The virtual Delta Phi Alpha induction ceremony and end-of-semester celebration took place on April 21, 2021. This annual event, which honors undergraduate German majors, featured two speakers, Dr. Christoph Rückel from the internship program German American Exchange and Prof. Henrike … Read more

The Arion Press (San Francisco), has published Nikolai Gogol’s Petersburg tale “The Nose” (1836), prefaced, annotated, and translated by Stanislav Shvabrin. The Arion Press relies on Johannes Gutenberg’s methods to produce handmade books that reinvent the content-form ratio in unexpected … Read more

Each year the University recognizes people and groups that have given their time and effort to advance diversity, equity and inclusion at Carolina and in our surrounding community. As has always been the case, this work is vital as we … Read more

Edited by Rob McFarland, Georg Spitaler, and Ingo Zechner (link). Immediately after World War I, in 1919, the Austrian capital Vienna elected a Social Democratic majority that persisted until 1934. The city’s leaders, together with its intellectuals, boldly imagined a … Read more

James William “Bil” Hays, Jr., of Siler City, North Carolina, passed away unexpectedly at home on December 31, 2020, from heart disease. He was 59. Bil earned his baccalaureate degree in comparative literature from William and Mary College. He completed … Read more

Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), the largest division of the American Library Association, has selected the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception Online (Dale C. Allison et al. eds., Berlin: De … Read more

Professor Eliza Rose presented current research on Ursula K. Le Guin’s invented Central European country at a Carolina Public Humanities Seminar on February 11, 2021 (link) and for the University of Glasgow’s Writing in Transit Research Cluster on March 17, … Read more

Professor Inga Pollmann (UNC-CH), “Environmental Aesthetics: Tracing a latent image from early safari films to contemporary art cinema,” (February 18), Ian McLean (Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies), “Springs of desire: The disruptive force of the erotic and the Sturm … Read more

In honor of Black History Month, the Center for European Studies partnered with Professor Priscilla Layne on February 22, 2021 for a virtual screening of the film The Aryans and live virtual talk with director Mo Asumang (link). The Aryans … Read more

Interested in polishing or refreshing your foreign language speaking skills in a warm and welcoming virtual environment? Bring your own brown bag lunch to your computer, tablet, or smartphone, and join UNC faculty discussion leaders for a lunch over Zoom chat where … Read more