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  • Priscilla Layne

    Lecture: Prof. Priscilla Layne on Futurity and Black German Childhood, February 3, 2023

    Prof. Priscilla Layne (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) will speak on Friday, February 3, 2023 at 3p Central, over Zoom. The lecture is entitled "The Kids are Alright: Futurity and Black German Childhood in Schwarzrund's Biskaya (2017)." This talk is the first in our lecture series "Making a Difference in German and Scandinavian Studies." For Zoom information, please contact...
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  • Kaffee und Plätzchen

    Join us for Kaffeestunde!

    Kaffeestunde will be wunderbar in Spring 2023! We meet at Caffe Paradiso Wednesdays at 5p. Join us for lively German conversation--all levels welcome! Some instructors offer extra credit for attendance. Questions? Contact Andrew Schwenk (aschwen2@illinois.edu).
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    Meet Our Graduate Students!

    Meet some of our current MA and PhD students here! And learn much more about our graduate programs and life as a graduate student at Illinois.
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  • Student Highlight: Sophia Ebel, BA 2022!
    Sophia Ebel double-majored in German Studies and in Comparative and World Literature, with minors in French and Arabic. She graduated in May 2022, and has won a Fulbright grant to teach English and conduct research in Austria in 2022-2023! At UIUC, Sophia served as president of UIUC Deutschklub,...
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  • Congratulations to John Slattery and Lujun Guo, Winners of SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowships!
    PhD candidates John Slattery and Lujun Guo have won competitive School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Dissertation Completion Fellowships. John's...
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  • Upcoming German Club Election!
    The UIUC German Club will hold an end-of-semester social and its elections for officers for 2022-2023 this Thursday, April 14 from 5-6p in Bevier Lounge (second floor of Bevier Hall). We'll vote on six new executive officers: President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Membership...
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  • GER 465
    GER 465

    Die deutsche Sprache in Österreich

    Explore the German language in Austria from a sociolinguistic perspective. Topics include the linguistic history of Austria, pluricentricity and standard language variation, Austrian dialects, language contact and linguistic minorities, language policy, multilingualism, and second language pedagogy...
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    GER 473

    Protest Memory: Post-1989 Literature, Film, and Theory

    We will discuss a diverse archive of post-1989 literature, film, and memorials in order to reexamine the so-called Peaceful Revolution and the interval year of ’89-90. More specifically, we ask what kind of cultural memories of street activism, resistance, and alternative social vision were left...
    Course Description for GER 473
  • Babylon Berlin
    GER 396

    Babylon Berlin

    In 1929, Berlin was known to be a hedonistic city of extremes: corrupt wealth existed alongside destitute poverty and an underground world of wild parties and glamour. In this course we delve into the internationally acclaimed television series “Babylon Berlin” to explore the Golden Twenties in...
    Course Description for GER 396
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    GER 201

    German Popular Culture: Tales of Horror

    It is hard to overstate how central vampires and zombies, doppelgänger and killers, ghosts and artificial humans—haunted hybrids—have been to the construction of German identity. Few exercises reveal more about a culture than exploring its evolving pathologies, which is exactly what those seemingly...
    Course Description for GER 201
  • Holocaust on Film
    GER 261

    The Holocaust on Film

    We investigate literary and filmic representations of the Holocaust. While a single course cannot do justice to this complex topic, we read four novels and screen five films concerning cultural representations of victims and perpetrators, and Holocaust denial and documentation. Please note that you...
    Course Description for GER 261
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    GER and SCAN

    Germanic Department Courses Spring 2021

    Check us out in Spring 2021! Some of our courses are highlighted here, and contact Prof. Laurie Johnson for more information about our full range of offerings!
    Course Description for GER and SCAN
  • German 101 in Vienna
    GER 101

    German 101 Online From Vienna: Second Eight Weeks Fall 2020

    This online course will be offered during the second half of the Fall 2020 semester. Vienna, Austria will be your virtual classroom as you learn German! You'll interact with Austrian students via online assignments, and investigate themes related to your major or minor (in ACES, BUS, ENG, LAS, FAA...
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