Please join us for our first Fall 2025 German Studies Colloquium presentation on September 30th from 3:30-4:30pm in SHH 236 – all are welcome! If you wish to join online please follow this Zoom link. The German Studies Colloquium takes places 3 times per semester and showcases research conducted by graduate students, a German Studies […]
We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Florian White to our team in German Studies as he starts his first semester as the new Assistant Professor in Residence. Here’s a little bit of information from Dr. White himself: “I grew up in the Black Forest in Germany and have lived and studied in the U.S., India, […]
Prof. Wogenstein published a new book on songs from the Vilna ghetto in a bi-lingual edition (German and Yiddish) and presented the book together at an event that included the performance of songs (please see below). The book is described as follows on the publisher’s page: “In this new edition of Shmerke Kaczerginski’s collection of […]
This June 2025, several German Studies faculty and colleagues from other departments and partner universities will present talks at “Human Rights in the Balance: Safeguarding Social and Environmental Sustainability”, a new Human Rights and Research Consortium conference taking place in Freiburg, Germany: “On the occasion of its 4th conference, the Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium […]
April and May, once again, is award season, and we are thrilled to celebrate our German Studies students with the following awards issued by the Department of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages and by the Baden-Württemberg Exchange Program: Marlis Zeller Cambon Scholarship Fund: Ian McWilliams and Aditya Makarla Excellence in the EUROBIZ program: Grace Oberbannscheidt Excellence […]
Julian Cote-Dorado, who majored in Political Science with German Studies and Economics minors, has been accepted into the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) for Young Professionals for the 2025-26 academic year. Here’s an excerpt from the UConn Today story released on June 3rd, 2025: “I love to travel meeting people, and I am very interested in […]
Evelyn Pazan (EUROBIZ) has been awarded a Benjamin Gilman scholarship, and we are proud and honored to share her post from LinkedIn: I am happy to announce that I have been selected as a Gilman Scholar by the U.S. Department of State for my upcoming study abroad program. This is a prestigious scholarship meant to […]
Laila Almotwaly, a dual PhD student in German Studies and Behavioral Neuroscience, has recently joined the NSF-funded TRANSdisciplinary Convergence in Educational Neuroscience Doctoral (TRANSCEND) program focused on transcending the present one-size-fits-all approach and personalizing learning. Her research addresses attention and memory work in real-world listening situations, specifically the brain’s ability to filter distractions and encode information. […]
On April 3rd, 2025, Erica Machulak, PhD, will hold a workshop on “Beyond the Book: Hustles for Humanists.” Dr. Machulak is the Founder of Hikma “to help researchers and entrepreneurs find new ways to engage with partners, collaborators and stakeholders.” The workshop features elements from the new book for hands-on integration with current projects and […]
Congratulations to Prof. Horakova who has recently published three articles, all related to her interests in postwar German literature and visual culture. The first one, which came out in September 2024, appears as a chapter in the volume Postsocialist Memory in Contemporary German Culture, edited by Michel Mallet, Maria Mayr, and Kristin Rebien and published […]
The College of Engineering has launched a new initiative that will benefit particularly students in the EUROTECH program: Engineers Around the World. What is it? We are sharing the programs FAQs right here:Questions (FAQs)What is the Engineers Around the World (EAW) program?Engineers Around the World (EAW) is a program facilitated by the Office of Experiential […]
“How can scholars, creatives, and others working in the humanities better communicate their work to the public? How can humanities communicators–like their science communicator colleagues–benefit from professional training for needed roles in education, the media, cultural and entertainment industries, non-profits, and elsewhere? And what new materials and tools can they invent for telling the humanities’ […]
Please join us on February 19th, 2025 in Susan Herbst Hall 236 for a presentation by PhD candidate Serafima Anontenko.
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