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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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John Zilcosky

John Zilcosky is Professor of German and Comparative Literature. He writes about modern European literature and culture, psychoanalysis, trauma, the art of travel, and the history and philosophy of sports. His books include Kafka’s Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing (winner of the MLA’s Scaglione Prize, awarded biennially for the best book in German Studies), Writing Travel: The Poetics and Politics of the Modern Journey, Uncanny Encounters: Literature,...

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

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john.zilcosky@utoronto.ca

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Edward Schatz

Edward Schatz is the Director of the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (CERES) at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. He is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. His latest book, Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia, was published with Stanford University Press. His previous books include Paradox of Power: The Logics of State Weakness in Eurasia (2017)...

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Room 323N, 1 Devonshire Place

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ed.schatz@utoronto.ca

Alexander Reisenbichler

Alexander Reisenbichler is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and research coordinator of the Joint Initiative of German and European Studies (JIGES) at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. His work explores the politics of housing, financial, and labor markets in advanced economies, with regional specializations in Western Europe and the United States. His book project investigates the political economy of housing capitalism in the United...

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128N, 1 Devonshire Place

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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 and 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 1770 to 1945. My research has been assisted by grants...

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Room 2084, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St.

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james.retallack@utoronto.ca

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Claudia Diehl

Claudia Diehl is the 2019-2020 Hannah Arendt Visiting Chair in German and European Studies. She joins the Munk School from the University of Konstanz where she holds a chair in microsociology. Claudia is currently working on integration processes among new immigrants in Europe and on xenophobia and ethnic discrimination. She received her PhD from the University of Mannheim in 2001 and has been a researcher at the research institute of the...

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219N, 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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w.goetschel@utoronto.ca

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Randall Hansen

Randall Hansen is the Full Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and Canada Research in Global Migration. He works on Immigration and Citizenship, Demography and Population Policy and the Effects of War on Civilians. His published works include Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance after Operation Valkyrie (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), Sterilized by the State: Eugenics, Race and the Population Scare in 20th Century North America (New York:...

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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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angelica.fenner@utoronto.ca

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Triadafilos (Phil) Triadafilopoulos

Phil Triadafilopoulos is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He teaches courses in political science and public policy at the University of Toronto Scarborough and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and conducts research in the areas of immigration and citizenship policy in Europe and North America. Triadafilopoulos received his Ph.D. in Political Science for the New School for Social Research and is...

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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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