January 19, 2022
Ian McLean presented at the Radical and Moderate Sturm und Drang: A Virtual Summer Workshop, August 2–3, 2021, organized by Prof. Martin Wagner (University of Calgary) and Prof. Ellwood Wiggins … Read more
January 19, 2022
Martin Dawson, Ph.D. (August, 2021) is lecturer of German in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Lea Greenberg, Ph.D. (May, 2021) … Read more
January 19, 2022
Margaret Reif, Ph.D. (May, 2020) is visiting assistant professor of German at Haverford College. Jeffrey Hertel, Ph.D. (May, 2020) is assistant professor of German at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan. April … Read more
January 19, 2022
The Department of German Studies at Duke announced that Stephen Zaksewicz has won the 2021 Bessent Teaching Award and Amy Jones has won the 2021 Borchardt Teaching Award. Both awards … Read more
January 19, 2022
Carolina-Duke graduate student Natasza Gawlik is the winner of the 2021 Stambaugh-Borchardt Prize for best Writing Proficiency Review essay, “Mariella Mehr’s steinzeit: Unturning the stone on Swiss and Yenish history” … Read more
January 19, 2022
In May 2021 the Diversity Awards Committee and the University Office for Diversity and Inclusion announced the year’s Diversity Award winners. Among the recipients is Prof. Priscilla Layne (read more … Read more
January 19, 2022
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 … Read more
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
