Skip to main content
Body
Body
Shield
Rice University News and Media Relations Office of Public Affairs

Main Nav

German Studies

oak tree german american institute

Rice plants new oak tree to celebrate German-American friendship

October 13, 2025

The Berlin Wall section in front of Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy is now joined by a new oak tree as a symbol of German-American friendship and solidarity from the Goethe-Institut Houston.

Still from 1927 silent film "The Chess Player"

Johannes von Moltke takes on the ‘geist in the machine’

October 18, 2021

Third talk in the ‘Cinema and the Post-Human’ lecture series takes place Nov. 5

Poet Paul Celan

Paul Celan conference brings international experts on poetry to Rice

March 4, 2020

As one of the most important and influential poets of the 20th century, Paul Celan’s life and work reflect a central ethical and literary concern of his own time: “Can one still write poetry after Auschwitz?”

Body
Current Featured Releases Alerts Dateline Contact BACK TO TOP

6100 Main St., Houston, TX 77005-1827 |

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892 |

713-348-0000 | Privacy Policy | Campus Carry