During the second week of May, right around graduation, you could hear a lot of German spoken around campus: UConn was celebrating the 30-year partnership between the states of Baden-Württemberg and Connecticut with a week-long, expertly curated set of events that included an honorary doctorate for Minister Bauer, visits to local and regional sights, company […]

The German Section is very proud to announce Christine Higgins from Wilton High School as a recipient of the ECE Instructor Award for Excellence in Course Instruction for the 2021-2022! Ms. Higgins who joined the UConn Early College Experience program several years ago has celebrated numerous successes as a German teacher and maintains both a […]

Organized by the Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Consortium (HRRC) and co-sponsored by the Human Rights Institute, the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut Global Affairs, and the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and Art, and the German Studies Colloquium, Prof. Köhler, Chair of German Literature at the University of Tübingen in Gremany will present […]

Angenommen, published in 1989 in German and this April available in English for the first time, proposes twenty-two scenarios that invite readers to create accompanying images or clips, as author Vilém Flusser advocates. Flusser (1920-1991) was a Czech-Brazilian media philosopher who wrote widely across many different topics and in four different languages. Anke Finger, a […]

Just out now: “From Nation States to Communities of Interest: Solidarity and Human Rights Declarations in Wolfgang Fischer`s Styx,” written by Isabell Sluka (PhD candidate in German Studies). The article is published in a special issue of Postcolonial Interventions: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. VII, Issue 1 (January 2022). According to the author, the […]

Prof. Stefan Bronner, together with April von Stauffenberg, translated Rafael Horzon’s “Das Weisse Buch”/The White Book, due out this November from Suhrkamp. Here’s a short description from the publisher’s site: “Rafael Horzon – furniture magnate, original genius, and Apple Cake Tycoon. As a failed student and failed postal service delivery man, he succeeds over the […]

October 2021 marks an important month for Nicole Coleman (PhD 2015), Assistant Professor of German at Wayne State University. Her book is published by the University of Michigan Press, a work that is bound to contribute substantially to the intersection of human rights and intercultural literature. Here is more information from the publisher’s website: The […]

Juntao Li, a PhD candidate in German Studies, has been awarded the Summer Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship by the UConn Graduate School to pursue his research on “Language Ecology in Third Language (L3) Acquisition: Case Studies of German L3 Learners with Chinese as an First Language and English as an Second Language.” In his dissertation, he […]

Three UConn faculty followed the invitation of the Volkshochschule Reutlingen to discuss the considerable variety of honey and bees in different languages and cultural histories. From the etymological origins in German and Latin, for example, to the Hebrew and Judaic cultural meanings of honey in religious rituals, everyday life and food, to honey and bees […]

On May 21, 2021, the 1-day virtual symposium brought together scholars, teachers, faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students from within and beyond UConn to explore and examine theories and discussions started during the first year of this initiative within LCL. We shared ideas and began building practices on awareness-raising and de-centering whiteness in curricula and classrooms. Former presenters, José Aldemar Álvarez Valencia, Nicole Coleman, Dwight Lewis, Ervin Malakaj and Terry Osborn helped facilitate the two workshops, following the […]

With the support of UConn’s Global Experiental Learning program, Prof. Friedemann Weidauer and Inga Ploetzl, of the Experiential Global Learning Office, were able to bring students together when COVID prevented them from traveling: German – English Tandem Project “Students from Connecticut, who plan to study at a university in BW, teamed up with one or […]

Check out our brand new German Studies youtube channel with MentorInnen videos from some of our German Studies majors, full of tips and good ideas based on their studies, travels and learning German at UConn for several years; talks from the “Decolonizing Area Studies” initiative; and a new project entitled “Passionate Humanities, spearheaded by Prof. […]

Shaping the Digital Dissertation: Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities is out this May 2021, co-edited by Virginia Kuhn and Anke Finger. As the inaugural director of Digital Humanities and Media Studies at the UConn Humanities Institute, Prof. Finger has long been involved with digital scholarship at the graduate level. She created a graduate […]

As part of Prof. von Hammerstein’s promotion to Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, she will present her research in the Provost’s distinguished speaker series, an exceptional set of talks by the most outstanding faculty of the university. Her presentation takes place April 24th, 2021 at 4pm, and she will speak on “Voices of Genocide: From […]