Following the success of the first “Germany on Campus” Intercultural Symposium and Company Expo, UConn Today features the dual degree students in EUROBIZ and EUROTECH and their great options for careers in local German companies: “Companies Look to UConn to Help Fill Global Workforce Shortage Sarah Worden is the senior director of human resources at […]
On November 14th, 2024, our first Intercultural Symposium and Company Expo successfully initiated sustainable engagement between five interconnected stakeholders: over 150 German companies located in Connecticut, the German Innovation and Research Institute in New York City, three of UConn’s schools (CLAS, ENGR, and BUS), most importantly the dual degree programs EUROBIZ and EUROTECH, and AdvanceCT, […]
“Fostering Interdisciplinary Intercultural Citizenship with Virtual Reality in a World Language Virtual Exchange Project” – that was the title of Prof. Wagner’s presentation at the 22nd Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Research conference in Japan. More information about her research is summarized below: Overview of the StudyThe United Nations has issued an urgent call for […]
What’s next in German Studies? Visit the new Study German Studies site and sign up for courses in Spring 2025, register for your dual or double degree and check out what’s going on on our instagram, with our study abroad options and events. Just as Daniel Leaf experienced, you never know what a degree in […]
On October 7 and 9, 2024, a two-day “AI Odyssey” event was hosted jointly by the Hartford Public Library and by UConn colleagues involved in CT-Baden-Württemberg’s HRRC’s Human Rights, Science & Tech Working Group. The aim was to explore the emancipatory potential of AI for students in marginalized communities in an effort to transcend digital […]
In September 2024, the Trans-Atlantic CT/BW HRRC, directed by Prof. Sebastian Wogenstein in German Studies and Prof. Shareen Hertel in Political Science, hosted an all-day workshop on the “Challenges of Corporate Sustainability and Due Diligence” in Berlin, Germany. Participants included representatives of German federal and state government, businesses, NGOs, and law firmsinvolved in related work, […]
The very first “Germany on Campus” Intercultural Symposium + Company Expo will take place November 14, 2024 at the Alumni Center. The Intercultural Symposium initiates sustainable engagement between five interconnected stakeholders: over 100 German companies located in Connecticut, the German Innovation and Research Institute in New York City, three of UConn’s schools (CLAS, ENGR, and […]
Dr. Isabell Sluka successfully completed her dissertation in July 2024. Her project is entitled “From a Postmigrant Society to Radical Diversity: (Re)Negotiating Germanness in the Digital Realm.” Written with a focus on German Media Studies and employing a variety of approaches, the thesis seeks to address the following issues: The question of what it means […]
Join us this Fall semester for the first Intercultural Symposium + Company Expo event featuring alums of our EUROBIZ and EUROTECH dual degree programs and representatives of over 100 German companies in Connecticut. More information coming soon!
The German Studies Kaffeestunde is back! Join us for a monthly get-together, listen to music, practice some German, meet new people and enjoy Kaffee, Kekse und Kuchen!
Luisa Neubauer is a youth climate justice activist and lead organizer of the German “Fridays for Future” climate movement. For over five years now, Luisa and Fridays for Future have brought hundreds of thousands of people to the streets. In 2022 TIME Magazine included her among the “100Next” leaders. In „Neubauer vs. Germany“ she and others […]
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: Joseph A. Palermo Oustanding Senior Scholars: Alyssa Weber The Lederer Prize: Aditya Makarla Honor Roll for Phi Beta Kappa: […]
For the second time the organizers of the Augsburg Literaturhaus, headed by Prof. Stefan Bronner, aka Dr. B, have planned a spectacle in the capital of contemporary pop literature. THE shortlist has just come out: Timon Karl Kaleyta with Healing, Daniel Borgeldt with Cheyenne, Charlotte Krafft with Marlow im Sand, Cécil Joyce Röski with Poussi, […]
Isotta Poggi is associate curator of photographs at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Her collecting interests focus on the cultural history of photography from the nineteenth century through contemporary, as a medium for documentary and artistic practice, and as a narrative tool in albums, photobooks, and artists’ books. In 2018 she co-curated the exhibition Promote, […]
Live Music and the Rise of the ‘Enormodome’, an article written by Ludovic Hunter-Tilney and published February 10, 2024, in the Financial Times starts with a question: “With hologram second acts, high-tech sound and light shows and the mushrooming of mega arenas, pop performance is entering a whole new era. But does it still count […]
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