Seminar « The Nations of Philology » im Rahmen der German Studies Association Conference 2019 (Portland, Oregon, October 3-6, 2019)

The intellectual goal of this seminar is to conduct a systematic and historical self-reflection of German Studies in its relationship to the idea of the German nation. More specifically, we seek to explore critically the intricate entanglement of philology, literature, and the idea of a German nation, with an emphasis on the so-called Sattelzeit (1750 – 1850), but also with a look on what we generally call German studies or Germanistik today.