April 28, 2022
In August 2021, Dr. Agnieszka Majewska with her colleagues in Poland founded the Continents Association, whose goal is to promote Polish in the world and contribute to the methodology and … Read more
April 28, 2022
Dr. Eliza Rose presented a chapter from her in-progress book at the AATSEEL 2022 Conference in Philadelphia in February and more recently, as an invited lecturer at the University of … Read more
April 28, 2022
While Prof. Priscilla Layne was living in Berlin in fall of 2018 on a fellowship from the American Academy, she made the acquaintance of German graphic novelist Birgit Weyhe. Prof. … Read more
April 28, 2022
Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies, the UNC-CH Transatlantic Master’s Program, and the Institute for European Studies at UC Berkeley and held virtually on March 5, 2022, this conference … Read more
April 28, 2022
This spring, German playwright, translator, and dramaturg Henning Bochert was in Chapel Hill for a few weeks and gave a lecture on contemporary German theater on March 2, 2022, which … Read more
April 28, 2022
Her book Decay and Afterlife: Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins, 1100 to 1900 was published by the University of Chicago Press in February–March, 2022 (link).
April 28, 2022
Tenth anniversary conference of the Black German Heritage and Research Association, hosted by Africana Studies at Rutgers University–Camden (link). Prof. Priscilla Layne was a keynote speaker (“New (Black German) Subjectivity: … Read more
April 28, 2022
The International Vladimir Nabokov Society has awarded its 2021 Ellen Pifer Prize for best undergraduate essay to Sophia Hougton ’21. Her study “Fated text, autonomous design: Aubrey Beardsley’s spectral legacy … Read more
April 28, 2022
The Russian Flagship Program at UNC-Chapel Hill is a joint collaboration between the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European … Read more
April 28, 2022
Gigi graduated in December 2021 with a double major in German and public policy. This Campaign for Carolina article is about her experience studying abroad and focuses on a scholarship … Read more
April 28, 2022
In December 2021 The Department of Music welcomed Elliott Chandler as the new department accounting technician (link), who graduated in May 2021 from UNC-CH with a degree in mathematics and … Read more
April 28, 2022
Annegret Oehme (PhD, 2016) has received tenure in the Department of German Studies at the University of Washington. Her book, The Knight without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations, … Read more
March 31, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Priscilla Layne and Dr. Christina Weiler. After serving as Vice President from 2020-2021, Dr. Priscilla Layne is now President of the American Association of Teachers of German … Read more
March 9, 2022
Timeline Competitions are held annually, pending the availability of funds. Current competition: FY 2022 Applications available: February 2, 2022 Application deadline: April 6, 2022 Federal Register Notice Notice Inviting Applications … Read more
March 9, 2022
The application deadline for year three of this project has been extended to March 31, 2022. AICGS is recruiting sixteen participants (eight from Germany, eight from the U.S.) per year … Read more
February 25, 2022
The UNC Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures condemns the Russian invasion of the independent, free, and democratic country of Ukraine in the strongest possible terms. Our unconditional … Read more
January 24, 2022
On January 21, 2022, Dr. Aleksandra Prica sat down for an interview with Dr. Lea Greenberg on the New Books in German Studies segment of the New Books Network. Dr. … Read more
January 19, 2022
Friday, January 28, 2022, 1:00pm (on Zoom): John Jolly (Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies): “‘A Holy Open Mystery’: Modern poetry and the metaphysics of analogia.” Wednesday, March 2, 2022: … Read more
January 19, 2022
Congratulations to Prof. Aleksandra Prica, whose promotion to the rank of associate professor with tenure took effect on January 1, 2022, and to Dr. Clayton Koelb, Guy B. Johnson Distinguished … Read more
January 19, 2022
Screening of Never Gonna Snow Again, directed by Małgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert (2020, in Polish with English subtitles) at the Varsity Theatre, November 16, 2021). The film deals with … Read more
January 19, 2022
Tine Rassalle, graduate teaching fellow who covered Dutch in the fall 2021 term, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on “Coin deposits in ancient synagogues in Late Antique Palestine” in the … Read more