German Campus Week kicked off on Monday November 14th with an event at the FedEX Global Center featuring special guest, Afro-German playwright Olivia Wenzel. Dr. Priscilla Layne screened several clips from Wenzel’s Afrofuturist plays Mais in Deutschland und anderen Galaxien … Read more
From January 9th until the 14th, 2017, Priscilla Layne will be a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Bremen as part of the Program “Internationalization at Home”.
On Tuesday, November 15, GSLL hosted an event called a World of Opportunities. It was an opportunity for students to learn about Russian culture and study abroad options. The event was organized by a senior Russian Literature and Culture major, … Read more
Phi Betta Kappa has recently inducted 137 new students, one of whom is a student from GSLL. Leona A. Amosah from Forsyth County is a Russian Literature and Culture major. Congrats Leona! View the original article here.
On Wednesday, November 2nd, the “Homestory Deutschland” exhibit opened at the Center for European Studies in the FedEx Global Center, suite 3200. The exhibit documents hundreds of years of Black German history from the Early Modern Period to the present. … Read more
The University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science (SILS) is adding a new international summer seminar for 2017 that will focus on the ways information gathering, dissemination, privacy and security affect businesses. Students will travel to Dublin … Read more
A delegation from Universität Bremen in Germany visited the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill the week of Sept. 6 to strengthen the growing partnership between the institutions. The delegation included Annette Lang, director of the Bremen International Office, … Read more
Ruth von Bernuth’s new book, How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of Yiddish Folk Tradition, was released on September 16. A summary and reviews can be found here.
The UNC-Visegrad Studies program is designed to bolster and complement the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures (GSLL) interdisciplinary major in Central European studies. Read the full story here.
47 undergraduates have graduated this spring, brining the total number of graduates from GSLL to 56 if one includes August 2015, December 2015, and May 2016. Of those 56, 14 graduated with Distinction; another 14 graduated with Highest Distinction; and … Read more
