2024-04-22
- How did German composers brand their music as Venetian? How did the Other fare in other languages, when Cabeza’s Relación of colonial Americas appeared in translations? How did Altdorf emblems travel to colonial America and Sweden? What does Virtue look like in a library collection? And what was Boccaccio’s Decameron doing in the Ethica section? From...
2024-04-22 - Civic virtues were central to early modern Nürnberg’s visual culture. These essays in this volume explore Nürnberg as a location from which to study the intersection of art and power. The imperial city was awash in emblems, and they informed most aspects of everyday life. The intent of this collection is to focus new attention on the town hall emblems, while simultaneously expanding the purview...
2024-04-22 - The first full-length study to bring together the fields of Health Humanities and German studies, this book features contributions from a range of key scholars and provides an overview of the latest work being done at the intersection of these two disciplines. In addition to surveying the current critical terrain in unparalleled depth, it also explores future directions that these fields may take...
2024-04-22 - Sherman Adams was born in Atlanta and immigrated to Sweden in the 1960s, where he became a prominent activist and journalist. His memoir, Mitt Amerika (My America), published in 1980, is still well known in Sweden. It gives an account of Adams’s childhood during Jim Crow. The memoir was published in Swedish from an English manuscript and has also been published in Danish and Russian. Adams...
2024-04-22 - Early Romanticism’s New Old Religions. Tieck, Schlegel, Novalis German Early Romanticism is characterized by a newly awakened interest in religious practices and institutions: Novalis and Friedrich Schlegel exchange letters discussing their desire to write a new Bible. Friedrich Schleiermacher discovers religion as a ‘taste for the Infinite’ (Geschmack fürs Unendliche). Ludwig...
2024-04-22 - The workshop "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in German Language Teaching" will be held on Saturday, March 23, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the Lucy Ellis Lounge. Dr. Harriett Jernigan (Stanford University) will join us to share her expertise on the topic and to guide participants in incorporating DEI content into their curricula. There will be hands-on opportunities for participants to...
2024-04-22 - Come hear a variety of perspectives from the students of GER 465 on the changing linguistic landscape of Europe. The event is open to the public, and light refreshments will be provided. Please reach out to the Director of the Basic Language Program and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Charlie Webster, with questions.
2024-04-22 - The graduate students of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures are pleased to announce their research colloquium for the spring of 2024. On April 25, doctoral candidates Felix Ayanbode, Laura Olbrich, and Andrew Schwenk will speak on the most current work in their ongoing dissertation research. Please join us for a short series of informative presentations on German studies...
2024-04-16 - In this book, Carl Niekerk probes the origins of modern anthropology in the European Enlightenment, foregrounding how the knowledge transfer between an international array of natural historians and public intellectuals—including Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon; Voltaire; Denis Diderot; Immanuel Kant; and Johann Gottfried Herder—shaped the emerging discipline and its central debates....
2024-04-03 - Vienna is the historic capital of the multinational Habsburg Empire, a melting pot of language and cultures, and the crossroads between East and West. Salzburg, Prague, Budapest, and Munich are only a few hours away, while a day's train ride takes you to Venice or Paris-- via the Orient Express. Participation in the program gives you the opportunity to develop German language fluency and an...
2024-04-03 - German Early Romanticism is characterized by a newly awakened interest in religious practices and institutions: Novalis and Friedrich Schlegel exchange letters discussing their desire to write a new Bible. Friedrich Schleiermacher discovers religion as a ‘taste for the Infinite’ (Geschmack fürs Unendliche). Ludwig Tieck and Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder invent the ‘art-loving monk’ (kunstliebenden...
2024-04-03 - Anna Elizabeth Hunt Dr. Hunt is an assistant professor in the Germanic department. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? My first book is provisionally titled Sites of Grief: Mourning, Politics, Forgiveness. It’s an expansion of my dissertation, “Taking the World by Storm: Forgiveness in the Early Writings...
2024-04-03 - ILIP is a unique educational experience designed to accelerate language learning through an immersive classroom atmosphere that is fun and welcoming. ILIP classes combine language and culture through engaging high-quality activities facilitated by our skilled instructors. You'll receive 30-hours of enjoyable language instruction, which maximizes exposure to the target language to help them meet...
2023-11-15 - Prof. Hunt receives EU Center grant and affiliation for her GER 199 CHP class: The Holocaust and Discourse of Human Rights, which she is currently teaching for the Campus Honors Program. World War II (1939-1945) marked a dramatic shift in how international communities think about trauma and remember war and other catastrophic events. Focus moved from honoring heroes on the battlefield to...
2023-11-15 - Charlie Webster, who is the Director of the Basic Language Program and the Director of Undergraduate Studies, was awarded a course development grant from the European Union Center to develop a new course about how multilingualism manifests itself in European cities. The award includes a course development stipend and funding for a graduate assistant. “Multilingual European Cities” will be taught...