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Is There a Right-Wing Canon? Interrogating Literary Anthologies for the German New Right
Toy LoungeA lecture by Prof. Dr. Thomas Wortmann (Universität Mannheim) 3 pm. Friday, September 29. Toy Lounge. To join Prof. Dr. Wortmann’s catered workshop on recent critical scholarship on German New Right literature, RSVP with Dr. Richard Langston by Sept. 25: … Read more
Screening of East German Paul Robeson Documentary
Toy LoungeI'm a Negro. I'm an American is a documentary shot by DEFA film director Kurt Tetzlaff. Although the film was originally released in 1990, the DEFA library at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst has recently re-released the film as … Read more
Weertje Willms: “Natascha Wodin: Autobiographical Remembering between Ukraine, Russia, the Soviet Union and Germany”
Toy LoungeThe work of Natascha Wodin, born in Germany in 1945 as the daughter of Soviet forced laborers, is clearly autobiographical. Memories of specific moments from childhood and youth, as well as the trauma of exclusion and degradation in German post-war … Read more
GSLL Graduation Ceremony
Toy LoungeThe Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures will hold its annual graduation ceremony at 2:30 pm on Saturday, May 13, 2023, in Dey Hall’s Toy Lounge. Majors and minors together with their friends and family are warmly invited … Read more
Delta Phi Alpha Initiation Ceremony
Toy LoungeAttention! 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! … Read more
Delta Phi Alpha, German Honors Society & Lecture by Dr. Philipp Graner (Siemens Healthineers). Toy Lounge
Toy LoungeThe 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 … Read more
GSLL Poetry Night – Theme: Love
Toy LoungeRead 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 … Read more
The Socialist Lives of Angela Davis: An Afro-Pessimist Analysis
Toy LoungeKimberly 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 … Read more