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Scaffolding and men in shadow, in front of a very large EU flag

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.

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.

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.

Medieval woman riding on top of medieval man

Aristotle, esteemed as a great philosopher in the medieval world, also eked out a second existence there as a figure of fun and mockery.

A large crowd of people at Lichtgrenze, the art installation by Marc and Christopher 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

Medicine dropper with a drop of a homeopathic remedy coming out and going into a small, brown glass bottle.

Homeopathy is a controversial form of alternative medicine. Some consider it a miracle, others a sham.

But where did it all start?

"Julya Rabinowich’s Transnational Poetics: Remembering Border Crossings in Narrative and Theater"

A lecture by Christina Guenther, Bowling Green State University

A lecture by Monica Heller, University of Toronto

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.

Digging up the Doll: Inherited Memories of the Removal of German Nationals From Eastern Europe

A lecture by Linda Warley, University of Waterloo

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

Recreating Nature: German Romantic Landscapes as Cultural Ecology

What Do Language Learners Do, Exactly?

Medieval Misogyny? Aristotle and Phyllis in Medieval German Culture

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

The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of 1800: Medicine as Cultural History

Julya Rabinowich's Transnational Poetics

The Commodification of Language in Late Modernity

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

Digging up the Doll