January 24, 2007
Archive
UPCOMING EVENTS
* The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures invites you to its monthly lecture series "Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft" (FG) and presents: Prof. Hania Siebenpfeiffer, Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor of German at UIUC/ Universität Münster. She will be giving the talk "Optik, Erkenntnis und Erfahrung in Kants 'Träume eines Geistersehers'"
Thursday, February 1 at 5:15 PM
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building
* Medieval Seminar Lecture Series
All members of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures are cordially invited to come and join any or all of the course meetings in this semester's interdisciplinary medieval seminar entitled "Marriage in Secular and Sacred Vernacular Literature and Art" (MDVL 500 and GER 576).
All lectures and seminars given by various speakers from campus as well as from other institutions will take place on Monday from 4-5:30 in 2090 FLB. Most of the readings for these meetings listed on the syllabus are available on electronic reserve (under my name or under the course number). There are a few readings that are posted on the Compass course website which is only accessible to students enrolled in the course. Please contact Claudia Bornholdt for access to those at bornhold@uiuc.edu. The list of speakers is posted at:
http://www.germanic.uiuc.edu/courses/SyllabiSP07/GER576SP2007syllabus.pdf
* "Deutscher Filmabend - mit englischen Untertiteln" continues the semester’s first screening on Wednesday, January 31st, 7pm, in G-17. We will be showing Til Schweiger's "Barfuss" (2005). More information at http://www.germanic.uiuc.edu/events/dfilmabend.htm
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Professor Claudia Bornholdt presented a paper on "Woman in the Middle High German Alexius Legend: Temptress or Bride of Christ?" at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Midwest in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico (January 12-13, 2007).
Professor Emeritus Karl-Heinz Schoeps published a review of Sascha Löschner, Geschichte als persönliches Drama. Heiner Müller im Spiegel seiner Interviews und Gespräche (Frankfurt a.M.: Lang, 2002) in Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik, XXXVIII, Heft 1 (2006), 266-67.
AWARDS
Laurie Johnson is the James A. Hagan Fellow for 2006-2007, a title bestowed by the LAS Teaching Academy for the most outstanding course development project submitted to the Academy during a given academic year.
Laurie Johnson has been named Helen Corley Petit Scholar in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for 2007-2008. The award recognizes extraordinary and exceptional research and teaching during the tenure probation period. The Petit award was endowed with the purpose of encouraging the scholarship and teaching of select younger faculty members by providing them with the resources to take advantage of a particularly ripe moment in their careers. The Petit award should be considered a distinction for the colleague's home department as well as for the person in question.
GRADUATE STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT
* Social Sciences Research Council
Funding for early graduate students doing work on European Studies from the perspective of the social sciences and humanities.
**Rethinking Europe: Religion, Ethnicity, Nation**
http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf/europe is one of the five fields in 2007 that make up the Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF), a new program organized by the Social Science Research Council with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf).
Applications are now open for early stage graduate students to join a group of 12 students led by Professors John Bowen of Washington University in St. Louis and Rogers Brubaker of the University of California, Los Angeles during summer 2007. These research directors run two workshops, in May and September, that help graduate fellows develop their ideas into fundable dissertations amenable to timely completion. Graduate fellows may apply for up to $5000 in summer research money. To apply before March 1st, 2007, please visit the
SSRC's online application portal at http://soap.ssrc.org/.
WEEKLY DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES
* The Deutsche Konversationsgruppe meets each Wednesday from 2-4 at The Bread Company on Goodwin. Students of all levels are welcome. Instructors of German courses, please let your students know about this opportunity to get extra German practice in an informal, no-pressure setting. More information is available from Frederick Schwink (schwink AT uiuc DOT edu).
* The Scandinavian Coffee Hour meets every Wednesday from 4-6 PM at the Bread Company on Goodwin Street. All speakers of modern Scandinavian languages are welcome to attend. Contact: jfeason AT uiuc DOT edu.
* For information about The Middle High German Reading Group contact Frederick Schwink (schwink AT uiuc DOT edu).
* The IPRH Reading Group "Language and Social Interaction" holds its weekly data session Thursdays, 10-12, in 3114 FLB. Anybody with a background or an interest in conversation analysis is welcome to attend. For more information, contact Professor Andrea Golato golato AT uiuc DOT edu.
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