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Michał Głuszkowski, a visiting scholar working on a research project titled Slavs in Georgia, USA: Short- and Long-Term Family Language Policy in Diaspora, will give a personal eyewitness account in Russian on the refugee response in Poland. Presented by the UGA Russian Flagship Program and UGA Russian Club. Please note, the lecture will be in Russian.


Talk by Michał Głuszkowski

Jeffrey Schneider is Assoc. Professor of German and Chair of the German Studies Department at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. His teaching interests include language courses; drama; literature and culture from the turn of the century; popular culture; and lesbian, bisexual and gay studies. Together with Silke von der Emde, he developed an online German-language learning environment called MOOssiggang, which is currently used in the…


The Obscure Object of Desire: Uniform Fetishism & Male Prostitution by Soldiers in Imperial Germany

Join us for a reading, discussion, and screening of film clips with Thomas Pletzinger, author of the biography on German/American basketball legend Dirk Nowitzki: „The Great Nowitzki - Basketball and the Meaning of Life” (W.W. Norton, 2022)   Mr. Pletzinger is a Berlin-based German novelist, journalist, sportswriter, and translator.  He studied American Studies in Hamburg and Creative Writing at the German…


The Great Nowitzki: The making of the book and documentary

As language shift progresses, a heritage language can change its orientation from communicative to symbolic for the heritage language community. The change toward a broadening of the symbolic uses of the language is a hallmark of the post-vernacular stage of language shift. This presentation explores how Pennsylvania Dutch is used among non-sectarians (non-Amish / Mennonites) in southeastern Pennsylvania today. Dr. Brown will share in a virtual…


Last Stages of Language Shift: Pennsylvania Dutch as a Heritage Language

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

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