Start your German Studies adventure and sign up for GERM1001 this Spring 2026
Ready to become an intercultural citizen and apply your German knowledge to a wide variety of activities and goals? Join GERM 1001 this Spring and acquire crucial skill sets with ICit Projects and using AI ethically, creatively and responsibly in your courses and beyond. Sign up now: click on the first button here! Choose your […]
German Club now meets regularly on Tuesdays from 5-6pm
Join the German Club every Tuesday from 5-6pm in Susan Herbst Hall 301 for games, baking and a whole lot of other activities! On 10/14 enjoy popcorn with “Apfelkuchengeschmack” and “Taco Katze Ziege Käse Pizza” – no idea what that means? Come check it out 🚴🏽♂️
Second Kaffeestunde to haunt you October 28 – best costume wins a prize 🏆
Join us for for the first Fall 2025 Meeting of our German Club
Come and plan events and activities for the German-speaking community, have fun and enjoy getting to know each other!
Please join us for our first Kaffeestunde of the Fall Semester on Tuesday, September 9th, 3-5pm
“Human Rights in the Balance: Safeguarding Social and Environmental Sustainability” – HRRC Conference in Freiburg, Germany
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 […]
Dr. Erica Machulak offers Workshop April 3rd on “Beyond the Book: Hustles for Humanists”
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 […]
Join us for the next Kaffeestunde on March 13th, 2025
Prof. Anna Horakova publishes 3 articles on Postwar German Literature and Visual Culture
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 […]
Engineers Around the World Program Launch
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 […]
Prof. Anke Finger part of Team awarded Mellon Grant to support Center for Humanities Communication
“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’ […]
UConn Today highlights Recruiting of Dual Degree Majors for German Companies
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 […]
“Germany on Campus” connects Dual-Degree EUROTECH and EUROBIZ Students with German Companies in Connecticut
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, […]
Prof. Manuela Wagner presents talk on VR and Intercultural Citizenship in Tokyo
“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 […]
