture: November 4, 2022 
Johannes von Moltke (Uni of Michigan)
Encounters: How Cinema Looks at Refugees

Discussion: November 3, 2022
Johannes von Moltke (Uni of Michigan)
German film theoreticians and media anthropology

'A Grimm Halloween' storytelling: October 31, 2022
Faculty, Graduate Students, and Undergrads

Lecture: October 17, 2022
Christian Metz (RWTH Aachen)
Editing Flora. Dataism in the Technocene / Dataismus im Technozän

Forum: October 8, 2022
Ohio German Studies Workshop, an annual forum for Ohio German Studies and an opportunity for colleagues across the state to become better acquainted with each other, with the research that is being conducted in German Studies, and with the issues that we all face as German scholars in higher education institutions in the twenty-first century.

2021-2022

2021-22 Carolyn Engel Luebeck Lecture: April 11, 2022
Susan Bernofsky (Columbia)
Agency and Syntax: Retranslating Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain

Workshop: April 11, 2022
Susan Bernofsky (Columbia)
An Introduction to Literary Translation

Arts & Humanities Inaugural Lecture: April 5, 2022
Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm (Ohio State)
Grammar at work: The interplay between language and social interaction

Lecture: March 21, 2022
Elke Dubbels (Universität Bonn)
Politik der Gerüchte: Dramen von Gryphius und Kleist im öffentlichkeitsgeschichtlichen Kontext

BTAA German Chairs & LP Coordinators Meeting: February 25, 2022
Sessions included:
  Developments in Language Teaching in the Era of COVID
  Administrating during the Pandemic 
  Discussion and The post-COVID Universe

14th Annual GGSA Conference  - February 12, 2022
A Survey into the Past, Present and Future of German-speaking Cultures
Keynote Address by Prof. Ruth von Bernuth (UNC-Chapel Hill)
http://org.osu.edu/ggsa/

Lecture: Jan 11, 2022
Cynthia Porter (Denison U)
"Female Anger, Irony, and Identity in SXTN's 'Ich bin schwarz'"

Lecture: Dec 13, 2021  
Nicholas Saul (University of Durham)
"On Difficulty: Botho Strauß, Two Cultures, Literature and Evolutionism"

Lecture: Nov 15, 2021  
Bjorn Koehnlein (Ohio State)
“Genesis and typology of tonal oppositions in Dutch and German dialects”

Symposium: October 22, 2021
Chad Wellmon (Virginia) and Paul Reitter (Ohio State) in conversation with Ying Zhang (Ohio State). 
“Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age”

Discussion: August 18, 2021
Robert C. Holub (Ohio State) on The Voices of Excellence podcast hosted by David Staley. 

2020-2021

Lecture: April 19, 2021
Elizabeth McNeill (University of Michigan)
The Animal Soul: Between Naturphilosophie and Naturwissenschaft

Talk: April 14, 2021
Conversation with Author Judy Batalion and Eminent Scholar Robert C. Holub
The Light of Days

Lecture: April 13, 2021
Lill-Ann Körber (University of Aarhus)
A Conversation about Scandinavian Colonialism

Workshop: April 10, 2021 GGSA (Germanic Graduate Students Association) 
Session 1: Dr. Robert Beachy (Yonsei University, Seoul)
Workshop on the unseen, unheard, and willful omissions

Lecture: March 29, 2021
CJ Jones (Notre Dame)
Regional Networks, Competing Authorities, and 'Event Planning' in a Medieval Convent

BTAA German Chairs & Coordinators Meeting: February 27, 2021
   Session 1: The impact of the pandemic on our programs 
(language instruction, undergraduate and graduate programs)
   Presenters: 
   Senta Goertler (Michigan State University)
   Julia Goetze  (Penn State University)
   Susanne Rott  (U of Illinois-Chicago)
   Susanne Even (Indiana University Bloomington)
   Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm  (Ohio State)

   Session 2: Post-pandemic plans
   Presenters: 
   Julie Koser  (University of Maryland)
   Mark L. Louden  (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
   Leslie C. Morris  (University of Minnesota)
   Daniel Leonhard Purdy  (Penn State University)
   Ben Robinson  (Indiana University Bloomington)

Lecture: February 15, 2021
Budimka Uskokovic (Ohio State)
Belgrade Becomes Paradise for Foreign Entrepreneurs

Lecture: January 21, 2021
Tanvi Solanki (Yonsei University, Seoul)
Listening to Difference: Race, Culture, and Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment

Panel Discussion: December 17, 2020
The Scholar's Vocation - with Cynthia Porter (Oxford U) and Damion Searls, author of The Inkblots (Crown, 2018)

Lecture: November 4, 2020
Helen Fehervary (Ohio State)
Peter Lorre and Bertolt Brecht: a working relationship and friendship beyond Hollywood

Forum: October 24, 2020 
"Teaching in Times of Multiple Crises"
Ohio German Studies Workshop, an annual forum for Ohio German Studies and an opportunity for colleagues across the state to become better acquainted with each other, with the research that is being conducted in German Studies, and with the issues that we all face as German scholars in higher education institutions in the twenty-first century.
 

