12/06/2019 - Professor Mara Wade will be President of the RSA as of April 2020. Currently the RSA Vice President, Prof.

11/19/2019 - The German Quarterly's Fall 2019 issue offers a forum on the question "Does German Cultural Studies need the Nation-State Mod

11/19/2019 - 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

11/08/2019 - Charlie Webster, Director of the Center for Language Instruction and Coordination (CLIC) and Director of the German Language Program, has organized an reading group entitled "The Role of Study Abroad in Higher Education." 

11/01/2019 - On Thursday, November 7, 2019, Dr. Theo Malekin will give a talk as the first speaker in this year's department lecture series.

10/14/2019 - At "Undergraduate Program in German at Illinois Urbana-Champaign," you'll find information about upcoming events, internships, fellowships, study abroad, and all things GLL!

09/26/2019 - German speakers on all levels are welcome to attend Kaffeestunde, held each Wednesday during the semester from 5-7 p.m. at Caffe Paradiso, 801 S. Lincoln, Urbana.

07/18/2019 - German minor and recent University of Illinois graduate Kiersten Heiman has been admitted to the School of Law at Washington University-St. Louis, one of the nation's most competitive law schools.

07/18/2019 - German minor and recent University of Illinois graduate Emily Freiburger has won a grant to teach English in Austria, under the auspices of the Fulbright Foundation and the Austrian-American Educat

07/17/2019 - Fourteen projects have been awarded funds under a new initiative to celebrate the impact and importance of the arts and humanities across the University of Illin

07/17/2019 - Mara Wade was chosen to receive a 2018 Reimar Lüst Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

07/17/2019 - Charlie Webster, Director of the German Language Program, has been named the next Director of Illinois's Center for Language Instruction and Teaching (

07/17/2019 - German Studies has always grappled with navigating the relationship between geopolitical and linguistic-cultural spaces. Germany From the Outside brings current