The AFM Executive Committee organizes one symposium per year. During the years with even numbers it meets at the DLA in Marbach, and in the years with odd numbers at the university where a AFM Executive Committee member is teaching.
Current Conference
2024 – A Profusion of Tongues: Migration, Multilinguality, and German Writing.
DLA Marbach. June 26-28, 2024. More info.
Past Conferences
2022 – The Persistence of Reading in a Digital Age
DLA Marbach. June 20-22, 2022. More info.
2020 and 2021 – Cancelled due to COVID-19 Pandemic.
2019 – Germany from the Outside
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. September 20-21, 2019.
2018 – Reinhart Koselleck and Begriffsgeschichte in the Twentieth Century
DLA Marbach. Juni 14-15, 2016.
2017 – Transatlantic German Studies: Personal Experiences
Washington University in St. Louis. September 14-16, 2017.
2016 – Text | Image | Sound
DLA Marbach. Juni 9-11, 2016.
2015 – Around Cassirer
Yale University. May 7-9, 2015.
2014 – New Holdings – New Ways
DLA Marbach. June 5-7, 2014.
2013 – Exiled Writers in Princeton 1933-1945. Cultural Transfer and Dialogue Princeton University. May 9-11, 2013.
2012 – Das Amerikanische Jahr
DLA Marbach. Juni 20-22, 2012.
2011 – German Philosophy in America
University of Chicago. May 20-21, 2011
2010 – Germanistik in den USA. Ein Workshop
DLA Marbach. June 24-26, 2010.
2009 – Posthumous Lives. Literary Archives in the Twenty-First Century University of Pennsylvania. March 19-21, 2009.
2008 – American Friends – Gründungsgespräch
DLA Marbach. June 1-4, 2008.