2019-2020

Lecture: February 12, 2020
Sarah Pourciau (Duke University)
The Empty Canvas: Daniel Kehlmann on the Origins of Modernity

12th Annual GGSA Conference  - January 24-25, 2020
Becoming Visible
Keynote Address by Prof. Ervin Malakaj (UBC-Vancouver)
http://org.osu.edu/ggsa/

Lecture: January 16, 2020
Mary Hennessey (U Mich)
Mascha Kaléko’s Typewriter Poetics

Lecture: October 24, 2019
Jakob Norberg (Duke University)
The Philologist King: The Brothers Grimm and the German Nation

Forum: September 28, 2019
Ohio German Studies Workshop, an annual forum for Ohio German Studies and an opportunity for colleagues across the state to become better acquainted with each other, with the research that is being conducted in German Studies, and with the issues that we all face as German scholars in higher education institutions in the twenty-first century.

Talk: September 26, 2019
Sonia Gollance (Ohio State)
Learn about Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies 
An evening with the OSU Polyglot Club (an Honors & Scholars event)

Workshop: September 18, 2019
Meeting Others Through Music
Visiting Burkinabé artists Ezé Wendtoin and Aristike Nikiema discussed their project 'Seg-taaba // Meeting Others Through Music.‘
Part of a workshop series that connected students from Columbus, Ohio with students in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Lecture: September 17, 2019
Sarah Eldridge (UT Knoxville)
Society, Interrupted (again): German Imitations of Robinson Crusoe

Discussion: September 16, 2019
Ezé Wendtoin (musician and foreign language educator) and Aristide Nikiema (APECA president)
Experiences and Findings of Being Burkinabé in Germany, and of Being German in Burkina Faso

Lecture: September 9, 2019
Peter Filkins (Bard College)
Writing History, Writing Biography: H.G. Adler's Many Worlds

2018-2019

2019 Carolyn Engel Luebeck Lecture: April 8, 2019
David E. Wellbery (U of Chicago)
"'Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön.' On the Image as Dramatic Motivation."

Lecture: March 28, 2019
Jaimey Fisher (UC Davis)
Distance, Scale, Territory: Genre and its Affective Incongruences in Hirschbiegel’s Der Untergang (2003)

Lecture: February 25, 2019
Bethany Wiggin (UPenn)
Pedagogy of the Climate Changed: Environmental Humanities and the Right to Research

11th Annual GGSA Conference
Environmentangled: A Germanic Perspective on Ecological Coexistence
February 22-23, 2019

Lecture: February 11, 2019
Laura Neuhaus (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
The Pragmatics of Hashtagging. On the use conditions of a multifunctional linguistic device

Workshop: February 7, 2019
Laura Neuhaus (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
Pragmatics of Hashtags

German Career Day 2019
On February 4th, Germanic Languages and Literatures hosted a career day for high school students and undergraduates at Ohio State. Representatives of the German business community, universities, and foundations provided information on study and career opportunities with German and in Germany.

Faculty Talk: January 29, 2019
May Mergenthaler (Ohio State)
Solar-Powered Poetry: Goethe’s „May Festival“ in the Age of Ecocriticism

Lecture: November 6, 2018
Danielle Christmas (UNC)
Hitler’s Germany as the New Plantation: History According to William Styron

Dissertation Colloquium: October 31, 2018
Sarah Traylor presented a selection from her dissertation: Journey with an End: The Temporal and Spatial Imaginary of the Modern Pilgrimage in Literature

Graduate School Experience in German: October 26-27, 2018
The two-day workshop, funded by the DAAD, was hosted at The Ohio State University this autumn. Juniors and seniors from across the United States were nominated by their home institution faculty. They explored the rich diversity of perspectives on the field of German Studies through interdisciplinary sessions on literature, film, culture, linguistics, and pedagogy led by Ohio State faculty.

Forum: October 20, 2018
Ohio German Studies Workshop, an annual forum for Ohio German Studies and an opportunity for colleagues across the state to become better acquainted with each other, with the research that is being conducted in German Studies, and with the issues that we all face as German scholars in higher education institutions in the twenty-first century. 

