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 […]
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 […]
Laila Almotwaly joins TRANSdisciplinary Convergence in Educational Neuroscience Doctoral (TRANSCEND) program
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. […]
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.
Prof. Anke Finger and Dr. Julie Shoults (PhD 2015) publish collection on Women in German Expressionism
While the scholarship of German Expressionism has marked German literary studies for most of the 20th and 21st centuries, the focus – remarkably – has stayed with male writers. This new collection, sparked by conversations started in a seminar, focuses on women authors and artists: This collection, for the first time, explores women’s self-conceptions and […]
Florian White (PhD Candidate) receives LCL Graduate Award for Excellence in Teaching
Every Spring, we are delighted to celebrate our graduate students in the areas of teaching and research, and this Spring 2023, Florian White, a PhD Candidate in German Studies, much deserves this recognition. He has shown outstanding dedication and initiative in his classes and for his students, and he has supported the German Studies community […]
PhD Candidate Isabell Sluka receives Summer Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Isabell Sluka, a PhD candidate in German Studies, has been awarded the Summer Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship by the UConn Graduate School to pursue her research on “From a Postmigrant Society to Radical Diversity: (Re)Negotiating Germanness in the Digital Realm”: “I am humbled and grateful to have been chosen as a recipient of the Summer Doctoral […]
Joscha Jelitzki (PhD candidate) receives LCL Graduate Research Award
Joscha Jelitzki received this year’s Graduate Research Award from the Department of Literatures Cultures and Languages for his excellent work bridging German Studies and Hebrew and Judaic Studies: “I’m humbled to receive this year’s Excellence in Research Award by the LCL German Section. It signifies how much the section and the department value and support […]
Human Rights and Global Challenges HRRC Conference May 2022
Prof. Katharina von Hammerstein (Emerita) and Prof. Sebastian Wogenstein organized a 2-day Human Rights conference concurrent with a delegation visit from Baden-Württemberg in May 2022. The conference showcases new research on geopolitics, environment and migration, and brings together scholars from a variety of countries and institutions. For a detailed schedule, please check the website for […]
Isabell Sluka (PhD Candidate) wins prestigious Greenhouse Studios Graduate Assistantship
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, in collaboration with Greenhouse Studios | Scholarly Communications Design at UConn (greenhousestudios.uconn.edu), has awarded Isabell Sluka the 2022-24 Graduate Student Assistantship in Digital Humanities. This assistantship program is intended for individuals committed to the development of the field and to supporting the inclusion of minoritized populations, including people of color, Indigenous peoples, […]
German Studies is awarded CLAS Grant for “Decolonizing Area Studies: Towards Intercultural Citizenship and Social Justice”
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences issued a call for proposals in the summer for a “NEW CLAS GRANTS INITIATIVE: Anti-Racist Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Workplace Climate.” The College awarded four grants to interdisciplinary projects across CLAS. One of the grants was awarded to three members of the German Studies Section, Anke Finger, Isabell Sluka and Manuela Wagner, […]
Writer Olga Grjasnowa visits Graduate Seminar on German-Jewish Literature and Human Rights
This April, the renowned writer Olga Grjasnowa and actor, playwright and director Ayham Majid Agha visited virtually a graduate seminar in German literature taught by Professor Sebastian Wogenstein. Grjasnowa’s critically acclaimed novels All Russians Love Birch Trees and City of Jasmin were a huge success in Germany and the US, as well as in many other countries. It was […]
Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German: Teaching German Studies in a Global Context
This special issue of Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, published by the American Association of Teachers of German, features articles on Teaching German Studies in a Global Context with contributions by i.a. Anke Finger (UConn) and Niko Tracksdorf (UConn alumnus and Assistant Professor of German at University of Rhode Island). The issue is co-edited by Nicole Coleman […]
Julie Shoults (Ph.D. 2015) elected to MLA Executive Council
Julie Shoults (Ph.D. 2015) was just elected to the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association. Dr. Shoults teaches at Muhlenburg College and has continued to work with UConn German Studies faculty, in addition to becoming very active in the profession beyond teaching and research. Her latest book publication is Women Writing War (2018), and […]
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