Event

The Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures is pleased to invite you to a day-long colloquium on Elective Affinities: Reading Benjamin Reading Kafka on Saturday, December 5th beginning at 9 am. Please register here to receive the link to the Zoom webinar. 

9 to 11 am: Introductory Remarks & First PanelAnnie PfeiferAssistant Professor of Germanic Languages, Columbia UniversityMichael LevineProfessor of German Language & Literature, Rutgers UniversityIan Fleishman (moderator)Assistant Professor of German and Cinema & Media Studies and Graduate Chair of Germanic Languages & Literatures, University of Pennsylvania12 to 2 pm: Second Panel & Closing RemarksRochelle TobiasProfessor and Director of the German Subdivision of the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and Co-Director of the Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought, Johns Hopkins UniversityDominik ZechnerAssistant Professor of German Language & Literature, Rutgers UniversityLiliane Weissberg (moderator)Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in the School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

In cooperation with the Wolf Humanities Center, the Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Seminar Series, the Program in Comparative Literature & Theory and the University Research Foundation.