October 2, 2020
Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most honored college honorary society, has inducted 213 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students as new members. Phi Beta Kappa membership … Read more
September 18, 2020
Richard Langston, Unravelling the Thought of Frankfurt School Theorists Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt (Verso, 2020) Collaborators for more than four decades, lawyer, author, filmmaker, and multimedia artist Alexander Kluge and social …
September 11, 2020
Right-wing extremism, everyday racism and racialized microaggressions, and pressure to “assimilate” – all of these constructs affecting racialized minorities result from an inability and unwillingness to respect and appreciate the … Read more
August 28, 2020
Priscilla Layne is an associate professor in the department of Germanic and Slavic languages and an adjunct assistant professor in the department of African, African American and diaspora studies within the … Read more
August 28, 2020
The UNC Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages (GSLL) and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies (CSEEES) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have … Read more
June 30, 2020
Background: In the first week of June, our own Dr. Priscilla Layne was invited on a prominent German political talk show to discuss the protests against police violence in the … Read more
June 30, 2020
On Juneteenth, David Kim (UCLA) had a conversation with Priscilla Layne about BLM and racism in the US and Germany for the Thomas Mann House in LA. Here is a … Read more
December 3, 2019
The Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures congratulates professor Richard Langston and graduate students Leonie Wilms and Nicholas Jones along with Leslie A. Adelson on the recent publication … Read more
October 8, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Priscilla Layne and her students Cameren Lofton, Tracy Ridley, and Nina Moll, for winning in the College/University category of the national AATG Teach German Day Student Video … Read more
May 7, 2019
GSLL Student, Cameren Lofton, and seven others received the Class of 1938 Summer Project Abroad Fellowships for research abroad in summer 2019. Cameren will travel to Hannover, Germany, to intern … Read more
April 24, 2019
In conjunction with the symposium in memory of the former chair of UNC-GSLL, Jonathan Hess, current and former students and faculty of the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies gathered … Read more
April 23, 2019
On Thursday, March 21, 2019, the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at UNC at Chapel Hill, in collaboration with the American Association of Teachers of German of … Read more
April 22, 2019
This past week, on April 16th at 6 p.m. and 18th at 5 p.m. in the Toy Lounge, students taking Christina Weiler’s German Theater class (GERM 374) performed the play … Read more
April 18, 2019
This past weekend, the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, together with numerous cosponsors, hosted the Jonathan M. Hess Moments of Enlightenment … Read more
March 29, 2019
One of the GSLL faculty members, Dr. Radislav Lapushin, has received the 2019 Chapman Family Teaching Award. The Chapman Teaching Awards were established in 1993 through a generous gift by … Read more
March 26, 2019
Phi Beta Kappa recently inducted 205 new students in Spring 2019, 6 of whom are students from GSLL. Ansley Adelaide Ussery, a junior with computer science and German majors and … Read more
March 20, 2019
Isabel Elssner is a current sophomore at UNC-Chapel HIll from Asheville, NC. She is on the pre-med track and is double majoring in Biology and German with a minor in Chemistry. … Read more
February 25, 2019
JJ Schacht, a student majoring in GSLL with a concentration in German, will be interning for Pia-Pontis Institutional Advisors in Munich, Germany this upcoming summer. He received this position through the … Read more
February 22, 2019
One of our faculty members, Dr. Priscilla Layne, speaks about her founding interest in German and how that turned into an academic career. The podcast is part of UNC’s “Well Said” … Read more
February 18, 2019
A German comic was created displaying one of our faculty members, Dr. Priscilla Layne life’s journey. The comic was created by Birgit Weyhe, a comic book artist that Dr. Layne … Read more
