Congratulations to the following German majors! James Sit, a double major in German and French, studied in Berlin last summer then enrolled in a program through SAO for Paris this Fall. He decided…
Michelle Reyes and Helga Kauf-Berman were honored at the 17th annual LAS Recognition Dinner. Ms. Reyes, a Ph.D. student in Germanic Studies,received an award for her research scholarship and her benefactor, Helga Kauf-Berman,…
The German Language Society of Chicago’s first dinner program of the season was held under the motto “Never Forget” on November 13, 2012 at the Metropolitan Club in Chicago. Consul General Christian Brecht…
For the second year, Sara Hall is chairing the Chicago Film Seminar, which convenes faculty and graduate students in film, television and media studies from academic institutions in the greater Chicago area throughout…
Sara Hall’s essay “May 1931: With Premiere of M, a Gala Hit Becomes a Cultural Controversy” has just been published in A New History of German Cinema, edited by Jennifer M. Kapczynski and…
Patrick Fortmann, Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, edited a collection of essays on Georg Büchner, which came out in August 2012. Further information and a picture of the cover can be…
Announcing the German Studies Undergraduate Conference Indiana University, Bloomington Nov. 30 – Dec. 1, 2012 An opportunity for promising undergraduates to present a 15- to 20- minute paper on any aspect of German…
Jeffrey Saba, an undergraduate double-major in German and Anthropology, was awarded a Flaherty Scholarship from the Honors College to support study abroad at the Humboldt University in Berlin for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Germanic Studies Ph.D. student Adrian Chubb has an essay, entitled “Public Sphere Pluralism in 1960’s West Germany,” forthcoming in the book Unsettled 1968 in the Troubled Present: Revisiting the 50 Years of Discussion from East…