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Each semester, the European Cultural Studies program invites a renowned guest speaker to campus to present their work to Brandeis students and faculty. Sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies.
Mediating Galicia in Joseph Roth’s Job
Featuring Prof. Kata Gellen, Duke University
2:30 - 3:50pm, Monday, March 11, 2024, Golding 103
Trace, Touch, and Symbol: Philosophical Issues in Early Art
Featuring C. Allen Speight, Professor of Philosophy at Boston University
4-5:30pm, Tuesday, March 21, 2023, Shiffman 123
The Hunter and His Game: Seeking Nature in Turgenev's Stories
Featuring Thomas P. Hodge, Chair of Russian Studies at Wellesley College
2:30-3:50pm, Monday, October 3, 2022, Shiffman 123
Trip to the MFA
With the German and ECS UDRs, including a guided tour of the new Center for Netherlandish Art!
March 18, 2022
Fall 2021 Lemon Cake Lecture
Featuring: Andrew Kaufman
Nov. 17, 2021
Spring 2019 Lemon Cake Lecture
Publishing World Literature in the Age of Nationalism
Meike G. Werner (Vanderbilt University)
April 15, 2019, Shiffman 219
Spring 2018 ECS Lemon Cake Lecture
Philosophy and the Enigma of Early Art
Featuring Professor Allen Speight, Chair, Department of Philosophy, Boston University
March 1, 2018
Spring 2018 ECS Chocolate Cake Lecture
A New Aeneid
Featuring David Ferry
Feb. 8, 2018
Fall 2018 ECS Chocolate Cake Lecture
Radical Thinking
Featuring Christy Wampole, Associate Professor of French at Princeton University
Nov. 8, 2018
Spring 2017 ECS Chocolate Cake Lecture
Kierkegaard’s Response to Hegel’s Interpretation of Antigone
Featuring Jon Stewart, Research Fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
March 30, 2017
Spring 2017 ECS Lemon Cake Lecture
‘But little ... that I can recognize’: Challenges of Writing the Civil War
Featuring Elizabeth D. Samet, Professor of English at the U.S. Military Academy
March 13, 2017
Spring 2016 ECS Lemon Cake Lecture
Dostoevsky’s Concept of Unity: Pro and Contra
Fall 2015 ECS Chocolate Cake Lecture
Osip Mandelstam and Visual Experience
Spring 2015 ECS Lemon Cake Lecture
Bakhtin and the Actor
Featuring Caryl Emerson, A. Watson Armour III University Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University
March 18, 2015
Fall 2014 ECS Chocolate Cake Lecture
The Prosodic Protolanguage Hypothesis and the Origins of Poetry
Featuring Anna Christina Ribeiro, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Texas Tech University
Nov. 24, 2014
Do you have suggestions for possible European Cultural Studies excursions or events? If so, please contact one of our Undergraduate Departmental Representatives (UDRs).