Podcasts about germanic studies

How do narratives shape the human experience? Guest: Dr. Fritz Breithaupt, Provost Professor of Cognitive Science and Germanic Studies at Indiana University and Author of “The Narrative Brain: The Story Our Neurons Tell” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tariffs 101: how they work and why they matter Guest: Moshe Lander, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Concordia University How did an industrial chemical end up in US fentanyl but not Canada's? Guest: Kim Bolan, Crime Reporter for Postmedia How do narratives shape the human experience? Guest: Dr. Fritz Breithaupt, Provost Professor of Cognitive Science and Germanic Studies at Indiana University and Author of “The Narrative Brain: The Story Our Neurons Tell” What are Canadians doing with American properties and vacation homes? Guest: Laurie Lavine, Arizona Real Estate Expert Where should you visit in BC this Spring Break? Guest: Maya Lange, Vice President of Global Marketing for Destination BC How is the federal government protecting Canada's economy? Guest: Anita Anand, Canada's Minister of Transportation and Internal Trade Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The surprising success of Russian athletes at the 2014 Sochi Olympics gave Vladimir Putin the political capital to invade Crimea, and it was all built on an elaborate state-sponsored doping program. Russia received little more than a slap on the wrist by the International Olympic Committee, so President Putin was emboldened to attack Ukraine in 2022. This time the IOC had to act, and the majority of Russian athletes have been banned from the 2024 Paris Games.    John Hoberman, Olympic Historian and Professor of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin, joins Ray Suarez to share why the IOC has a history of enabling authoritarian leaders, and why it has blood on its hands. Guest: John Hoberman, Olympic Historian and Professor of Germanic Studies, University of Texas, Austin Host: Ray Suarez, host, On Shifting Ground If you appreciate this episode and want to support the work we do, please consider making a donation to Commonwealth Club World Affairs. We cannot do this work without your help. Thank you.

Will Stovall (Ph.D. Yale University, 2018; M.F.A. Bard College, 2025) is an artist based in Washington, DC. He completed a dissertation on the institutional imagination of German philosopher Jürgen Habermas. His paintings were the subject of a solo exhibition at Ulrik and have been featured as cover illustrations for Oxford German Studies and Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. In addition to his interest in visuality in the German philosophical tradition, he has presented research and organized exhibitions on the art history of Washington, DC, and is the editor of Of the Land: The Art and Poetry of Lou Stovall (Georgetown University Press, 2022). Eden and Inferno, 2020, oil on canvas, walnut frame, 15 x 10 in. (38.1 x 25.4 cm.). Courtesy of Ulrik, New York; Photo: Stephen Faught Faces and Goalie, 2021, oil on paper pinned on linen, 6 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. (17.1 x 14 cm.) Courtesy of Ulrik, New York; Photo: Stephen Faught Watchers, 2021, oil on linen, 4 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (11.4 x 13.3 cm.) Courtesy of Ulrik, New York; Photo: Stephen Faught Watchers [verso], 2021, oil on linen, 4 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (11.4 x 13.3 cm.) Courtesy of Ulrik, New York; Photo: Stephen Faught

