2024-04-26
- GLL PhD. Student Jared Evan Cohen won The Program in Jewish Culture & Society Karasik Scholarship for the coming academic year 2024-2025 to advance his pre-dissertation research in German-Jewish studies. The scholarship...
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2024-04-26 - GLL doctoral candidate Andrew Schwenk has been awarded a competitive and prestigious Fulbright Fellowship to study in Germany during the academic year 2024-2025. He will be conducting research for his dissertation at the Herzog...
2024-04-22 - We are pleased to announce the first graduate research colloquium of the academic year for the department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. In two weeks, doctoral candidate Zachary Hader will be delivering a talk entitled “An Introduction to Spectrality through Christoph Ransmayr’s ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...