Emily Janicik is a rising senior majoring in Economics and German with Honors in the Liberal Arts. She is writing her senior thesis in collaboration with Professor B. Venkat Mani titled “Xenophobic Policies in the Name of Gratitude: Refugee Experiences with the German and Austrian Governments”.
Klaus L. BerghahnAugust 5, 1937 – November 1, 2019 Klaus Berghahn was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, the youngest of five children of Wilhelm and Anna Berghahn. Klaus came of age in the aftermath of WWII, and his experiences during that time were formative. As a child he would do cartwheels for pennies and he played …
“With the global turn of societies, nations, and countries to adopt an inward gaze fueled by exclusionary policies and politics, our unique collaboration in Berlin—though small—in a non-competitive, friendly, supportive, and engaging atmosphere may indeed serve as an example for the ways in which we, the new generation of academics, can challenge the silos of …
Leighty Hanrahan is not your average UW-Madison student. As a triple-majoring Honors student and recipient of multiple undergraduate fellowships, she has not only set her sights high, but is reaching those heights with her most recent academic undertaking. Leighty’s Senior Honors Thesis project titled Facts within Fiction within Art: German Literary and Artistic Responses to the …
The Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic wishes to extend condolences to the family and friends of our program’s alum Dieter Kowalski who died in the Sri Lanka bombings on Easter Sunday. Dieter Kowalski who was from the Milwaukee area earned a BA in German Studies and International Relations in 2001. In the spirit of …
Brandy E. Wilcox, a Ph.D. candidate in the German program, will present at this year’s Pop Culture Conference at DePaul University in Chicago on May 4th. Under the theme “A Celebration of Disney,” Brandy will join scholars and enthusiasts across many fields with her two talks, the first of which, “Across the Sea, Not Under …
Lucian Rothe, a Ph.D. candidate in the German program, presented his research on “Linking Imagined and Actual Social Spaces: Attributed Stereotypes of Native Speakers with Respect to Foreign Language Choice” at this year’s AAAL Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. This annual conference organized by the American Association for Applied Linguistics is one of the most comprehensive …
Richard Hronek and Lucian Rothe received a Mellon-Wisconsin Fellowship for Summer 2019 from the Graduate School at UW-Madison. Hronek and Rothe are both Ph.D. candidates in the German program and are currently working on their dissertations. Richard Hronek’s dissertation analyzes Jakob Arjouni’s Kayankaya crime series using Friedrich Nietzsche’s concepts of the Apollonian and Dionysian. …
On March 28, 2019, the German and Dutch Graduate Student Association (GDGSA) hosted a professional development event on “Alt-Ac Careers” for graduate students in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic. The GDGSA received a Professional Development Grant from the UW-Madison Graduate School to organize a 90-minute roundtable with alumni from the German Program. Following a …
B. Venkat Mani’s Recoding World Literature: Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017) is the winner of the 2018 Best Book Prize of the German Studies Association in Germanistik and Cultural Studies (for a book published in 2016 or 2017). This prize is funded through the North American office of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The laudatio reads: B. …