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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…
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Sept. 30, 2012
The Department of German Studies is pleased to announce the release of Professor Chantelle Warner's new book The Pragmatics of Literary Testimony: Authenticity Effects in German Social Autobiographies, which just appeared with Routledge.
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Sept. 9, 2012
Join Professor Albrecht Classen and M.A. student Martina Schwalm in a tour of UAMA's magnificent altarpiece of Ciudad Rodrigo. The Altarpiece from Ciudad Rodrigo is an ongoing exhibition at the University of Arizona's Art Museum. The 26 panels from…
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Aug. 26, 2012
Older research on the premodern world limited its focus on the Church, the court, and, more recently, on urban space. The present volume invites readers to consider the meaning of rural space, both in light of ecocritical readings and social-…
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Aug. 25, 2012
"Berlin is poor but sexy“ – Since Berlin´s governing mayor, Klaus Wowereit made this ambiguous observation in a television interview in 2004, it has become a popular slogan and very successful marketing tool to draw an ever growing stream of…
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Aug. 16, 2012
Want to learn all the business language and etiquette required to work in German speaking country? Just like Japan, the conduct of business in Germany involves a lot of diplomacy and protocol, not to forget the highly specialized language. This…
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July 14, 2012
Congratulations to the many students who have passed through classes and programs in the Department of German Studies and graduated in May. Three graduate students completed their Master’s degrees: Alan Eby, Sabine Koehler-Curry and Rachel Walker.…
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July 2, 2012
The MLA regards the learning of languages other than English as vital to an understanding of the world; such learning serves as a portal to the literatures, cultures, historical perspectives, and human experiences that constitute the human record.…