Writing Graduate Seminar Papers – A Workshop

Zoom

Professors Hannah Eldridge and Sunny Yudkoff invite graduate students to meet and discuss the form, scope, and challenges of writing and researching graduate seminar papers. They will workshop examples from their own graduate papers: “Hölderlin’s …

Equitable Assessment Workshop

Zoom

Equitable Assessment Workshop Part I in a 2-workshop Series This workshop, run by Dr. Angela J. Zito of Writing Across the Curriculum at UW Madison, will give an overview of principles (e.g., what does "equity" …

Equitable Assessment Workshop (Part 2)

Zoom

Equitable Assessment Workshop (Part 2) Part II in a 2-workshop series: faculty participants share their experiences with ungrading. Virtual Event (link will be provided)

Linguistics Matters

Zoom

Linguistics Matters Maria Polinsky, UMD-College Park In this talk, I will present the main questions addressed in modern linguistics and will show how language can be used to assess the mind, brain, and culture, with …

Max Kade Institute Symposium

Pyle Center

Nineteenth-Century Echoes: German Settlers and Explorers in South America Max Kade Institute Symposium During the 1800s, emigrants from German-speaking Europe came not only to the United States and Canada; they were also drawn to Argentina, …

Mass Speaking, Public Thinking: Theatrical Cognition in Tret’iakov and Brecht

1418 Van Hise Hall

Devin Fore (Princeton) https://german.princeton.edu/department/people/faculty/core/devin-fore This lecture will explore the connections between, on the one hand, Sergei Tret’iakov and Sergei Eisenstein’s experiments with so-called “collective creation” in the Moscow Proletkul’t theater of the early 1920s and, …

Showing of CROSSING

4070 Vilas Hall

Thu., Oct. 3 | 7:00 PM, 4070 Vilas Hall Sweden, Turkey | 2024 | DCP | 106 min. | Georgian, Turkish with English subtitles Director: Levan Akin Cast: Mzia Arabuli, Lucas Kankava, Deniz Dumanli In rural Georgia, retired schoolteacher Lia sets off on a quest …

Showing of FAR FROM HOME (DAR GHORBAT)

4070 Vilas Hall

West Germany, Iran | 1975 | DCP | 93 min. | Turkish, German Director: Sohrab Shahid-Saless Cast: Parviz Sayyad, Cihan Anasai, Muhammet Temizkan Turkish immigrant Husseyin (Sayyad) endures a monotonous existence as a "guest worker" in '70s West Berlin, sharing a cramped apartment and toiling …