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March 2023
Popoika
Don’t let your Russian skills fall out of practice this summer! Join other Russian-language learners at this weekly immersion opportunity every Friday at 4PM! The hour-long conversation takes place exclusively in Russian. All levels are welcome! Free tea and cookies!
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Deutschklub
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Find out more »“The Life of Community”: Gustav Landauer Reads Friedrich Hölderlin
On 13 March 1916, at the height of the First World War, the German-Jewish writer, philosopher, and anarchist activist, Gustav Landauer, gave a lecture at the Berlin Women’s Club of 1900 bearing the indistinct title “Friedrich Hölderlin in his Poems”. The lecture – which focuses on Hölderlin’s hymn “The Rhine” (1802), and which forms part of a cycle on the theme of “Celestial and Terrestrial Love in the Poetry of Goethe and the Romantics” – is remarkable for its characteristic…
Find out more »The Socialist Lives of Angela Davis: An Afro-Pessimist Analysis
Kimberly is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work examines how Black experiences in the Soviet Union shaped modes of Black identity and how the presence of people of color shaped ideas and understandings of race, ethnicity, and nationality policy in the Soviet Union, East Germany, and post-Soviet space. Her public writing analyzes the linkages between race, foreign policy, and culture in the United States, Russia, and Ukraine. Her writing has appeared in Foreign Policy, the Moscow Times, and the Kennan Institute's Russia File. She has also become a regular…
Find out more »Kaffestunde
Kaffeestunde is a informal weekly language hour hosted by German graduate students. Regardless of whether you are a beginner or an advanced student, Kaffeestunde is an excellent way to immerse yourself in the German language with other learners. As the name suggests, Kaffeestunde includes free coffee (regular and decaffeinated) and cookies and cake. We sometimes bring out German board games and card games to help practice!
Find out more »Popoika
Don’t let your Russian skills fall out of practice this summer! Join other Russian-language learners at this weekly immersion opportunity every Friday at 4PM! The hour-long conversation takes place exclusively in Russian. All levels are welcome! Free tea and cookies!
Find out more »GSLL Poetry Night – Theme: Love
Read a poem in BCS, Czech, Dutch, German, Polish, or Russian. German 101-305: Get 1 Kulturpunkt for attending, 2 Kulturpunkte for attending and reading a poem in German. To read a poem of your choice, contact your instructor by March 31! There will be delicious chocolate. Is there a poem in a Germanic or Slavic language you are crazy about? Want to practice your public speaking skills? Do you secretly want to become an actor? Come to GSLL’s spring poetry…
Find out more »Kaffestunde
Kaffeestunde is a informal weekly language hour hosted by German graduate students. Regardless of whether you are a beginner or an advanced student, Kaffeestunde is an excellent way to immerse yourself in the German language with other learners. As the name suggests, Kaffeestunde includes free coffee (regular and decaffeinated) and cookies and cake. We sometimes bring out German board games and card games to help practice!
Find out more »Delta Phi Alpha, German Honors Society & Lecture by Dr. Philipp Graner (Siemens Healthineers). Toy Lounge
The Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures will recognize the Spring 2023 class of Carolina students of German to be invited to join the Beta Rho chapter of Delta Phi Alpha, now in its eighty fourth year, of Carolina’s German Honors Society. The ceremony will feature a lecture by Dr. Philipp Graner, Director for Scientific Engagement at Siemens Healthineers. German food and beverages will be provided.
Find out more »Delta Phi Alpha Initiation Ceremony
Attention! Students of German! Future scientists! Aspiring business people! Tomorrow’s ambassadors! Join us as we celebrate the initiation of the Spring 2023 class to Carolina's German honors society. There will be pomp and circumstance. There will be German food! There will be a Business German lecture!
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