Prof. Anna Horakova Presents on Marginalized Voices in East Germany at the 2025 Women in German Conference (WiG) at UMass Amherst
At this year’s Women in German (WiG) Conference, held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Prof. Horakova took part in a roundtable moderated by guest speaker, Katharina Warda, a sociologist, filmmaker, writer, and literary scholar. Warda’s work explores race, class, and memory in postwar and post-reunification Germany. The roundtable featured lively exchanges on decolonial and intersectional […]
Prof. Anke Finger joins panel on AI Literacy at Humanities Institute International Symposium
What do we really mean when we talk about AI? At UConn’s Humanities Institute scholars from the U.S. and the International University of Rabat, Morocco, came together to explore that question — not through code, but through culture, language, and meaning. Among the organizers was Prof. Anke Finger (German Studies, UConn), whose work bridges technology, […]
HRRC-Sponsored: The Nuremberg Trials After 80 Years: Where Does International Criminal Law Stand Today?
Tuesday, November 4 | 12:30 PM – 1:45 PMHeritage Room, Homer Babbidge Library, 4th FloorIn-person (lunch provided) & Online Eighty years after the Nuremberg Trials, Professor Christoph Safferling traces their enduring influence on international criminal law, the evolution of legal accountability for state crimes, and states’ shifting relationship to this defining moment in legal history. About this Event […]
Prof. Anke Finger delivers keynote lecture at Conference on German Expressionism in London (UK)
German Expressionism, a multi-art movement lasting from 1905 (Die Brücke) to well into the late 1920s, has experienced numerous centennial celebrations over the last two decades. This September, the first conference identifying connections between “Expressionism and Colonialism” and focusing primarily on literary Expressionism took place at the University of London (Goldsmiths), organized by Profs. Frank […]
First German Studies Colloquium presented by PhD Candidates Christina Meier and Elisabeth Scharnhorst on 9/30/25
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 […]
Dr. Florian White joins German Studies as new Assistant Professor in Residence
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. Sebastian Wogenstein publishes new book on Songs from the Vilna Ghetto
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 […]
German Studies Colloquium with Serafima Antonenko (PhD Candidate) on February 19th, 2025
Please join us on February 19th, 2025 in Susan Herbst Hall 236 for a presentation by PhD candidate Serafima Anontenko.
HRRC Human Rights, Science and Technology Group participates in AI Odyssey with the Hartford Library
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 […]
Intercultural Symposium + Company Expo November 14, 2024
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 […]
Prof. Anke Finger interviewed by the Financial Times about Mega Pop Concerts as Total Artworks
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 […]
Three German Studies faculty win New Course Grants for the Common Curriculum
The German Studies Curriculum will be enriched by three new courses designed for the Common Curriculum: Prof. Anna Horakova developed GERM 3210W Engineering Texts: German Culture and Technology in the 20th and 21st Centuries (TOI 1 and TOI 2). This course “explores German-language literacy and artistic reflections on technology as well as authentic texts by […]
Prof. Anna Horakova joins German Studies Faculty
Dr. Anna Horakova joined us last semester as Assistant Professor in the German Studies section. Here is what she shared with us about her background and work: “I grew up in Czechoslovakia / the Czech Republic, and have lived and studied in several countries, including in the U.K., U.S., Germany, and France. While conducting research […]
Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium receives second Grant to continue through 2026
Prof. Sebastian Wogenstein and Prof. Shareen Hertel (Political Science) won a second grant for the Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium (HRRC). It is a major grant with funding for three years, from July 2023 to June 2026, amounting to over $500,000 combined from the Baden-Württemberg Ministry for Science, Research and Art and support from UConn’s Global […]
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