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Phil Triadafilopoulos

Phil Triadafilopoulos is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto’s Department of Political Science and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Triadafilopoulos received his Ph.D. in Political Science for the New School for Social Research and is a former Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow. He also held a two-year visiting research fellowship at the Institute for Social Sciences at Humboldt...

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Jennifer Jenkins

Jennifer L. Jenkins is Associate Professor of German and European History at the University of Toronto, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Modern German History. She is the author of Provincial Modernity: Local Culture and Liberal Politics in Fin-de-Siècle Hamburg (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003) and has held fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Harvard University’s Center for European Studies and from the National Endowment...

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Thomas Lahusen

Thomas Lahusen (PhD, Lausanne, Switzerland) is Professor at the Department of History and Centre of Comparative Literature. His research interests focus on the multi-faceted experiences of “real socialism” and other forms of “totalitarian” culture during the twentieth century. His publications include How Life Writes the Book: Real Socialism and Socialist Realism in Stalin’s Russia (1997) and the following co-edited collections: Late Soviet Culture: From Perestroika to Novostroika (1993), Intimacy and...

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Room 318N, 1 Devonshire Place

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Willi Goetschel

Background PhD 1989 in German, Harvard University Lic. phil (=M. Phil) 1982 in Philosophy, Universität Zürich President, Foundation Stiftung Dialogik www.dialogik.org General Editor, Bamidbar: Journal for Jewish Thought and Philosophy www.bamidbar-journal.org Executive Editor, The Germanic Review Editorial Board, Weimarer Beiträge Editorial Board, Lessing Year Book teaching interests 18th to 20th century German Literature and Thought, Enlightenment, German Jewish Culture, Critical Theory. Current research interests I am currently working on a project that examines the emergence of how modern philosophy theorizes difference, otherness, and alterity. The project called “Difference...

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Odette Hall 313 50 St. Joseph Street Toronto, ON M5S 1J4

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Angelica Fenner

Angelica Fenner is cross-appointed Associate Professor of German and Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto and the current Graduate Coordinator in the Cinema Studies Institute. She is the author of Race Under Reconstruction in German Cinema (University of Toronto Press, 2011), co-editor of The Autobiographical Turn in Germanophone Documentary and Experimental Film (Camden House, 2014), and currently completing a book project on first-person film-making in contemporary Germany. Her interests...

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James Retallack

After graduating from Trent University in 1978, I studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and received my D.Phil. in 1983. I joined the University of Toronto in 1987, where I am now Professor of History and German Studies. I served as Chair of the German Department from 1999 to 2002. I teach undergraduate and graduate courses, and supervise Ph.D. field preparations and dissertations, in German and European history from...

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Room 120N, 1 Devonshire Place

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John Zilcosky

Prof. John Zilcosky teaches German and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, where he writes about modernist literature, travel writing, colonial cultures and psychoanalysis. His publications include Kafka’s Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism and the Traffic of Writing (winner of the MLA’s Scaglione Prize, 2003), Writing Travel: The Poetics and Politics of the Modern Journey (2008), andUncanny Encounters: Literature, Psychoanalysis and the End of Alterity (forthcoming, 2015). Zilcosky also writes about philosophy,...

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Odette Hall 303 50 St. Joseph Street Toronto, ON M5S 1J4

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John Noyes

Research: Globalization, culture and philosophy in late-Enlightenment Germany; Concepts of the Human in Post-Apartheid South Africa Recent Book: Herder: Aesthetics against Imperialism (University of Toronto Press, 2015) Forthcoming Book: Herder’s “Essay on Being”: A Translation and Critical Approaches (Camden House) Recent Awards: Fellowship at Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (South Africa) (2017) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship: “The Legacy of Herder’s Theory of Cultural Difference and Universal Reason” (2016-17) SSHRC Insight Development Grant: “Globalization in the Age of...

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