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Scaffolding and men in shadow, in front of a very large EU flag
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 5:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

100 Years Since WWI: Dictatorship and Democracy in an Age of Extremes

Beginning with the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the last century saw the rise of Italian fascism and Soviet communism, the world economic crisis, and the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany, leading to the horrors of World War II.

Poster for 2014 Grimm Lecture
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Recreating Nature: German Romantic Landscapes as Cultural Ecology

Be it the depictions of castles and seductive sirens along the Rhine River in the poetry and prose of Brentano, Eichendorff, and Heine, the paintings of artists like Runge and Friedrich, or the fairy tales told by the Brothers Grimm, the German Romantics created landscapes whose images continue to resonate in the popular imagination.

Friday, March 20, 2015 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

What Do Language Learners Do, Exactly?

Sound research in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) necessarily draws upon established second language acquisition (SLA) constructs and approaches in exploring learner-computer and learner-learner interaction. At the same time, CALL research has the potential to shape (and also complicate) aspects of SLA theory. Indeed, the digital medium affords CALL researchers certain advantages; however, it also presents a host of methodological challenges. Among these challenges, sufficiently tracking learner behavior seems to be critical.

A large crowd of people at Lichtgrenze, the art installation by Marc and Christopher Bauder
Friday, May 29, 2015 3:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Lichtgrenze (The Berlin Wall as a Border of Light): A Talk by Creator Marc Bauder

Marc Bauder will talk about how he and his brother, Christopher, conceived and executed a public art installation to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the

Headshot of the speaker, Nikola van Merveldt
Saturday, November 21, 2015 3:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Remediating Nature: Presenting the Natural World in 18th Century Children's Literature

Nikola von Merveldt researches children's literature and its historical context. Her studies focus on the history of the book as a material object and social medium that isn’t only the intellectual product of the author, but also the commercial, technological, and cultural product of an epoch.