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 […]
Tandem Project overcomes COVID limits
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 […]
New German Studies youtube channel features videos from Capstone students, talks and more
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 – a new book co-edited by Prof. Anke Finger
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 […]
Prof. Katharina von Hammerstein part of Provost’s Distinguished Speaker Series
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 […]
Impuls Deutsch 2 out in April 2021
Exciting developments in the German Studies textbook arena: Impuls Deutsch 2 is coming out in April 2021, following the successful release of Impuls Deutsch 1 by Klett. The series, co-authored by Prof. Friedemann Weidauer and by two recent Ph.D. students from the German Studies program, Drs. Nicole Coleman (Wayne State University) and Niko Tracksdorf (University […]
Dr. Nicole Coleman and Dr. José Aldemar Álvarez Valencia on “‘We are all more alike than not’ – Moving Beyond Universalism for Anti-Racist Pedagogies in the Literature Classroom” and “Doing research with university Indigenous students: From ‘rationalizing the decolonial to feeling the decolonial’”
On March 16, 2021, the second double lecture within our “Decolonizing Area Studies” series took place online, with great interest from different groups and constituencies. For more information about this series and the project, please visit the “Decolonizing Area Studies” webpage. Nicole Coleman is Assistant Professor of German at Wayne State University, where she teaches […]
Phonetik zum Anfassen – Ausspracheübungen für Präsenz- und Onlineunterricht
Aussprache ist das Stiefkind im Fremdsprachenunterricht und folgt in Lehrbüchern zumeist einem Nachsprechmuster, das für Zweit- oder Drittsprachler nur schwer nachvollziehbar ist. Dabei fallen Unregelmäßigkeiten in Artikulation und Prosodie bei Zuhörern oft schwerer ins Gewicht als Grammatikfehler. In diesem Kolloquium wollen wir uns mit den größten Ausspracheschwierigkeiten des Deutschen beschäftigen. Dabei ist von besonderem Interesse, […]
Double lecture on “Decolonizing Area Studies” with Drs. Ervin Malakaj and Terry Osborn in The Daily Campus
The first double lecture event on February 16th, 2021, within the Decolonizing Area Studies initiative, hosting two experts in the field, Drs. Ervin Malakaj and Terry Osborn, was featured in the Daily Campus edition from February 17th, 2021: “CLAS anti-racist education initiative hosts double lecture on the decolonization of language and culture studies.” Lucie Turkle […]
Dr. Ervin Malakaj and Dr. Terry Osborn on “Just Futures” and “Foreignness and Decolonization”
Please join us February 16, 2021 at 4pm to participate in a double lecture from Drs. Ervin Malakaj and Terry Osborn. For more information and to register, please visit the Decolonizing Area Studies site. Ervin Malakaj is Assistant Professor of German Studies and affiliate faculty in the Institute for European Studies at the University of […]
Dr. Niko Tracksdorf, UConn German Studies Alumnus, earns Nelson Brooks Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Culture from ACTFL
Dr. Niko Tracksforf (PhD German Studies, 2017) has been teaching at the University of Rhode Island for 4 years. He was recently honored for his trailblazing work on the textbook series Impuls Deutsch – two UConn and UConn-affiliated German Studies scholars, Prof. Friedemann Weidauer and Dr. Nicole Coleman of Wayne State University (PhD German Studies, […]
University of Connecticut/University of Bonn Symposium on “Radical Futures”
The symposium brings together researchers from Germany and the US to discuss both the future of media and form(at)s of imagination/ imaginaries in the 21st century. Central to the discussion is the role of knowledge of the future for the imagination of digital media in a variety of potential social contexts. How can our imagination […]
Dr. Ngondi Kamatuka: “No Final Resting Place”
No Final Resting Place: Narratives of My People. The Ovaherero Genocide. Please join us February 11, 2021, for the Zoom presentation about the first genocide of the 20th century — in the former colony of German Southwest Africa, today’s Namibia — and its aftermath. Dr. Ngondi Kamatuka President of the Association of the Ovaherero Genocide […]
New Baden-Württemberg / Connecticut Tandem Project
The BW-CT EXCHANGE PROGRAM has launched another initiative during the pandemic, helping students connect across the Atlantic to learn and collaborate together before they start their experience abroad. Here’s Education Abroad’s news announcement: “On January 28th, more than 20 students from UConn, Wesleyan University, and Southern Connecticut State University met with their counterparts from five […]
Human Rights in Times of Crisis – CT/BW Human Rights Research Consortium Conference
November 2020 marked the beginnings of international encounters and research discussion within the brand-new consortium on Human Rights. Organized by the directors, Profs. Sebastian Wogenstein and Katharina von Hammerstein, it brought together scholars from many different arenas. From the UCONN Today article: “The idea is to build an intellectual community where we can work together,” […]