CHRIS' BIO Chris Brummer is Williams Research Professor and Faculty Director of Georgetown's Institute of International Economic Law. He serves on the Board of Directors of Fannie Mae and is the creator of DC Fintech Week, the largest conference in the world at the intersection of fintech, governance and government taking place Nov 6-8 in the nation's capital. Prior to joining Georgetown's faculty with tenure in 2009, Brummer was an assistant professor of law at Vanderbilt Law School. He has also taught at several leading universities as a visiting professor including the universities of Basel, Heidelberg, and the London School of Economics. Professor Brummer recently concluded a three year term as a member of the National Adjudicatory Council of FINRA, an organization empowered by Congress to regulate the securities industry, where his work was praised as making a significant contribution to advancing investor protection. In 2016, Professor Brummer was nominated by President Obama to serve as a Commissioner on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Professor Brummer lectures widely on finance and global governance, as well as on public and private international law, market microstructure and international trade. Mr. Brummer is the author of several books, most recently Fintech Law in a Nutshell (2019).  His current research examines how China's internationalization of its currency is producing novel systemic risks for the global financial system. Chris Brummer earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he graduated with honors, and he holds a Ph.D. in Germanic Studies from the University of Chicago. Before becoming a professor, he practiced law in the New York and London offices of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. In 2011, he joined the Washington offices of the Milken Institute where he is a senior fellow. Subsequently in 2012, he was awarded the C. Boyden Gray Fellowship for Global Finance and Growth at the Atlantic Council. “Silicon Valley makes it, NYC trades it, DC regulates it” EPISODE OUTLINE (0:00) - Intro (0:38) - Bio (01:13) - The early years trajectory to this day (02:43) - International finance law, crypto, blockchain (03:44) - SBF, FTX, blow ups; failure points, fraud, fragility of trust (05:12) - Make, trade, regulate; the intersection of innovation and regulation (05:53) - Social media vs fintech; it's different, issues pop up, guardrails (07:23) - AI and the centers of power; some thoughts on Hollywood, airlines, biotech (11:28) - Risk managing a $4 trillion balance sheet; housing, finance, macros (15:43) - A little about DC Fintech Week; CEO's + regulators locked in a room (16:44) - Outro  CHRIS RELATED LINKS About Chris & Fintech Beat via FiscalNote; Podcast Video Gallery: Milken, EU Parliament, Brookings, etc… Fannie Mae: Board of Directors, Corporate Governance Cryptoassets: Legal, Regulatory and Monetary Perspectives (Book) DC Fintech Week 2023 GENERAL INFO| TOP OF THE GAME: Official website: https://topofthegame-thepod.com/ RSS Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/topofthegame-thepod/feed.xml Hosting service show website: https://topofthegame-thepod.podbean.com/ Javier's LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/javiersaade & Bio: https://tinyurl.com/36ufz6cs  SUPPORT & CONNECT: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/96934564 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551086203755 Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOPOFGAMEpod Subscribe on Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/site/podcatcher/index/blog/vLKLE1SKjf6G Email us: info@topofthegame-thepod.com   THANK YOU FOR LISTENING – AVAILABLE ON ALL MAJOR PLATFORMS

Dr. Hans Boas is the Director of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas-Austin, but until he arrived in Texas in 2001, he had no idea that the distinctive Texas German dialect even existed. Once he learned this fascinating fact, it became his life's work to record as many of the surviving speakers of Texas German as possible before it was too late. Hear how the German immigrants' personal views on slavery conflicted with the Anglos who were already in the Republic of Texas in the 1840s, and how the two world wars doomed Texas German to eventual extinction. Listen as Dr. Boas explains how the merging of many German and Czech cultures near Houston gave America one of its most popular beers, and how a small group of Black Texans attended integrated German-language schools and learned to speak that dialect. https://tgdp.org/

Una storia tutta da raccontare, con molte ombre e poche certezze, quella della produzione, distribuzione e accoglienza di Mädchen in Uniform (1931) in una Germania alle soglie del nazismo e che solo pochi anni dopo avrebbe cucito un bel triangolo nero sui vestiti delle ‘asociali', tra cui appunto le lesbiche, nei campi di concentramento. E a chi potevo fare qualche domanda se non a Paola Guazzo che di questo periodo è una super esperta? Questo è il mio contributo per il mese di aprile dell'LGBT+ History Month 2023. Bibliografia B. Ruby Rich, Chick Flicks. Theories and Memories of the feminist film movement, Duke University Press Books, 1998Valerie Weinstein, The Uniform in the Closet: Mädchen in Uniform in Nazi Germany, in Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 2019 Vol. 55, No. 2 doi.org/10.3138/seminar.55.2.4

A lunchtime 'in conversation' event on March 28th, 2023, featuring Visiting Research Fellow Prof Dariusz Komorowski (University of Wroclaw) in conversation with Prof Jürgen Barkhoff (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, TCD). Dariusz Komorowski is a Professor of German Philology at the University of Wroclaw in Poland. Since 2005 he has been the Head of the Research Centre for German-Swiss Literature and since 2017 the co-originator and editor-in-chief of the online magazine “CH-Studien. Zeitschrift zu Literatur und Kultur aus der Schweiz” which he leads in cooperation with Anna Fattori (Rome) and Jan Jambor (Prešov). From 2012 to 2018 he was the Head of the postgraduate studies in “Cultural Management in the Cooperation of Regions of the European Union" at the University of Wroclaw. Dariusz Komorowski has conducted seminars and given lectures at the universities in Göttingen, Zurich and Maribor and organised several international seminars for master students in cooperation with those universities. Jürgen Barkhoff is Professor of German (1776) and Head of Discipline in Germanic Studies. Before he was Vice-Provost/Chief Academic Officer and Deputy President of Trinity College Dublin. He teaches German literature and German and European Cultural History from 1750 to the present. His main research areas are literature and medicine, science and psychology around 1800, questions of identity in the German-speaking world and contemporary Swiss literature.

