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 […]
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 […]
“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’ […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, CĂ©cil 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, […]
As an expert on intercultural awareness in applied linguistics, Prof. Wagner is adding another research accomplishment to her many international activities: she has taken on the co-editorship of a new book series with Springer, Plurilingual and Intercultural Epistemologies: Critical Research, Education and Civic Action. together with Manuela Guilherme, Charbel El-Hani, and Gunther Dietz. “This series invites […]
On Wednesday, November 29th, Dr. Martin Gössl joins the German Section to discuss “Embers of Fire: Queer/Heteronormative Power Conflicts in Austria and other Modern Societies” as part of our ongoing German Studies Colloquium Series. Dr. Gössl teaches at the Fachhochschule Johanneum in Graz, Austria, and has published a significant array of books and articles and […]
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