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April 6 : 4:30 PM, Wieboldt 206. Sunny Yudkoff, Lecturer in Yiddish Language in the Germanics Department, will be giving her presentation “His Own Magic Mountain: David Vogel and the Hebrew Sanatorium.” April 20: 4:30 PM, Wieboldt 206. Mirjam Berg, … Continue reading →

January 26th. 4:30 PM , Wieboldt 206. Phillip Henry, graduate student in the History Department, will be giving his paper “World War I and the Grenzen of Freudian Thought.” * February 11th, 4:30 PM Foster 103. Joe Grim Feinberg, visiting … Continue reading →

October 20th: General Introduction to Central Europe November 3   4:30 PM, Wieboldt 206 Mikolaj Golubiewski, Visiting Student from the Berlin-Schlegel School will be giving his talk ““American Far West and Polish Eastern Borderland: A Hybrid Home of Czesław Miłosz.” November … Continue reading →

Tuesday, April 8, 4:30 Cobb 103: Reading Session: Maria Todorova, “Hierarchies of Eastern Europe: East-Central Europe Versus the Balkans” Tuesday, April 22, 4:30, Cobb 103: Ilana Miller, “The Prague Spring, the Polish Anti-Zionist Campaign, and the Crucible of Israel Activism: Discourse … Continue reading →

Tuesday, January 14, 4:30 PM, Cobb 119: Esther Peters, “Before Writing” Tuesday, February 11, Cobb 119, 4:30 PM: Alison Davis, “National Hermaphroditism in Bohemia and Moravia, 1939-1945” Monday, February 17, Pick 319, 5PM (Co-sponsored with Early Modern Workshop): Howard Louthan, University … Continue reading →

Our next paper will be Michaela Appletova’s “Germans into Swahilis: Showbiz Imperialism and Czech Nationalism at the 1891 Prague Jubilee Exhibition.”  The paper can be found by clicking here.  For the password, please contact dpratt@uchicago.edu  

Tuesday, October 8, 4:30, Cobb 119–Daniel Pratt, University of Chicago–The Substrates of Culture: Central Europe as Intellectual Space Tuesday, October 15, 4:30 in the Franke Institute–Mircea Cartarescu, University of Bucharest–A Reading from his Newly Translated Novel, Blinding, with Delia Ungureanu as … Continue reading →