Our Department
Events and Activities
We offer a rich and diverse range of events, encompassing a wide array of formats, including conferences, workshops, guest lectures, film screenings, as well as informal social gatherings and language tables, also known as “Stammtische.”
Specializations
We are an active intellectual community of scholars specializing in various aspects of German and German-Jewish literature and culture. Our research places a strong emphasis on cultural theory. Our distinguished academic staff includes international faculty, such as the DAAD Walter Benjamin Chair in German-Jewish Literature and Culture, also a German language instructor from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
Projects
In the coming year, we would organize monthly seminars where advanced students and teachers would present their current research.
In a monthly informal meeting with students and teachers, we shall talk about the interconnection between narration and literature. We would take our point of departure from personal life experiences of emigration, immigration, travelling flight and exile "between west and east" as the model for writing and thinking literature.