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On Tuesday, March 10, 2020, Visiting Max Kade Professor Dr. Nikolai Preuschoff will speak on "Modesty and Rebellion in Robert Walser's Berlin Novels." 5:15 p.m., 2090B Foreign Languages Building.
This course meets March-May 2020. Examination of the Holocaust in the context of German literature and film. Focus on works now considered to comprise the canon of Holocaust literature and cinema. We will investigate narrative and filmic strategies for representation of the Holocaust. In English. This course fulfills the Advanced Composition requirement. Same as ENGL 268 and CWL 271.
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- Professor Mara Wade will be President of the RSA as of April 2020. Currently the RSA Vice President, Prof.
- The German Quarterly's Fall 2019 issue offers a forum on the question "Does German Cultural Studies need the Nation-State Model?" with contributions by 24 scholars from 7 different countries.
- Elena Wilson, a senior majoring in German Studies and Molecular and Cell Biology, has been named Lincoln Academy Student Laureate. Each year, the Lincoln Academy Student Laureate Award is given to a senior at the University of Illinois through the Chancellor’s Honors Program.
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GER 250 - SUMMER I 2020Summer I 2020 (4 weeks, 5/18 - 6/11). Fulfills Advanced Composition, Literature and the Arts, and Cultural Studies-Western requirements. Join us to experience tales you thought you knew and tales you never knew. We read tales by the Grimms and others, and we consider film, illust
GER 260 - Second Eight Weeks, Spring 2020Eight-Week Course for Spring 2020. Meets 3/16/20 - 5/6/20; TR 11a - 1:45p. Examination of the Holocaust in the context of German literature and film. Focus on works now considered to comprise the canon of Holocaust literature and cinema.
