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The American West in Cold War Eastern European Cinema: Transnational Agenda and Commentary on Race in DEFA's Indianerfilme Lecture, Film Screening, and Q&A with guest lecturer Dr. Mariana Ivanova, Asst. Professor of German, Miami University of Ohio 11:00 - 12:00  Lecture and light lunch: Miller Learning Center Room 205 3:30-5:30        Film screening followed by Q&A   Miller…


The American West in Cold War Eastern European Cinema: DEFA's Indianerfilme

Under the auspices of the Franklin College International Faculty Exchange Program, the Linguistics Department will host Dr. Lars Meyer from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. The visit includes a public lecture on February 20th at 4pm entitled "The Neural Oscillations of Language Processing: Examples from German." Dr. Meyer has a research collaboration at UGA with John Hale; Hale will…


Lecture: The Neural Oscillations of Language Processing

Navid Kermanis aktuelles Buch Entlang den Gräben ist vor dem Hintergrund der derzeitigen europäischen Krise(n) zu sehen, reflektiert aber auch die wechselvolle und häufig gewaltsame Geschichte Europas, insbesondere Ostmitteleuropas im 20. Jahrhundert. Er stellt die Frage nach dem Zusammenhang zwischen dem Konzept "Europa", also auch der Möglichkeit europäischer Identität und der Erinnerung an diese Geschichte. Dabei weist sein Text interessante…


A lecture in German by Dr. Andreas Böhn, UGA Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor

On November 8, GSS welcomes Dr. Hyoun-A Joo, of the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Tech, for a Germanic linguistics talk centering on a group of heritage German speakers in Kansas, and discussing linguistic and cultural changes of their German heritage. This talk is part of the 2018-19  Faculty Research Seminar Series on Cultural and Linguistic Identity in the Americas:  Immigration, Migration, Modernity  organized by Drs.…


German Linguistics Talk by Dr. Hyoun-A Joo

The lecture, given by Dr. Cornelia Wilhelm, will explore the changing perceptions of “diversity” and “cultural difference” in Germany and will show how they were central in the construction of “self “ and “other” throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries affecting minorities such as Jews, Poles, and others, ultimately culminating in a blind and destructive racism, nationalism, the Holocaust and World War II.  After 1945 the two…


Diversity in Germany: A Historical Perspective

The ethnic, religious, and cultural “otherness” of migrants has been mostly visualized by means of the female body. For example, the “Kopftuchmädchen” (“headscarf-girl”) became a protagonist within the anti-immigration discourse in Germany over the past ten years. Since the so-called “refugee crisis” in 2015, however, images of Arab men have been increasingly circulating within the European and German media landscape. While aiming to illustrate…


Dr. Peter Rehberg Talk

Joseph Salmons, University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be giving a talk on patterns within language shift, drawing on examples from American communities. 


Babel in Reverse: Toward a Theory of Language Shift

Historian Harry Binkow will be giving a talk about the history of the Romanov family and what happened to them.


Harry Binkow Talk on the Russian Royal Family

The Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies would like to invite you all to join us on Tuesday, September 5th, for a lecture by Dr. Mark Gelber, from Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Dr. Gelber’s lecture is titled, “The Stefan Zweig Renaissance and the World of Yesterday” and will explore potential reasons for such a renaissance and whether new insight to Stefan Zweig’s work can supplant the long-standing views already in place. Dr. Gelber is…


The Stefan Zweig Revival and the World of Yesterday

  Ulrich Woelk is an award-winning author from Berlin, Germany. Since publishing his debut novel, Freigang (1990), which was awarded the Aspekte Literaturpreis, Woelk has written ten novels, one of which, Die letzte Vorstellung, was turned into the award-winning film Mord am Meer (2005). Ulrich Woelk has also written several plays, radio plays, short stories, and essays, as well as the libretto of an opera about Wernher von Braun, a…


An Evening with the Author: Ulrich Woelk

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