About us
This group is operated by the Dallas Goethe Center (1/1/20) and offers programs and activities for those who are interested in promoting German language and culture. We hope to bring “ein bißchen Heimatgefühl” to North Texas, and provide you with the opportunity to share your love for the German culture and language “bei deutscher Gemütlichkeit”.
If you would like to brush up your German or learn it for the first time, we offer classes throughout the Metroplex, in Arlington/Fort Worth, Dallas and Denton. We recognize the close relationship between culture and language learning. We therefore give our students the opportunity to meet native speakers and other people who share an interest in fostering an appreciation for German language, culture, and traditions. Studying German with us offers students much more than an ordinary language program. They will become members of a community.
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Upcoming events
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Speaker Series – The Multicultural & Multilingual Immigrant Heritage of the U.S.
·OnlineOnlineThe 2025/26 speaker program of the German Texan Heritage Society and Dallas Goethe Center will commemorate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. by focusing on our rich multicultural, multilingual, immigrant heritage. Dr. Julia Brookins will offer the spring presentation which will be hosted by the Texas State Historical Association’s TX Talks program. The presentation will be via zoom at 7:00 p.m., March 17, 2026. Go here to register for the program – https://tsha.wildapricot.org/event-6518407 – after which you will receive the Zoom link and a reminder prior to the program.
Dr. Brookins is Senior Program Analyst, Teaching & Learning, Special Projects Coordinator for the American Historical Association. After graduating from Harvard she earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Freie Universität, Berlin.
In her presentation “The Collision of Race and Nationalism in Early Texas; The Veramendi Cases of New Braunfels,” Dr. Brookins will discuss how race and nativism affected a lawsuit over a property dispute as the norms of Anglos, Germans, and Tejanos collided in antebellum Texas.
Due to the Adelsverein buying property without clear title for German immigrants for the establishment of New Braunfels and then becoming insolvent, lawsuits followed. Decided by the Texas Supreme Court in favor of the New Braunfels citizens, the Court’s opinion in 1879 went beyond issues of law relying on the German pioneers’ contributions to the economic development of the region. Resolving decades of complex litigation, the Court’s decision reflected the role cultural norms played in affirming America’s integration of both new lands and new people.
After graduating from Harvard, Dr. Brookins was a Fulbright Scholar at the Freie Universität, Berlin, and earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago. She is an education program analyst for the American Historical Association.
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On the Road: Readings with Young German Writers
SMU campus: Frances Anne Moody Hall, 6404 Airline Rd,, Dallas, TX, USJoin Goethe-Institut Houston and the Dallas Goethe Center at Southern Methodist University (SMU) for On the Road: Readings with Young German Writers.
Organized by the Goethe-Institut, in cooperation with the German Literature Institute in Leipzig and local partners throughout the USA, ON THE ROAD presents two up-and-coming young German writers, Louise Kenn and Mücahit Türk for a month‑long literary journey across the United States.
As they venture the country, stopping along the way to gain impressions of daily life in America, they will share their insights on writing, culture, and the art of storytelling through a series of public readings, lively discussions, and thoughtful conversations with local audiences. As part of their cross‑country travels, Kenn and Türk will visit the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX, where they will share their texts and stories in a reading that offers a distinctive cross‑cultural glimpse into contemporary German literature.
Please register here.
Location:
Frances Anne Moody Hall at Southern Methodist University
Room 125
6404 Airline Road
Dallas, TX 752054 attendees
Lecture - Reactionary Populism, the ‘New’ Nationalism, and the End of Liberalism
Location not specified yetJames Hollifield, Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Political Science, Director of the Tower Center and, Acting Director of the Texas-México Center at SMU will talk about Reactionary Populism, the ‘New’ Nationalism, and the End of Liberalism. Please find James Hollifield`s bio here.
The United States is not alone. Liberal democracies around the world have experienced a rise in reactionary populism and a ‘new’ nationalism reaching levels not seen since the interwar period of the 1920s and ‘30s.
Professor James Hollifield will explain this dramatic shift in politics, and he will put the American experience into comparative and historical perspective: from the breakthrough of radical right parties in Europe, to Brexit in the U.K., the rise of the AfD in Germany, and the election and reelection of Donald Trump, who has vowed to ‘make America great again’ by doubling down on economic nationalism (across the board tariffs for friend and foe alike), rolling back civil rights and liberties of citizens, immigrants (mass deportations), and other minority groups, and repudiation of the EU and the Atlantic Alliance. Is this the end of the liberal interregnum in world politics, 1945-2025 RIP? If so, what next?
A reception will be held before the lecture. Please register by email: info@dallasgoethecenter.org and include the number and names of the guests. Further details and the location will then be provided.
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