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, […]
The very first “Germany on Campus” Intercultural Symposium + Company Expo will take place November 14, 2024 at the Alumni Center. The Intercultural Symposium initiates sustainable engagement between five interconnected stakeholders: over 100 German companies located in Connecticut, the German Innovation and Research Institute in New York City, three of UConn’s schools (CLAS, ENGR, and […]
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 […]
April and May, once again, is award season, and we are thrilled to celebrate our German Studies students with the following awards issued by the Department of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages and by the Baden-Württemberg Exchange Program: Joseph A. Palermo Oustanding Senior Scholars: Alyssa Weber The Lederer Prize: Aditya Makarla Honor Roll for Phi Beta Kappa: […]
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, […]
Live Music and the Rise of the ‘Enormodome’, an article written by Ludovic Hunter-Tilney and published February 10, 2024, in the Financial Times starts with a question: “With hologram second acts, high-tech sound and light shows and the mushrooming of mega arenas, pop performance is entering a whole new era. But does it still count […]
As she is about to graduate, Guerlina Philogène, freshly returned from her intership in Germany, receives the prestigious Thomas R. Pickering fellowship for graduate study: “The Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Fellowship Program is a program funded by the U.S. Department of State, administered by Howard University, that attracts and prepares outstanding young people […]
The German Studies Curriculum will be enriched by three new courses designed for the Common Curriculum: Prof. Anna Horakova developed GERM 3210W Engineering Texts: German Culture and Technology in the 20th and 21st Centuries (TOI 1 and TOI 2). This course “explores German-language literacy and artistic reflections on technology as well as authentic texts by […]
Dr. Anna Horakova joined us last semester as Assistant Professor in the German Studies section. Here is what she shared with us about her background and work: “I grew up in Czechoslovakia / the Czech Republic, and have lived and studied in several countries, including in the U.K., U.S., Germany, and France. While conducting research […]
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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