2024-04-16
- In this book, Carl Niekerk probes the origins of modern anthropology in the European Enlightenment, foregrounding how the knowledge transfer between an international array of natural historians and public intellectuals—including Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon; Voltaire; Denis Diderot; Immanuel Kant; and Johann Gottfried Herder—shaped the emerging discipline and its central debates....
2024-04-03 - Vienna is the historic capital of the multinational Habsburg Empire, a melting pot of language and cultures, and the crossroads between East and West. Salzburg, Prague, Budapest, and Munich are only a few hours away, while a day's train ride takes you to Venice or Paris-- via the Orient Express. Participation in the program gives you the opportunity to develop German language fluency and an...
2024-04-03 - German Early Romanticism is characterized by a newly awakened interest in religious practices and institutions: Novalis and Friedrich Schlegel exchange letters discussing their desire to write a new Bible. Friedrich Schleiermacher discovers religion as a ‘taste for the Infinite’ (Geschmack fürs Unendliche). Ludwig Tieck and Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder invent the ‘art-loving monk’ (kunstliebenden...
2024-04-03 - Anna Elizabeth Hunt Dr. Hunt is an assistant professor in the Germanic department. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? My first book is provisionally titled Sites of Grief: Mourning, Politics, Forgiveness. It’s an expansion of my dissertation, “Taking the World by Storm: Forgiveness in the Early Writings...
2024-04-03 - ILIP is a unique educational experience designed to accelerate language learning through an immersive classroom atmosphere that is fun and welcoming. ILIP classes combine language and culture through engaging high-quality activities facilitated by our skilled instructors. You'll receive 30-hours of enjoyable language instruction, which maximizes exposure to the target language to help them meet...
2023-11-15 - Prof. Hunt receives EU Center grant and affiliation for her GER 199 CHP class: The Holocaust and Discourse of Human Rights, which she is currently teaching for the Campus Honors Program. World War II (1939-1945) marked a dramatic shift in how international communities think about trauma and remember war and other catastrophic events. Focus moved from honoring heroes on the battlefield to...
2023-11-15 - Charlie Webster, who is the Director of the Basic Language Program and the Director of Undergraduate Studies, was awarded a course development grant from the European Union Center to develop a new course about how multilingualism manifests itself in European cities. The award includes a course development stipend and funding for a graduate assistant. “Multilingual European Cities” will be taught...
2023-11-15 - Prof. Hunt was selected to participate in the Inclusive Pedagogy Certificate Program, sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. This highly competitive award will provide 12 selected faculty participants with the opportunity to design or revise syllabi or course materials. Prof. Hunt’s project is to develop...
2023-10-23 - Walker Horsfall joins the department this year as an Assistant Professor. Get to know him and our Scandinavian program. Check out his SCAN 252: Viking Sagas in Translation class this Spring. Follow us on Instagram to learn more about our professors and classes! ...- 2023-06-05 - For the Academic Year 2023-24, GLL doctoral candidates Felix Ayanbode and Zack Hader have been awarded, respectively, the competitive Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship and School of Literatures, Cultures &...
2023-05-09 - Professor Emeritus Karl-Heinz Schoeps-Jensen has published Von Hitlers Deutschland zu Trumps Amerika, an autobiographical reminiscence about two brothers, about the twentieth century, and about the legacies of fascism and of war. Hans-Günther Schoeps died aged 24 during World War II, and his...
2023-04-06 - Check out this page for more information about GLL's Fall 2024 offerings. Add a German major or minor, fulfill General Education requirements with a great class, and more!
2023-03-06 - On Friday, March 10 at 3p, the Department of GLL will host a lecture on Zoom by Prof. Chunjie Zhang (University of California-Davis). The talk is entitled "Crisis and Vision of a World Culture: Rudolf Eucken and Carsun Chang's Das Lebensproblem in China und in Europa (1922)." This talk is part of our lecture series on "Making a Difference in German and Scandinavian Studies."...- 2023-02-24 - Profs. Regine Criser (UNC-Asheville) and Ervin Malakaj (Univ. British Columbia) will offer a graduate-student workshop, followed by a department conversation, on Friday, March 3, 2023 at 3p and 4p Central, respectively, on Zoom. The workshop is on "Being in Community: A Relational Model for German Studies," and the conversation is on "Epistemic Flexibility and the Imperative for Community in...
2023-02-16 - Kaffeestunde will be wunderbar in Fall 2023! We meet at Espresso Royale on Goodwin and Oregon in Urbana on Wednesdays at 5p. Join us for lively German conversation--all levels welcome! Some instructors offer extra credit for attendance. Questions? Contact Andrew Schwenk...