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 […]
We are celebrating the EUROTECH program’s 30th anniversary, and we invited our alums to participate by reflecting on the program. Here’s our third portrait of William “Cliff” Birtwell (’11): 1) When you think back on your EUROTECH studies at UConn in 2011, what stands out most for you, in your memory? I remember developing interesting […]
We are celebrating the EUROTECH program’s 30th anniversary, and we invited our alums to participate by reflecting on the program. Here’s our second portrait of Aaditya Vyas (’13):
We are celebrating the EUROTECH program’s 30th anniversary, and we invited our alums to participate by reflecting on the program. Here’s our first portrait of Nicole Henry (’16): 1) When you think back on your EUROTECH studies at UConn 2016, what stands out most for you, in your memory? When I think back on the EUROTECH […]
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 […]
Prof. Sebastian Wogenstein and Prof. Shareen Hertel (Political Science) won a second grant for the Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium (HRRC). It is a major grant with funding for three years, from July 2023 to June 2026, amounting to over $500,000 combined from the Baden-Württemberg Ministry for Science, Research and Art and support from UConn’s Global […]
The semester has barely begun, and the 30th-anniversary celebration of the EUROTECH program is already making a splash: here’s the new video, designed and edited by the Engineering College’s Chris Larosa, featuring many of current and just graduated students. Stay tuned for more events!
While the scholarship of German Expressionism has marked German literary studies for most of the 20th and 21st centuries, the focus – remarkably – has stayed with male writers. This new collection, sparked by conversations started in a seminar, focuses on women authors and artists: This collection, for the first time, explores women’s self-conceptions and […]
April and May 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: The Joseph A. Palermo Award for Outstanding Senior Scholars: Daniel Leaf The Marlis Zeller Cambon Scholarship: Josh Ellenberg The Excellence in German […]
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