Recorded November 10, 2022 Responding to the devastation of the First World War, in 1922 T.S. Eliot wrote of showing us ‘fear in a handful of dust', in his monumental poem, The Waste Land. On the centenary of the poem's first full publication, this Behind the Headlines discussion confronts the ecological devastation of contemporary global landscapes, and ask: does the creative imagining of landscape ruination, destruction, and even apocalypse amount to effective protest? In this panel, we hear from award-winning Irish filmmaker Neasa Hardiman; Cathriona Russell, Assistant Professor, Trinity School of Religion; Yairen Jerez Columbié, Assistant Professor, Trinity School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies; and Conor Brennan, PhD candidate in Trinity's Department of Germanic Studies. They discuss whether the aesthetic depiction of waste lands – in art, film, or literature – prompt us to action, or simply to despair. The postcolonial theorist Dipesh Chakrabarty has written that ‘[T]he crisis of climate change calls on academics to rise above their disciplinary prejudices, for it is a crisis of many dimensions' (The Climate of History in a Planetary Age, 2021). In responding to this call, how can the Arts and Humanities best mobilise their resources to address the climate crisis, and what role does the imagination play in this task?

Assistant Professor Sophie Salvo from the Department of Germanic Studies discusses how her lifelong love of reading and interest in languages led her to the study of sex and gender in German literature. She also explains why she loves having a job where she gets to discover new things and refreshes her sights on world literature as she teaches as a professor at the University of Chicago.

Our guest on this episode of Stanford Engineering's The Future of Everything podcast, Elaine Treharne, is an English professor and an authority on ancient manuscripts. She's using modern tools like machine learning to unlock the secrets hidden inside these aged pages. Despite frequent predictions of the demise of physical writing, she says, books will never go away. Physical writing, she believes, is a perfectly human manifestation of our humanity—an effort by transient beings to create something eternal.All this and more as Treharne and our host Russ Altman discuss the future of books, writing and reading on this episode of The Future of Everything.

Eric Santner joined Coop and Tay for a really lovely discussion on a life in theory. We weave in Eric's latest book, Untying Things Together: Philosophy, Literature, and a Life in Theory and My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity. Schreber is the backdrop for this look at what a body and what theory can do. Eric L. Santner is an American scholar. He is Philip and Ida Romberg Professor in Modern Germanic Studies, and Chair, in the Department of Germanic Studies, at the University of Chicago, where he has been based since 1996.

CitationsReis, Jacob Robert. Oath Formulas in the Poetic Edda. Master of Arts thesis for The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Germanic Studies. May 2017.URL: https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/62667 (Accessed July 23, 2022)Spurr, John. A Profane History of Early Modern Oaths. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 11 (2001): 37–63. Published online by Cambridge University Press.URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0080440101000032 (Accessed July 23, 2022)Tolkien, J. R. R. The Children of Húrin. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Apple Books edition.  (Accessed July 23, 2022)Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit: or There and Back Again. HarperCollins E-Books. ISBN 978-0-00-732260. Apple Books edition. (Accessed July 23, 2022)Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings. HarperCollins e-books. Apple Books edition. (Accessed July 23, 2022)Tolkien, J. R. R. The Silmarillion. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Apple Books edition.  (Accessed July 23, 2022)Tolkien, J. R. R. Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Apple Books edition. (Accessed July 23, 2022)Editing and production by James Pierson

