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Workshop: Rap im Deutschunterricht
Workshop with students and German teachers focusing on rap in the German language classroom. This event was co-sponsored by the Goethe Institute.
Teachers' Workshop
Professors, teachers and teaching assistants of German were invited to this professional development workshop.
Nature & Education circa 1800
Isis was the veiled goddess of nature who inspired German writers from Schiller to Novalis. Jean Paul Richter, too, fantasized about Isis: once one tried to lift the veil on nature, he said, the veil would continually extend itself.
Seminar: Spinoza, Goethe, Deleuze: All is Leaf (or Rhizome--take your pick)
German Studies Forum
The German Studies Forum aims to
Negotiating Understanding: Responding to Formulations in Interaction
Conversation Analysis Research Workshop
“Formulations” in spoken interaction propose an understanding of some state of affairs — of what another person has been telling or doing. This workshop examines a broad range of such sequences in which an understanding is formulated in conversation and then accepted or rejected. Such sequences allow us to trace how shared meaning and understanding is constructed in everyday interaction.
Reading Group: Book Swap & Reading Discussion
Choose Your Own German Book!
This semester, instead of the Centre stipulating the book, we're leaving it up to you! So, read whatever German-related book you'd like, be it written by a German/Swiss/Austria author in whatever language you can easily read, or a novel that really interests you that's been translated into
Novalis' "Lehrlinge zu Sais"
Novalis drafted The Novices at Sais between 1798 and 1799, with plans to reconceive it as a “truly symbolic novel of nature” in 1800, but left the work incomplete on his death.
Reading Group Fall 2017: Winnetou, by Karl May
We're going back to the Wild West, German style, with Karl May's Winnetou I (1893) and the Brubacher House.
We'll begin the evening with a short tour of the historic, Mennonite home and then sit down for our book discussion in its stone-walled basement, next to a cozy fire.