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Feb. 4, 2013
The Department of German Studies is excited to announce its participation in the new Minor in Intercultural Studies offered by the College of Humanities / School of International Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. The Minor in “Intercultural…
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Jan. 13, 2013
Prof. Albrecht Classen’s latest book Early History of the Southwest through the Eyes of German-Speaking Jesuit Missionaries - A Transcultural Experience in the Eighteenth Century has just been published by Rowman. The history of the United States…
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Dec. 11, 2012
Alexander Ganz’s recently published article “Mircopublishing as a Tool for Collaboration and Socialization” in Fremdsprachen und Hochschule (Germany) offers insight on various micropublishing tools – blogs, boards, wikis, etc. – and their use in a…
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Dec. 11, 2012
Prof. Albrecht Classen’s latest book Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Mental-Historical Investigations of Basic Human Problems and Social Responses published by De Gruyter addresses the principal that all societies are…
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Nov. 23, 2012
Sitting in his small office stocked wall-to-wall with bookshelves full of textbooks, journals and critical editions of medieval and early modern texts, University of Arizona professor Albrecht Classen was reading a letter from the Carnegie…
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Nov. 21, 2012
Profs. Chantelle Warner and David Gramling are happy to announce the launch and inaugural issue of Critical Multilingualism Studies (cms.arizona.edu), a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of scholarship on multilingualism, monolingualism, and…
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Nov. 5, 2012
Prof. David Gramling's recently released article in New German Critique (117, Vol. 39) considers the multilingual situation of concentration camp inmates during the Third Reich. The forced intermingling of scores of European languages produced an…
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Oct. 12, 2012
Prof. David Gramling's new article on the film When We Leave (dir. Feo Aladag, 2010) has just been published in the anthology Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium (Ed. Sabine Hake and Barbara Mennel, Berghahn Books). Gramling views recent…
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Oct. 7, 2012
For the UA's work in the area of the arts and humanities, especially around teaching, research and international impact, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings has placed the University among the top 50 institutions in the world.
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Oct. 2, 2012
At long last, the re-rendered, re-mastered videos from the April 2012 Multilingual, 2.0? International Symposium at the University of Arizona are available free and in full on the German Studies Department's Youtube page. Here you can (re-)watch…