On this week's show, your host, Justin Mog, turns the mics on Kyle Kramer, a local podcaster and Executive Director of the Passionist Earth & Spirit Center over on Newburg Road (http://earthandspiritcenter.org). Kyle is host of the Earth & Spirit podcast (https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1004504654/earth-and-spirit) from Louisville Public Media, and Justin had the delight of being on Kyle's podcast (https://lpm-od.streamguys1.com/earthspirit/20211103115745-EarthSpiritPodcast2021-11-2-ARestoredEarth-QuakerEnvironmentalistJustinMogonOpeningOurHeartstoRightRelationships.mp3), and featured in lovely documentary that Kyle produced with Bernheim called "Grounded: Conversations on Nature and Climate Change" (https://youtu.be/fL_rHzS3rcQ). You can hear the full conversations that went into that documentary at https://lpm-od.streamguys1.com/earthspirit/20220713131117-EarthSpiritPodcast2022-7-15-Grounded.mp3?sc=siteplayer&aw_0_1st.playerid=siteplayer Kyle has served as the Executive Director of the Earth & Spirit Center since 2014. In addition to his administrative responsibilities at the Center, Kyle also teaches courses on Thomas Berry. Prior to coming to the Earth & Spirit Center, Kyle was the director of graduate theology programs and ministry formation for Saint Meinrad, a Benedictine monastery and Roman Catholic school of theology. Kyle and his family spent fifteen years as organic farmers and homesteaders in Spencer County, Indiana. Kyle currently serves as a Catholic Climate Ambassador for the Catholic Climate Covenant and is the author of A Time to Plant: Life Lessons in Work, Prayer, and Dirt (Ave Maria Press, 2010) and Making Room: Soul-Deep Satisfaction Through Simple Living (Franciscan Media, 2021). He is a former columnist and essayist for America magazine and a current columnist for Franciscan Media's St. Anthony Messenger magazine. He speaks across the country on issues of ecology and spirituality. Kyle was a Herman B. Wells Scholar at Indiana University Bloomington and holds a double BA in Religious Studies and Germanic Studies, having spent a year at the Universität Hamburg in Germany. He earned a Master of Divinity, Honors Diploma, from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, Atlanta. Kyle is a trained singer and guitarist and he enjoys rock climbing. Connect with Kyle at https://www.facebook.com/kyle.t.kramer.9 https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-kramer-6b341529/ As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW! Sustainability Now! is hosted by Dr. Justin Mog and airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at http://forwardradio.org The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at http://appalatin.com

Jordi Nadal was born in Barcelona in 1962 and holds a degree in Germanic Studies from the University of Barcelona. In 1998 he took the Stanford Professional Publishing Course and then began his career at Vicens Vives, later moving to Herder (Germany). He has been director of EDHASA, editorial and publications director of Círculo de Lectores, consultant at Random House in New York, general director of corporate development for Spain and America at Grupo Plaza & Janés and assistant director at Ediciones Paidós, as well as Deputy General Manager at Planeta Agostini Profesional and Formación. In 2007 he founded Plataforma Editorial. He is the co-author of Meditating Management… and Life (Plataforma Editorial, 2012) and author of, among other books, Libroterapia (Plataforma Editorial, 2017, 2020) and The Invention of the Bicycle (Plataforma Editorial, 2020).   We met via Zoom to discuss his book Book Therapy: Reading Is Life (Mensch Publishing, 2021). Our conversation covers, among other things: how actions and inactions characterize reading; whether or not reading 'betters' a person; Camus and being kind to others in an unhappy world; why we're motivated to share treasures and enthusiasms with friends, and how reading and writing is so very human.    It's a lively, colourful encounter with a passionate reader, writer, publisher and white-shirt enthusiast. 

