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What do people do in a crisis? Do they tend to react with fear, imagination, xenophobia, greed, ambition, anger, solidarity, love? This lecture course explores several moments of crisis and rebellion in German and European history since the 18th…

March is always a time to think of new beginnings. Our students are beginning to consider what courses they will select next year, where they will continue studying, or where the quest for a professional position might lead them. We provide stu …

As we near the end of the spring 2012 semester, the Graduate Enrichment Program (GEP) is just gearing up. Beginning after Spring Break and lasting till the second week of April we will be holding 4 GEP Workshops. Three of these Workshops are new and…

German Advanced University Students Alliance (GAUSA) is a new networking opportunity for German students on Facebook. Once or twice a week students will receive a short message about a new Facebook posting on GAUSA. The Facebook postings will be…

The American Association of Teachers of German recently published their latest newsletter featuring up-to-date information on the annual meeting, farewell and welcomes for the AATG president, and various other news and information including an…

Please join the Department of German Studies in congratulating Albrecht Classen on the selection of his edited Handbook of Medieval Studies: Terms, Methods and Trends to CHOICE’s list of Outstanding Academic Titles. Out of over 25.000 books, Prof.…

The Middle Ages were not only times of military conflicts, the formation of nations, and the rise of the Catholic Church, but also an era defined by profound exploration of what is magnificent and sublime in all aspects of life, including…

Prof. Robert Shandley and Brent Peterson are offering a seminar sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities entitled "Berlin's Cultural Diversity Across Two Centuries" June 17-July 20, 2012 in Berlin. Since the seminar is being conducted…

In the summer of 2011, I was very fortunate to be granted the opportunity to participate in an internship at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, in Karlsruhe, Germany. Knowing that as an international student, there is a limit to the types of…

If you like German words like ' Fahrvergnügen', listen to Tokyo Hotel or Rammstein, enjoy Nutella, and are thinking of visiting the Oktoberfest, perhaps you'd like to find out what else the German-speaking world is all about you should take a look…