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, Cécil 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 […]
On Tuesday, September 12th, Dr. Sonja Kreibich, the newly appointed Consul General of Germany, visited UConn for the first time. The Boston Consulate’s LinkedIn page reports: UConn is educating the next generation of global citizens through its impressive array of opportunities and exchanges with Germany. Through UConn’s Baden-Württemberg – Connecticut Partnership, EuroTech and EuroBiz, students […]
On October 3rd, 2023, Prof. Christina Gerhardt from the University of Hawai’i will join us to talk about her new book Sea Change: Sea Change weaves together cartography and geography, art, short texts and poetry to share the histories and cultures of islands, centering the voices of islanders, predominantly but not exclusively of Black Caribbean and […]
Exchanging Storrs for Vienna: Joscha Jelitzki will spend the Spring 2024 semester in Austria’s capital to continue his dissertation research supported by a Franz Werfel Stipend: “The Franz Werfel Scholarship is an excellence program of Austria’s Agency for Education and Internationalization for the promotion of research and teaching in the field of Austrian literature, scientific […]
In “I’m So Sorry, English is not my First Language” Robert Zatryb, a PhD Candidate in German Studies and Applied Linguistics shares his strong support of multilingual writers who often find themselves in positions of having to excuse their non-English backgrounds. Quite to the contrary, Zatryb argues, we should all support their expertise: “I come […]
Prof. Manuela Wagner adds two keynote presentations, “Renewing, Reenergizing, and Reigniting Language Education: Our Future Depends on Intercultural Citizens” (Pacific Northwest Council for Languages) and “Teaching for Intercultural Citizenship: Why? How? and Lessons Learned” (Boston Area Pedagogy Conference) to her significant national and international reputation. The first keynote addresses developing intercultural citizenship units:
On Friday, February 17th, a group of EUROBIZ students, accompanied by Prof. Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, the Co-Director of the program, visited Legrand in West Hartford. The excursion offered not only an exploration of the company, but also a wonderful opportunity to meet a variety of managers and employees and to glimpse career opportunities for the future. […]
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