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Aug. 28, 2017
This is the first major study to apply ecocritical concepts and theoretical notions for the study of medieval literature focusing on the role of water. The extensive introductory chapter looks at the significance of water globally in the past and…
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As we are gearing up for the Humanities Festival, we're looking back to past talks by our professors
Aug. 14, 2017
Watch the talks from previous years:
Humanities Week 2016 with Prof. Jacobs: Fatherland & Mother Tongue: German-Jewish Identity in the 21st Century
Humanities Week 2015 with Prof. Gramling: Man vs. Machine: Translation in the Digital Age
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Aug. 14, 2017
Did you miss our 2017 Writer-in-Residence Christopher Kloeble? You can watch his reading here.
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Aug. 14, 2017
Bach's "Coffee Cantata" was part of the 2014 homecoming celebration of the German Studies Department and the COH alumnus of the year, Eric Baker, who graduated from our department in 1984, went on to get his MA and JD and is now working in Manhattan…
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Aug. 14, 2017
Geschichten vom Fliehen und Ankommen | Stories of Escaping and Arriving: A Project of the Department of German Studies under the direction of Dr. Simone Seym, D.E.A., with the students of GER 416 (Spring 2017).
Performed on April 20, 2017 in the…
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Aug. 14, 2017
"Freiheit mit Sporen" is the title of Christopher Kloeble's article in Die Zeit. Read it here.
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Aug. 14, 2017
"...in der first street, im gelben haus, hausen germanisten..."
Michael Speier, our Writer-in-Residence in 2016, wrote a poem about his time in Tucson that you can read here.
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June 13, 2017
A translation project by a group of undergraduates and our PhD student Patrick Ploschnitzki that was conducted under the guidance of Dr. Albrecht Classen two years ago has appeared in print this May. Congratulations to everyone involved!
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May 31, 2017
An article by Dr. Warner and her co-author, Hsin-I Chen, recently appeared in the journal Language Learning and Technology. The article looks at multilingual users of Facebook and considers how online interactions can be used to help learners…
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Feb. 23, 2017
Dr. Gramling is featured together with five other academics in the Times Higher Education on the question "Do we need modern language graduates in a globalised world?"