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 11 undergrad students and 1 PhD Candidate, named Sophia! Sophia is our GLPC or Graduate Language Program Coordinator- which most …
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 Friday. Kubb is a fairly simple game involving two teams, 10 wooden pegs, 6 throwing sticks, and a king. Members …
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 in high school and hosted two German Exchange Students during that time. Over the years of extensive involvement within my class and within German Club, …
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 whether it is tales from the frozen North that have given us the most potent forests of the imagination, invading …
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. …
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 Bun Day! Kanelbullar are similar to cinnamon rolls here in America, but instead of frosting they are coated in a …
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 Wisconsin and other states participated. The workshop was designed to promote a modular curriculum available on the web that was developed …
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 general direction I’d like to go. Given the climate in Russia around homosexuality right now, it’s also possible that I’ll dive …
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 a vehicle to bring disability studies values and concepts into the field of Slavic literatures, and in determining the role …
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 am interested in the the links between scientific knowledge and political and cultural thinking in Petrine Russia and its Western …