Lecture: September 12, 2018
Sebastian Rödl (Universität Leipzig)
Nature and The Good

2017-2018

11th Annual Midwest Symposium in German Studies: April 13-14, 2018

Talk: March 26, 2018
Christian Meierhofer (Bonn)
Das Verlachen der Gegenwart. Zeitordnungen in der Komödie der frühen Aufklärung
[The Comedy of the Early Enlightenment and its Temporal Order]

Workshop: March 23, 2018
Christian Meierhofer (Bonn)
Workshop is in preparation for the upcoming talk, "The Comedy of the Early Enlightenment and its Temporal Order"

Lecture: March 19, 2018
Ezé Wendtoin (musician and foreign language educator)
Music in Foreign Language Education: Learning German through Music in Ougadougou, Burkina Faso

2nd Migration Studies Symposium
Walls and Passages
March 2, 2018

10th Annual GGSA Conference
The Gatekeepers of Memory
February 23-24, 2018
http://org.osu.edu/ggsa/

2017 Carolyn Engel Luebeck Lecture: November 6, 2017
Dagmar Herzog (CUNY) Distinguished Professor of History and Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar
On Aggression: Psychoanalysis as Moral Politics in Post-Nazi Germany

Lecture: October 23, 2017
Shelley Frisch (Princeton)
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Translator: A Kafka Biography Marathon

Graduate School Experience in German: October 20-21, 2017
The two-day workshop, funded by the DAAD, was hosted at The Ohio State University this autumn. Juniors and seniors from across the United States were nominated by their home institution faculty. They explored the rich diversity of perspectives on the field of German Studies through interdisciplinary sessions on literature, film, culture, linguistics, and pedagogy led by Ohio State faculty.

Forum: October 14, 2017
Ohio German Studies Workshop, an annual forum for Ohio German Studies and an opportunity for colleagues across the state to become better acquainted with each other, with the research that is being conducted in German Studies, and with the issues that we all face as German scholars in higher education institutions in the twenty-first century.

Second Language Research Forum 2017
Growing Connections in Second Language Research

German Career Day
On October 4th, the Goethe-Institut Chicago sponsored a career day for high school students and undergraduates at Ohio State. Representatives of the German business community, universities, and foundations provided information on study and career opportunities with German and in Germany.

2016-2017

2017 Carolyn Engel Luebeck Lecture: April 7, 2017
Ian Buruma (Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College)
Lessons Learned, or Not: Germany, Japan, and the Age of Trump

April 7-8, 2017
10th Annual Midwest Symposium in German Studies

9th Annual GGSA Conference
At the Fringes of Humanity: The Cyborg and the Undead
March 24-25, 2017

Lecture: March 20, 2017
Elisabeth Krimmer (UC-Davis)
Cropped Vision: German Nurses, the Second World War, and the Holocaust

Lecture: January 20, 2017
Robert Pippin (Chicago)
Hegel on Life as a Logical Category

Lecture: January 19, 2017
Robert Pippin (Chicago)
Hegel on the Political Significance of Collective Self-Deceit

Forum: October 22, 2016
Ohio German Studies Workshop, an annual forum for Ohio German Studies and an opportunity for colleagues across the state to become better acquainted with each other, with the research that is being conducted in German Studies, and with the issues that we all face as German scholars in higher education institutions in the twenty-first century.
 

2015-2016

Lecture: April 7, 2016
David Blackbourn (Vanderbilt)
Nature and Environment in Modern Germany: A Difficult History

Faculty Lecture: April 4, 2016
Katra Byram (Ohio State)
Why remembering mothers changes the landscape of German cultural memory

8th Annual GGSA Conference
Between Utopia and Dystopia: Visions of Germany
April 1-2, 2016 at the Mershon Center

Faculty Lecture: March 23, 2016
Bernhard Malkmus (Ohio State)
What is, and to What End Should We Study the Anthropocene?

2016 Carolyn Engel Luebeck Lecture: February 1, 2016
Timothy Snyder (Yale University)
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning

Lecture: November 30, 2015
William C. Donahue (Notre Dame)
Religion in Realism: Contra Downing

Forum: November 14, 2015
Ohio German Studies Workshop, an annual forum for Ohio German Studies and an opportunity for colleagues across the state to become better acquainted with each other, with the research that is being conducted in German Studies, and with the issues that we all face as German scholars in higher education institutions in the twenty-first century.

