Workshop

Tuesday, June 28, 2022 3:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Lecture and Workshop with Visiting Researcher Georg Marschnig

Lecture and Workshop with Visiting Researcher Georg Marschnig

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.

Sunday, November 14, 2021 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Der Reisende / The Passenger: a Novel, Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, trans. by Philip Boehm

Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany

Thursday, July 16, 2020 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Examples and Tips Webinars

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.

Wednesday, July 15, 2020 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Examples and Tips Webinars

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.

Monday, April 8, 2019 12:00 am - 12:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

The Nature of Experiment

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.

Tuesday, November 28, 2017 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Reading Group Fall 2017: Winnetou, by Karl May

Cover art for original Winnetou publication, from 1893.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.

Tuesday, July 25, 2017 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

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

Monday, May 15, 2017 2:00 pm - Wednesday, May 17, 2017 3:00 pm CEST (GMT +02:00)

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.