Tuesday, 11 May 2021, 4 – 5pm Research presentations by Jason Marrott, Tom Hedley, and Conor Brennan as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. Speaking to the Mirror: A Brief Cultural History of Solitude JASON MARROTT There is an inherently paradoxical aspect to the mediation of solitude, for to express it entails a betrayal of its core principal: the seclusion of the individual from the many. When an audience learns of an experience of solitude, it necessarily ceases to truly be a solitary one. The choice to practice solitude is often taken directly in reaction to society. Indeed, the cognitive framework, barriers, ideologies, and cultural practices of the society a solitary figure purports to have left, still guide his or her experience of solitude and understanding of self. Historically, the discourse of ‘solitude' has tended to posit the categories of ‘solitary' and ‘community' as opposed, but an examination of the cultural history of solitude as an embodied experience (in the West) shows us that the two both reciprocally define, and are defined by one another. The very act of mediating solitude back to a community is an act of bridging the gap, so to speak, between the community and its other. This presentation will briefly present and explore a survey of episodes of Solitude which exemplify this complementary relationship with the ultimate goal of offering an answer to the question: can one ever truly be alone? Jason Marrott is a PhD student in the Department of Germanic Studies at TCD. He has a background in Comparative Literature and Applied Linguistics. Spatial Reckonings: 'Das Raumproblem' in Modern Mathematics & German Modernism TOM HEDLEY Despite the ascent of academic ‘interdisciplinarity', mathematics and the arts continue to be viewed as ‘two cultures' that have divergent origins, influences and aims — an enduring perception that this research seeks to undermine. By examining the the problem of space in the transformative era of the late 19th Century to the early 20th Century, this paper aims to show how modern mathematics can be integrated into the wider modernist epoch. Specifically, this paper will use the historical context and common philosophical as a springboard to propose a more meaningful comparison of the two fields. Tom Hedley is a PhD candidate in the Department of Germanic Studies at TCD and is supervised by Dr Caitríona Leahy. A graduate of German and Mathematics at TCD, Tom completed an MA in German Literature at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena with the support of a DAAD scholarship. His PhD research is funded by the Irish Research Council. Out of the cage, into the echo chamber: Finding forms for the Anthropocene CONOR BRENNAN The talk will consider some of the interactions between ecocritical discourse and literary form, drawing on examples from contemporary writers Christoph Ransmayr, Olga Tokarczuk and Richard Flanagan. As a literary reference point shared by all three writers, the talk will also touch on texts by Franz Kafka. One of the questions this comparison raises is how exactly the contemporary hopes to catch up with itself—to catch itself ‘in the act'. Conor Brennan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Germanic Studies, under the supervision of Dr Caitríona Leahy. He holds a BA in English & German from TCD and an MSt from the University of Oxford, where he was an Ertegun Scholar. His doctoral research is funded by the Irish Research Council and a TCD Foundation Scholarship.

Dr. Ben Robinson, associate professor of Germanic Studies, discusses the emergence of capitalism as the mode of production and questions its continued utility. In considering the driving forces of society under capitalism, the state and the market, Dr. Robinson urges us to consider the power the people wield. It is among the people, the public, that creativity and the possibility of progress lives. We, the people, also have influential power.

Is it true that the popularity of German as a foreign language is decreasing year on year in Australia? If so, what can we do to reverse this trend? We spoke to Dr Tristan Lay from the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Sydney – and were surprised to hear some astonishing facts and figures – most of them much more positive than we thought. - Stimmt die Beobachtung, dass unsere deutsche Muttersprache an den australischen Schulen und Universitäten zunehmend von asiatischen Sprachen verdrängt wird? Was heisst dies für die Zukunft von Deutsch als Fremdsprache in Australien? Dazu ein Gespräch mit Dr. Tristan Lay vom Department of Germanic Studies an der University of Sydney.

Welcome to the new episode of Island Influencers, where my guest is Dr Breesha Maddrell, the Director of Culture Vannin. Breesha works closely with the IOM Government agencies and members of the public to develop strategies and policies for the advancement of Manx culture and heritage. Before Breesha joined Culture Vannin in 2008, she worked for six years as a lecturer at the University of Liverpool’s Centre for Manx Studies. An active musician, singer and composer, Breesha has a BA in Music and Germanic Studies from the University of Sheffield, an MLitt in 20th Century German Literature and Society from the University of St Andrews and a PhD in sociolinguistics and Manx Studies from the University of Liverpool; her thesis looking at aspects of cultural revival in the Isle of Man. She started playing traditional music at school, learning Manx Gaelic on her return to the Island in 1996. Breesha is an authority on key figures in Manx cultural revival such as Sophia Morrison and Mona Douglas. Breesha plays flute and whistles and sings with groups including Caarjyn Cooidjagh and Clash Vooar. She has served on the IOM Arts Council for eight years and has helped organise various festivals and events nationally and internationally. Here’s my conversation with Dr Breesha Maddrell in episode 20 of Island Influencers.

Pascale R. Bos is an Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, Netherlandic Studies, and Comparative Literature at The University of Texas, Austin. Pre-social distancing, Jonathan and Pascal sat down together to talk about the Holocaust and WW2. In part 2, Jonathan and Pascale continue their conversation from last week and go on to discuss how the US became involved in the war, the Berlin Wall, and why it's so important to learn from history!   Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN.    Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com.   Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Catch Jonathan on Queer Eye streaming now on Netflix.

Pascale R. Bos is an Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, Netherlandic Studies, and Comparative Literature at The University of Texas, Austin. Pre-social distancing, Jonathan and Pascal sat down together to talk about the Holocaust and WW2. In part 1 of our first ever 2 part episode, Jonathan and Pascale discuss how the term Holocaust came to be, the alarming statistics reflecting a surprising number of people who’ve never heard of the Holocaust, and examine how Hitler came into power. Tune in to next week’s episode for the conclusion of their incredible conversation!   Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN.    Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com.   Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Catch Jonathan on Queer Eye streaming now on Netflix.