Faculty Lecture: October 26, 2015
Paul Reitter (Ohio State)
Nietzsche and Crisis of the Humanities in Wilhelmine Germany

Lecture: October 13, 2015
James E. Young (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
The Arc of Memorial Vernacular: New York's 9/11 Memorial

Lecture: September 17, 2015
Maria Tatar (Harvard University)
The Wolftrap: Into the Woods with Fairy Tales

Multimedia Performance: September 16, 2015
John Matthias (Poet, critic, and novelist)
Automystifistical Plaice: A Ballet Mecanique Spread-Spectrum Ecstasy, with voices

2014-2015

SASS 2015 - Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Conference

First Nations and Indigenous Discourses, Methodologies, and Histories
May 7-9, 2015 at the Ohio Union

Lecture: April 23, 2015
Andrew Zimmerman (Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University)
The American Civil War as an International Revolution: A radical trip down the Mississippi River

2015 Carolyn Engel Luebeck Lecture: March 26, 2015
Mark L. Louden (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Pennsylvania Dutch in the 21st Century

Lecture: March 12, 2015
Sabine Doering (University of Oldenburg, currently Residential Fellow at Notre Dame)
Herausforderungen beim Schreiben einer Hölderlin-Biographie

Lecture: March 3, 2015
Stefan Horlacher (TU-Dresden) Distinguished Max Kade Visiting Professor
What Makes a Man a Man? Masculinity Studies in Germany: A Critical Survey

7th Annual GGSA Conference

Configurations of Human Bodies
Feb 27-28, 2015 at the Ohio Union
 

Inaugural Lecture: February 18, 2015
John Davidson (Ohio State)
Ecological Visions in Post-WWII Germany

Lecture: February 12, 2015
Louis Rose (Otterbein University)
The Role of the Psychoanalyst in Times of Historical Crisis: The Example of Ernst Kris

Inaugural Lecture: January 21, 2015
Paul Reitter (Ohio State)
Bambi's Jewish Roots

Lecture: December 1, 2014

Benjamin Robinson (Indiana University)
Freedom: Simple or Complex?

Forum: October 11, 2014
Ohio German Studies Workshop, an annual forum for Ohio German Studies and an opportunity for colleagues across the state to become better acquainted with each other, with the research that is being conducted in German Studies, and with the issues that we all face as German scholars in higher education institutions in the twenty-first century. 

Reading: October 7, 2014
Ute Kaiser, Independent Actress
Anna Seghers's Das Argonautenschiff

2013-2014

Faculty Lecture: April 17, 2014
Bernhard Malkmus (Ohio State)
welträume: Peter Zumthor's Architecture

Lecture: April 14, 2014
Christian Moser (Bonn University) Distinguished Max Kade Visiting Professor
Barbarism as a Liminal Concept

Workshop: April 3, 2014
The Political Kleist:
Bernd Fischer, Tim Mehigan, David Pan, Christian Moser

Lecture: March 31, 2014
Christian Moser (Bonn University) Distinguished Max Kade Visiting Professor
Ökologien des Gehens

2014 Carolyn Engel Luebeck Lecture: March 27, 2014
Rüdiger Campe (Yale University)
Body and Time. Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain

6th Annual GGSA Conference
Ecologies Reconsidered
Mar 21-22, 2014 at the Ohio Union

Faculty Lecture: February 27, 2014
Robert Holub, Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of German (Ohio State)
Nietzsche's Anti-Semitism

Faculty Lecture: November 7, 2013
Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm (Ohio State)
Kiezdeutsch: A new language variation in Germany

2012-2013

Lecture: April 11, 2013
Dirk von Petersdorff (University of Jena)
Das romantische Konzept einer 'neuen Mythologie'
(Friedrich Schlegel, Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, Heinrich Heine)

Lecture: April 4, 2013
Oliver Simons (Columbia University)
The Epistemology of Metaphors. Literature and Knowledge after Paul de Man

Lecture: March 4, 2013
Wolfgang Bunzel (Freies Deutsches Hochstift, Ffm)
Literarische Denkmalpflege. Bettine von Arnims Arbeit am kulturellen Gedächtnis

5th Annual GGSA Conference
Beyond Borders – Transnationalism & Transculturalism in the Arts 
Feb 22-23, 2013 at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies
 

Lecture: February 18, 2013
Gaby Pailer (U of British Columbia)
Knight, Templar, and Jewess: A National Myth (Scott's Ivanhoe and Lewald's Jenny)

Lecture: November 5, 2012
Ute Brandes (Amherst College)
The Writer Anna Seghers's Difficult Journey - from Exile in Mexico City to Postwar Berlin

2012 Carolyn Engel Luebeck Lecture: September 10, 2012
Peter Fenves (Northwestern University)
Aura, Error, and Entanglement around 1935 (Benjamin, Heidegger, and Schrödinger)