Small Forms: Aesthetics—Media—Modernity

Institute for German Cultural Studies

The Institute for German Cultural Studies is a research-oriented initiative designed both to recognize extraordinary cross-disciplinary strengths in the study of German culture at Cornell University and to foster cutting-edge scholarly exchange pertaining to the interdisciplinary study of German culture from the medieval era to the present.

IGCS News

Institute for German Cultural Studies Spring 2024 Colloquium Series

1/26/2024

Spring 2024 Colloquium Series

Rehearsing the Revolution: On Damani Partridge’s “Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin”

11/02/2023

On November 2, Professor Damani Partridge, an eminent scholar in Anthropology, Africana Studies, and German Studies at the University of Michigan and Vice President and President Elect of the German Studies Association, gave a lecture on “Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitize...

Esther Dischereit presenting in front of audience — Photo credit: Nicolau Spadoni

IGCS Event: Esther Dischereit

9/19/2023

Esther Dischereit: Wer war Fritz Kittel?

Dr. Jenny Korber — Photo credit: Anna Reynders

IGCS Colloquium: Dr. Jenny Körber

9/15/2023

Dr. Jenny Körber: "Irdischeund himmlische Verhältnisse: Ordnungen der Genealogie und Heraldik"

IGCS Colloquium: Ulrike Vedder

9/01/2023

Ulrike Vedder: “Auswandern - Heimkehren - Verschellen: Liminales Erzählen und die Kunst des Handelns in der Auswandererliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts”

Institute for German Cultural Studies Fall 2023 Colloquium Series

8/23/2023

Fall 2023 Colloquium Series

New Directions in German Studies A Symposium by the Graduate Students of German Studies

Symposium: New Directions in German Studies

3/01/2023

The goal of this symposium is to provide students from across cohorts an opportunity to present their research, answer questions, and receive feedback on their work. It draws on the expertise of a variety of disciplines such as Romance studies, comparative literature, medieval studies, art history, ...