2026-09-10
- Chidera Ezeokoli, a second-year M.A. student in Germanic Languages and Literatures, has been selected as one of eight Great Lakes Transatlantic Fellows for 2026. Sponsored by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Washington, DC, the fellowship brings master’s and doctoral students from across the...
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2026-09-08 - Irene Kuo earned her Ph.D. in German Studies from Stanford University and served as a Visiting Professor at Wake Forest University before joining the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research and teaching focuses on 21st century German literature, forced migration narratives,...
2026-09-01 - Kaffeestunde will be wunderbar in Fall 2026! We meet on Wednesdays from 5-6p, starting 9/9/2026. Join us for lively German conversation--all levels welcome! Some instructors offer extra credit for attendance. Questions? Contact Julian...
2026-05-11 - Multidirectional, Transnational, and Postauthoritarian Memories and the Literatures of Europe’s Eastern Borderlands (from the Baltic to the Caucasus), special issue of Monatshefte (U. Of Wisconsin P.), edited by Aura Heydenreich and Carl Niekerk, volume 118, issue 1 (Spring 2026)....
2026-04-21 - Professor Em. Mara R. Wade has been named an American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) Fellow for 2026-27 to support her postdoctoral research project, “The Global North—Copenhagen, Gottorf, and Greenland: The Colonial Enterprise and Celebrations at Court, ” at the Danish Royal Library, Royal...
2026-04-15 - Cities and Economic Democracy: Experiments in Comparative PerspectiveAbout This SymposiumAmidst widespread democratic backsliding, cities have emerged as key sites for challenging inequality and the erosion of democratic participation. This symposium assembles scholars focused on the distinctive...
2026-03-24 - In the fall of 1989, citizens of East Germany took to the streets and, for a few electric months, built something rare: a genuine experiment in radical democracy. Then the West moved in—and that experiment was erased from national and global memory. Remembering 1989 asks why this “time out of joint...
2026-03-06 - How do video games shape recent novels? This workshop invites students to discuss their own experiences with games while exploring short excerpts from contemporary fiction by Tonio Schachinger, Juan S. Guse, and Gabrielle Zevin. Together, we will examine how novels engage with gaming cultures,...
2026-03-05 - The talk reads Goethe’s Faust as a drama deeply concerned with unconscious practices of power – forms of influence, constraint, and self-constraint that operate beneath the level of explicit moral reasoning. Centering gender and social hierarchy, it argues that the play turns Margarete...
2025-09-19 - Undergraduates and friends of the humanities—you're invited to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s first ever Humanities Open House! Join us on Saturday, October 4, 2025, when we’ll be...
2025-09-08 - Andrew Sternhagen Schwenk was recently selected as this year's winner of the German Quarterly Graduate Student Paper Award. An edited version of his submission is slated to appear in German Quarterly in 2026. This upcoming article "Melusine, ...
2025-08-25 - Professor Stephanie Hilger is looking at how 18th century European medical doctors shaped perceptions of “hermaphrodites”—people who were deemed to have non-normative sexual genitalia—through case histories. Hilger’s new book, “...
2025-05-12 - Ernst A. Philippson Graduate Research Travel Award: Awarded to a graduate student in the department for dissertation research travel abroad.
2025-05-12 - Edelweiss Scholarship Award: Awarded to students intending to become a high school teacher.