Fritz Breithaupt, director of the IU Experimental Humanities Laboratory, talks about what classical music concerts, Stockholm syndrome, Nietzsche, Schindler's List, and helicopter parents can teach us about the dark sides of empathy.

The walking & photographs of WG Sebald on show in Norwich, American poet Carolyn Forché on the stranger who gave her an insider's view of politics in El Salvador whilst she was in her '20s. Plus an exhibition of money and Jewish history. Laurence Scott presents. Adam Scovell, Philippa Comber and Sean Williams discuss the influence of the German writer WG Sebald who settled in Norfolk. His novel The Rings of Saturn follows a narrator walking in Suffolk, and in part explores links between the county and German history and emigrants. Lines of Sight: W.G. Sebald’s East Anglia An exhibition celebrating the work of the author W.G. Sebald on the 75th anniversary of his birth runs at Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery 10 May 2019 – 5 January 2020 in collaboration with The University of East Anglia Adam Scovell is a film critic and author whose new novella is called Mothlight. Dr Seán Williams is a New Generation Thinker who teaches Germanic Studies at the University of Sheffield Phillippa Comber is the author of Ariadne's Thread – In Memory of W.G. Sebald and In This Trembling Shade, ten poems set to music as a song cycle. BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker Brendan McGeever is at the Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism at Birkbeck University London which was involved in developing the exhibition Jews Money Myth running at the Jewish Museum London until July 7th 2019. Carolyn Forché's Memoir is called What You Have Heard is True. A man who might be a lone wolf, a communist, a CIA operative, a sharpshooter, a revolutionary, a small coffee farmer, drives from El Salvador to invite the 27 year old Forché to visit and learn about his country and she decides to say yes. Producer: Eliane Glaser

