May 22, 2021
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 … Read more
May 5, 2021
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 … Read more
April 9, 2021
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. … Read more
April 9, 2021
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 … Read more
April 9, 2021
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 … Read more
April 9, 2021
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 … Read more
April 9, 2021
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 … Read more
April 9, 2021
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 … Read more
April 9, 2021
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 … Read more
April 9, 2021
The GSLL Kino Club continues to bring world cinema to the comfort of student and faculty homes with screenings of Leto (directed by Kirill Serebrennikov) on February 23, co-hosted with … Read more
April 9, 2021
The American Association of Teachers of German of North Carolina (NC-AATG) held its 21st annual German Day for middle-school and high-school students virtually during the week of March 15‒18, 2021. … Read more
April 9, 2021
The following doctoral students have received Duke fellowships and travel awards: Ian McLean (Katherine Goodman Stern Dissertation Completion Fellowship), Nathan Drapela (J. B. Duke International Research Travel Fellowship), Undraa Lhamsuren … Read more
April 9, 2021
Professor Annette Gerok-Reiter is currently chair of the collaborative research center SFB 1391 “Andere Ästhetik”, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. Her talk was titled “Was ist ‘anders’ an der ‘Anderen Ästhetik’? … Read more
April 9, 2021
Talk, “Comics and the Cold War,” presented by Professor Eliot Borenstein, April 26, 2021 (link). Eliot Borenstein is Professor of Russian & Slavic Studies and Senior Academic Convenor for the … Read more
April 9, 2021
The Future of German Jewish Studies: April 11, 2021 book launch for Moments of Enlightenment: In Memory of Jonathan M. Hess (edited by Ruth von Bernuth and Eric Downing, Boydel … Read more
April 9, 2021
Professor Lapushin’s book Dew on the Grass: The Poetics of Inbetweenness in Chekhov (Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature, vol. 32, New York: Peter Lang, 2010) is the first … Read more
April 9, 2021
The Modern Language Association of America announced its awarding of the fourteenth Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures. Professor Priscilla Layne received an honorable … Read more
April 9, 2021
The International Vladimir Nabokov Society has awarded Prof. Stanislav Shvabrin’s book Between Rhyme and Reason: Vladimir Nabokov, Translation, and Dialogue (University of Toronto Press, 2019) its 2020 Jane Grayson Prize … Read more
April 9, 2021
In fall 2021 the Department will welcome Matthew McGarry, currently instructor in Russian at the University of Oklahoma (link) who expects to receive his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin … Read more
April 9, 2021
In fall 2021, the Department will welcome a new Polish lecturer. This is possible thanks to the joint support of the Polish National Agency of Academic Exchange (NAWA) and the … Read more