WCGS welcomes visiting researcher Georg Marschnig (Universität Graz) on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 for a lecture and workshop. Join us in HH 373 for his lecture, the workshop, or both! Details below.
There is no registration for this event, all are welcome. Please note that masks are mandatory.
Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany
The EXAMPLES AND TIPS webinars address some of the major concerns people have about online teaching and learning. These compact, 45-minute webinars will equip instructors with concrete examples and ideas they can implement in their own courses. Both webinars will be recorded and made available afterwards, along with useful resources.
The EXAMPLES AND TIPS webinars address some of the major concerns people have about online teaching and learning. These compact, 45-minute webinars will equip instructors with concrete examples and ideas they can implement in their own courses. Both webinars will be recorded and made available afterwards, along with useful resources.
THE NATURE OF EXPERIMENT: INTELLIGENCE, LIFE, AND THE HUMAN
Mary Shelley’s famous invocation of human experimentation gone wrong is 200 years old, but remains as vibrant an analysis of the human implication of scientific insight as it did when it was first published; perhaps more so in an age on the verge of breakthroughs in both AI and bioengineering. This conference will approach the intersections of intelligence, life, and the human from a unique perspective, through the concept and practice of the “experiment,” both today and in the past.
May 4th-5th 2018
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.
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.
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
“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.