What is the significance of Jew? How has this word come to have such varied and charged meanings? Who has (and has not) used it, and why? Cynthia Baker explores these questions and more in her new book Jew, part of the “Key Words in Jewish Studies” series at Rutgers University Press. In a set of absorbing case studies, Baker tracks the history of the word Jew from antiquity to the present. Among other topics, she writes about the debates concerning the terms Jews, Ioudaioi, and Judeans; the uses of yid in Yiddish; the emerging discourses about new Jews; and the genealogics of the twentiethcentury. In the course of her study, Baker exposes a number of problems that pertain to this key word, including the troubled relation between ethnicity and religion, the implications and impasses of translation, and the responsibility of the scholar in the face of the complex and often painful history of Jew. A compelling intervention in Jewish Studies, the book also opens provocative new avenues for research across the humanities and social sciences. For more information about Jew, a collection of fascinating responses can be read in the Marginalia Forum organized by Shaul Magid and Annette Yoshiko Reed for the LA Review of Books. Cynthia M. Baker is Professor of Religious Studies at Bates College, where she is also Chair of the Religious Studies Department. In addition to Jew, she is the author of Rebuilding the House of Israel: Architectures of Gender in Jewish Antiquity (Stanford University Press, 2002). Mendel Kranz is a PhD student in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Matthew Johnson is a PhD student in Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is the significance of Jew? How has this word come to have such varied and charged meanings? Who has (and has not) used it, and why? Cynthia Baker explores these questions and more in her new book Jew, part of the “Key Words in Jewish Studies” series at Rutgers University Press. In a set of absorbing case studies, Baker tracks the history of the word Jew from antiquity to the present. Among other topics, she writes about the debates concerning the terms Jews, Ioudaioi, and Judeans; the uses of yid in Yiddish; the emerging discourses about new Jews; and the genealogics of the twentiethcentury. In the course of her study, Baker exposes a number of problems that pertain to this key word, including the troubled relation between ethnicity and religion, the implications and impasses of translation, and the responsibility of the scholar in the face of the complex and often painful history of Jew. A compelling intervention in Jewish Studies, the book also opens provocative new avenues for research across the humanities and social sciences. For more information about Jew, a collection of fascinating responses can be read in the Marginalia Forum organized by Shaul Magid and Annette Yoshiko Reed for the LA Review of Books. Cynthia M. Baker is Professor of Religious Studies at Bates College, where she is also Chair of the Religious Studies Department. In addition to Jew, she is the author of Rebuilding the House of Israel: Architectures of Gender in Jewish Antiquity (Stanford University Press, 2002). Mendel Kranz is a PhD student in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Matthew Johnson is a PhD student in Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is the significance of Jew? How has this word come to have such varied and charged meanings? Who has (and has not) used it, and why? Cynthia Baker explores these questions and more in her new book Jew, part of the “Key Words in Jewish Studies” series at Rutgers University Press. In a set of absorbing case studies, Baker tracks the history of the word Jew from antiquity to the present. Among other topics, she writes about the debates concerning the terms Jews, Ioudaioi, and Judeans; the uses of yid in Yiddish; the emerging discourses about new Jews; and the genealogics of the twentiethcentury. In the course of her study, Baker exposes a number of problems that pertain to this key word, including the troubled relation between ethnicity and religion, the implications and impasses of translation, and the responsibility of the scholar in the face of the complex and often painful history of Jew. A compelling intervention in Jewish Studies, the book also opens provocative new avenues for research across the humanities and social sciences. For more information about Jew, a collection of fascinating responses can be read in the Marginalia Forum organized by Shaul Magid and Annette Yoshiko Reed for the LA Review of Books. Cynthia M. Baker is Professor of Religious Studies at Bates College, where she is also Chair of the Religious Studies Department. In addition to Jew, she is the author of Rebuilding the House of Israel: Architectures of Gender in Jewish Antiquity (Stanford University Press, 2002). Mendel Kranz is a PhD student in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Matthew Johnson is a PhD student in Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is the significance of Jew? How has this word come to have such varied and charged meanings? Who has (and has not) used it, and why? Cynthia Baker explores these questions and more in her new book Jew, part of the “Key Words in Jewish Studies” series at Rutgers University Press. In a set of absorbing case studies, Baker tracks the history of the word Jew from antiquity to the present. Among other topics, she writes about the debates concerning the terms Jews, Ioudaioi, and Judeans; the uses of yid in Yiddish; the emerging discourses about new Jews; and the genealogics of the twentiethcentury. In the course of her study, Baker exposes a number of problems that pertain to this key word, including the troubled relation between ethnicity and religion, the implications and impasses of translation, and the responsibility of the scholar in the face of the complex and often painful history of Jew. A compelling intervention in Jewish Studies, the book also opens provocative new avenues for research across the humanities and social sciences. For more information about Jew, a collection of fascinating responses can be read in the Marginalia Forum organized by Shaul Magid and Annette Yoshiko Reed for the LA Review of Books. Cynthia M. Baker is Professor of Religious Studies at Bates College, where she is also Chair of the Religious Studies Department. In addition to Jew, she is the author of Rebuilding the House of Israel: Architectures of Gender in Jewish Antiquity (Stanford University Press, 2002). Mendel Kranz is a PhD student in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Matthew Johnson is a PhD student in Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is the significance of Jew? How has this word come to have such varied and charged meanings? Who has (and has not) used it, and why? Cynthia Baker explores these questions and more in her new book Jew, part of the “Key Words in Jewish Studies” series at Rutgers University Press. In a set of absorbing case studies, Baker tracks the history of the word Jew from antiquity to the present. Among other topics, she writes about the debates concerning the terms Jews, Ioudaioi, and Judeans; the uses of yid in Yiddish; the emerging discourses about new Jews; and the genealogics of the twentiethcentury. In the course of her study, Baker exposes a number of problems that pertain to this key word, including the troubled relation between ethnicity and religion, the implications and impasses of translation, and the responsibility of the scholar in the face of the complex and often painful history of Jew. A compelling intervention in Jewish Studies, the book also opens provocative new avenues for research across the humanities and social sciences. For more information about Jew, a collection of fascinating responses can be read in the Marginalia Forum organized by Shaul Magid and Annette Yoshiko Reed for the LA Review of Books. Cynthia M. Baker is Professor of Religious Studies at Bates College, where she is also Chair of the Religious Studies Department. In addition to Jew, she is the author of Rebuilding the House of Israel: Architectures of Gender in Jewish Antiquity (Stanford University Press, 2002). Mendel Kranz is a PhD student in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Matthew Johnson is a PhD student in Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is the significance of Jew? How has this word come to have such varied and charged meanings? Who has (and has not) used it, and why? Cynthia Baker explores these questions and more in her new book Jew, part of the “Key Words in Jewish Studies” series at Rutgers University Press. In a set of absorbing case studies, Baker tracks the history of the word Jew from antiquity to the present. Among other topics, she writes about the debates concerning the terms Jews, Ioudaioi, and Judeans; the uses of yid in Yiddish; the emerging discourses about new Jews; and the genealogics of the twentiethcentury. In the course of her study, Baker exposes a number of problems that pertain to this key word, including the troubled relation between ethnicity and religion, the implications and impasses of translation, and the responsibility of the scholar in the face of the complex and often painful history of Jew. A compelling intervention in Jewish Studies, the book also opens provocative new avenues for research across the humanities and social sciences. For more information about Jew, a collection of fascinating responses can be read in the Marginalia Forum organized by Shaul Magid and Annette Yoshiko Reed for the LA Review of Books. Cynthia M. Baker is Professor of Religious Studies at Bates College, where she is also Chair of the Religious Studies Department. In addition to Jew, she is the author of Rebuilding the House of Israel: Architectures of Gender in Jewish Antiquity (Stanford University Press, 2002). Mendel Kranz is a PhD student in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Matthew Johnson is a PhD student in Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A special "Shloyshim" program in memory of Gella Schweid Fishman, master Yiddish teacher and archivist of the secular Yiddish school movement in the USA. Participants in the show include Dovid Fishman, Dov-Ber Kerler, Rukhl Schaechter, Dovid Braun, and Mark David. Fishman, who is Gella Fishman's son, is Professor of Jewish History at Jewish Theological Seminary. Kerler is Professor of Jewish Studies and Germanic Studies at Indiana University. Rukhl Schaechter is Editor of the Yiddish Forward newspaper and web site yiddish.forward.com. Braun and David are regular participants on the Yiddish Voice. Thanks for audio excerpts of Gella Fishman's 2016 interview by Christa Whitney, director of the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project. Thanks to Christa and Wexler! See link below additional audio, video, and info. Related links: Gella Fishman Fought Hard for the Dignity of Yiddish -- editorial in Yiddish by the Forverts Yiddish Teacher and Archivist Gella Schweid Fishman Has Died (Yiddish) -- obituary in Yiddish in the Forverts written by Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath Yiddish Teacher And Archivist Gella Schweid Fishman Has Died (English) -- obituary in English in the Forward written by Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath Gella Schweid Fishman's Oral History -- 2016 interview by the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History project Air Date: June 21, 2017

