U.S. Biography Launch of A. Rosenberger, Co-Founder of Porsche
Co-Sponsored By: The Emory College Department of German Studies, Department of History, The Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, Porsche AG and Porsche Cars North America. Please register via the link below.
The Department of German Studies at Emory College of Arts & Sciences cordially invites you to the official English-language book launch of Adolf Rosenberger’s biography by historian Prof. Joachim Scholtyseck (University of Bonn, Germany).
The event will take place on Thursday, March 19, at 5 pm at the Convocation Hall, located on Emory’s main quad.
Born in Pforzheim, Germany, in 1900, Adolf Rosenberger was the son of an assimilated Jewish family. At 17, he became a combat pilot in World War I, then a technician, businessman, and factory racing driver at Mercedes-Benz. Rosenberger founded Porsche GmbH in Stuttgart in 1930-31 together with Ferdinand Porsche and his son-in-law, Anton Piëch. He was later forced out by the Nazi regime.
Dr. Christoph Rückel and Dr. Sandra Esslinger will introduce the…
University Event Topic: Arts. Business. Humanities. International. Lectures & Meetings. Department / Organization: History Department. Speaker/Presenter: Dr. Joachim Scholtyseck, University of Bonn, Germany. Event Open To: All (Public). Cost: Free. Registration / R.S.V.P. link: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=nPsE4KSwT0K80DImBtXfOHIxqaWWYPRFhqJHTykhBm1URVkxM1c0N1hWRTBBRTE5NE9NNTVHSjFGUSQlQCN0PWcu&route=shorturl. Contact Name: Dr. Peter Höyng. Contact Email: phoeyng@emory.edu.
Thursday, March 19, 2026, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
505 Kilgo Cir | Convocation Hall, Room 210.
TTA Workshop - Timothy Messen: "'Bayou' Opacities: Material and Epistemic Questions in the Louisiana Contact Zone Archive"
Sponsor: Theorizing the Americas Workshop.
Co-sponsors: Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies, Department of History, and Oxford College Humanities Division.
RSVP via the link below.
Email Rebecca Rubenstein for more information.Abstract: The perception and depiction of bayous is inseparable from the socio-political history of Louisiana. The word “bayou” enters Louisiana French via Mobilian Jargon, a Native lingua franca heavily influenced by Choctaw, yet the history linking Louisiana French to Indigenous nations of the Lower Mississippi Valley has been oft overlooked or downplayed. The values (or lack thereof) attributed to the bayou ecosystem and its inhabitants form part of a continuous semiotic network between material reality, linguistic signification, and cultural exchange of Gulf Coast contact zones. This chapter wagers that the material opacity of bayous, i.e. their difficulty to navigate, map, and control,…
University Event Topic: Academics. Humanities. Department / Organization: History Department. Speaker/Presenter: Timothy Messen, Emory University. Series: Theorizing the Americas Workshops. Registration / R.S.V.P. link: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=nPsE4KSwT0K80DImBtXfOGbZMjIJBHdOkgcW9QVGMVxUOTdRUlY3OUtSMFVZRTZaQUwxQTdGUUNMWC4u. Contact Name: Rebecca Rubenstein. Contact Email: rebecca.rubenstein@emory.edu.
Friday, March 20, 2026, 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM.
1635 N. Decatur Rd | Fox Center.