This June 2025, several German Studies faculty and colleagues from other departments and partner universities will present talks at “Human Rights in the Balance: Safeguarding Social and Environmental Sustainability”, a new Human Rights and Research Consortium conference taking place in Freiburg, Germany: “On the occasion of its 4th conference, the Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium […]
On April 3rd, 2025, Erica Machulak, PhD, will hold a workshop on “Beyond the Book: Hustles for Humanists.” Dr. Machulak is the Founder of Hikma “to help researchers and entrepreneurs find new ways to engage with partners, collaborators and stakeholders.” The workshop features elements from the new book for hands-on integration with current projects and […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
“We live in a time where the loudest, and often most caustic, voices appear to garner the lion’s share of national and international attention. When divisiveness gets rewarded and polarization is often the result, it is critical to demonstrate that there are other paths that we can take toward a more productive national and international […]
Katharina von Hammerstein, Professor of German Studies and member of UConn’s Human Rights Institute, was interviewed by Courthouse News on the current Herero and Nama lawsuit against Germany at the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York for the article “For Victims of a Little-Known Genocide, a Long Journey to Justice.” As a scholar of […]
Bettina Matthias, Professor of German at Middlebury College and Director of the well-known Middlebury summer school, presented her research on hotel studies on February 6th, highlighting an under-analyzed section in travel literatures with a talk entitled “Narratives from Rented Rooms: The Literary Fascination with Hotels and Their Dwellers in Early 20th Century Germany and Austria.” […]
A fun filled evening of discussion, insights, critical perspectives, and generative dialogue on interdisciplinary work for developing intercultural citizenship at different educational levels. Professor Manuela Wagner, German Section of the Department of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (UConn), Professor Fabiana Cardetti of the Mathematics Department (UConn) and Professor Emeritus Michael Byram (Durham University) presented the theoretical […]
Fresh off the press: Prof. Bronner’s edited (with Björn Weyand) collection of articles on Christian Kracht: “Every new work by the Swiss author Christian Kracht further expands the topographical range of his literary settings, which gradually extend to encompass the entire globe. In this sense, Kracht’s work epitomizes world literature in a contemporary, provocative way: […]
Dr. Stefan Bronner joins us from Concordia University in Montréal as Assistant Professor in Residence in the German Studies Section. Here’s what he shared with us about his background and work: “I completed my Dr. phil. in Germanistik at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg. My doctoral research led to the publication of the first monograph on the intensely discussed […]
Britta Meredith, Ph.D. candidate in German Studies, just published her article on sensory perception in one of Hans Fallada’s most famous novels in Volume 23 of the scholarly journal Focus on German Studies. Congratulations!
On April 27th, 22 German Studies students received award stipends for education abroad from the State of Baden-Württemberg, the German state’s regular and very generous contribution to the sister exchange between Connecticut and the South-Westernmost part of Germany. For a full list of awards, please see the program (FINAL PROGRAM DRAFT_2018_SPrev) that highlights our most outstanding […]
Friedemann Weidauer has an article forthcoming in the Brecht Yearbook (Vol. 43, 2018) on “Catharsis? Brecht, Chaplin and Empathy in Film and Theater.” The articles explores parallels between recent research in cognitive psychology on the reception of art and Brecht’s assessment of the role of empathy in his method of emotionally ‘distancing’ the spectator from the events on […]
Frontiers in Undergraduate Research is the annual poster exhibition of student research, scholarship, and creative projects. Frontiers is a chance for students to share their work with the UConn community and with visitors to campus. Katherine, a EUROTECH student and the recipient of a 2017 SHARE grant for a project collaboration with Prof. Anke Finger and […]
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