The inaugural lecture by Jürgen Barkhoff, Professor of German (1776) at the Department of Germanic Studies Biography: Jürgen Barkhoff is Professor of German (1776) at the Department of Germanic Studies and Head of School of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies. A native of Essen in Northrhine-Wetfalia/Germany he studied German, History and Pedagogics at the Universities of Tübingen, Hamburg and Dublin. He holds a Staatsexamen and doctorate from Hamburg University. He was DAAD-Lektor in Trinity College from 1988-1991, was appointed in 1995 to a lectureship in German and European Studies and was elected to Fellowship in 2000. From 2002-2005 he was Director of the Centre for European Studies, from 2007-2011 Registrar of the University and from 2012-2015 Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute. Between 2006 and 2011 he was Chair of the Culture, Arts and Humanities Task Force of the Coimbra Group network of European Universities. Since 2012 he serves as a member of the Coimbra Group Executive Board and is currently its Vice-Chair. He is a member of the Board of the Irish Humanities Alliance, of the Science Gallery Dublin and of the Strategic Advisory Board of the School of Advanced Studies at the University of London. His main research areas are literature and medicine, science and psychology around 1800, eco-literature, the networking of literature and culture in Europe, questions of identity in the German speaking world and Europe as reflected in literature and culture and Swiss literature. He has published widely on these topics, especially on the relationship between anthropology and literature in the late Enlightenment, Classicism and Romanticism, on identity discourses and on contemporary Swiss literature. In his research he explores interdisciplinary perspectives and how the past and its interpretations influence the present day. He is convenor of the College wide research-theme ‘Identities in Transformation'.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Award-winning Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman, director of Golden Globe winner "Waltz with Bashir" (2008), discusses his cinematic imagination with David Levin, professor of Germanic Studies, Cinema & Media Studies, and Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Award-winning Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman, director of Golden Globe winner "Waltz with Bashir" (2008), discusses his cinematic imagination with David Levin, professor of Germanic Studies, Cinema & Media Studies, and Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago.