Nick Ostrau received a Leslie Center Project Grant for the further development of his online language learning virtual chatbot application for beginning learners of German, German Chatterbox.

German Studies scholar Veronika Fuechtner, film director Oliver Hardt and art historian Sven Beckstette discuss the concepts of racism and whiteness and sociological differences between Germany and the United States in this article.

On May 9th, Paul Reitter spoke about his new English edition of Marx’s Capital (Vol. 1), which will include the first English retranslation in more than forty years. Paul Reitter teaches in the German department at Ohio State University....

What kept the famous Bauhaus artist, Lyonel Feininger in Berlin? German critic Andreas Platthaus traces Feininger's Berlin years and his eventual return to the US . Thursday, April 25, 2019 at noon in 246 Haldeman....

It is time: German Club will meet weekly in Winter 2019 term. Let the officership know what meeting times are most convenient to you by following the article link.

Jessica Resvick (University of Chicago) will give a talk entitled: SELF RECOGNITION AND THE MIRROR OF REALISM: GOTTFRIED' KELLER'S 'THE MISUSED LOVE LETTERS' on Friday, January 11, 2019...

German Studies has just launched its German Beats podcast archive. Podcasts feature conversations between German Studies faculty and students (with music) as well as guest speaker interviews and sound pieces relating to German language, literature and culture from our course offerings.

President Phil Hanlon, Rabbi Moshe Gray, and Professor Susannah Heschel joined in a discussion of antisemitism, its history and dangers, on November 5 in the Class of 1953 Commons. Bring your questions!

The German Club met for a Screening and Dinner Discussion with renowned artist Ulrike Ottinger in the Montgomery House (Pine Room) on October 29

Volker Kutscher, the author of the wildly popular historical German crime novel series that served as the basis for the popular Netflix TV show Babylon Berlin (2017) gave a reading, followed by discussion, on October 4