Hallo! Welcome back to the Stockwerk Deutsch blog! I have already introduced myself, but now I would like to introduce you to the Stockwerk Deutsch Learning Community itself… This year we are a group of …
Kubb: The Scandinavian Lawn Game
The cold weather this week didn’t stop Norden House from playing our first few games of Kubb! Members of Norden house met with some native Swedes to play the popular Scandinavian lawn game this past …
Meet Isobela
Guten Tag! Welcome to Stockwerk Deutsch, the German Learning Community, blog updates! My name is Izzy and I am a freshman here at UW-Madison studying Kinesiology with certificates in German and Business. I took German all four years …
BBC Radio 3: Sunday Feature With Professor Thomas DuBois
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough enters the forests of our imagination, looking for stories. Alternative realities, holy quests and fairytales hidden among the glories of the Autumn forest. Despite our evolution in the African rainforests, Eleanor wonders …
B. Venkat Mani’s GSA/DAAD 2018 Best Book Prize
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 …
Swedish Cinnamon Bun Day
Did you have a good Kanelbullens Dag? I know we at Norden House did! This past Friday Norden House partnered with the Nordic Society for Undergraduates to celebrate one of Sweden’s coolest holidays, Swedish Cinnamon …
68.77.89: Czechoslovakia from Invasion to Revolution
Summer 2018 featured a high-school teachers’ workshop on Czechoslovak history in the second half of the 20th century. The workshop was co-sponsored by CREECA and co-facilitated by Slavic professor David S. Danaher. Thirteen teachers from …
Carson Fish
What is or will (or might be) the focus of your dissertation research? I’d really love to explore queer themes in contemporary Russian literature, film, and/or drama. For now that’s still very broad, but that’s the …
Cecil Leigh Wilson
What is the focus of your dissertation research? My dissertation, still in early stages, is on disability and holy fools in Russian literature. I’m interested in using the familiar figure of the holy fool as …
Kirill Ospovat
What are your current and future research projects? I am currently developing two book projects. The first investigates the introduction of Western-type science to Russia under Peter the Great in the early eighteenth century. I …