Archive: Jessica Ruffin


  • Can Architecture Be Democratic? by Jan-Werner Müller

    January 22, 2018

    The Department of German presents the 2nd Annual Mosse-Lecture March 1, 2018 |4:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall Jan-Werner Mueller with Martin Jay, Discussant Can Architecture Be Democratic? Many people have an intuitive sense that the built environment is bound up with politics. The lecture poses the question how we might think more systematically (and normatively) about the relationship between democracy and architecture as well as public spaces as a particular form of the built environment. A very basic distinction between representing democracy, on the one hand, and facilitating democratic practices, on the other, will serve as a structuring feature.…

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  • Call for Papers: Semiotic Circle of California

    October 15, 2017

    Call for Papers 33rd Meeting of Semiotic Circle of California Saturday, January 20, 2018 The Thirty-Third Meeting of the Semiotic Circle of California will be held in the Faculty Club of the University of California, Berkeley on Saturday, January 20, 2018. Please submit this form together with a one paragraph abstract (attachment or CD) by December 15, 2017 for participation in the meeting. As customary, the meeting will be an open topic research paper meeting. Reservations for housing may be made directly to the Faculty Club at (510) 642-1993/540-5678 or to the Hotel Durant at (510) 845-8981.

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  • Dewulf to Direct Institute for European Studies

    May 30, 2014

    The new director of the Institute for European Studies will hail from our department. Professor Jeroen Dewulf has accepted this position and will be starting in August, while maintaining his active presence in the Dutch and German programs. We look forward to good collaborations with a revitalized Institute that will promote discussions on Europe in the world with an emphasis on cultural studies and language learning.

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  • PhD Candidate Accepts Position at Butler

    May 15, 2014

    PhD Candidate Melissa Etzler has accepted a position as Instructor of German at Butler University.

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  • First Berkeley Prize Winner Announced

    May 15, 2014

    Our departmental awards committee has selected the essay “Representations of the Staatssicherheitsdienst in Christa Wolf’s Was bleibt, Antje Ravic Strubel’s Sturz der Tage in die Nacht, and Hermann Kant’s Kennung” as the winner of this year’s Berkeley Prize for Undergraduate Essays in German Studies. We congratulate the author, Emily C. Bell from Wellesley College, on this wonderful success! Bell will be awarded $500, and her essay will be considered for publication in our electronic journal TRANSIT. The essay submissions provided us with a good cross-section of undergraduate research in the field.

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  • Visiting Professor Accepts Position at Northwestern

    May 5, 2014

    Erica Weitzman (2013-14 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of German at Northwestern University. Weitzman is Visiting Professor in the department for the 2013-14 academic year.

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  • PhD Candidate Accepts Position in Berlin

    April 7, 2014

    PhD candidate Yael Almog has accepted a position as an Assistant Professor (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Center of Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin (ZfL). For 2014-15, she was also offered The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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  • Outstanding GSI Awards Announced

    March 19, 2014

    Graduate students Mason Allred and Lindsay Preseau have been selected for the 2013-14 Outstanding GSI Award.

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  • PhD Candidate Will Be Visiting Asst. Prof.

    March 19, 2014

    Ashwin Manthripragada has accepted a three-year position as Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

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  • German Class Featured in Blog

    March 19, 2014

    Ashwin Manthripragada’s German 4 class was featured in the UC Berkeley Bear Talk blog.

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