Archive: Molly Krueger
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Congratulations to Jonas Teupert recipient of a Teaching Effectiveness Award for his essay ‘Collaborative Learning in Times of Remote Instruction’
Read moreJuly 29, 2020
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UC Berkeley’s 28th Annual German Department Graduate Conference, “Schul(d)en: Guilt, Debt, Education,” was organized by graduate students Andrew Blough, Vera Feinberg, Sarah Harris, and Adam Nunes
Read moreFebruary 23, 2020
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Graduate Student, Jon Cho-Polizzi, presented his work at “Migration in a Global World” the DAAD International South School at CEDA in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Read moreFebruary 18, 2020
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Graduate student, Jonas Teupert, presented his paper “Improvising ‘Kanak Sprak:’ Feridun Zaimoglu’s Community of Dissonant Voices” at 2019 German Studies Association annual conference
Read moreFebruary 15, 2020
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Professor Niklaus Largier convened international workshop, “Media, Legends, Mysticism” with participants from UC Berkeley, Zurich, Princeton, & Stanford
Read moreFebruary 13, 2020
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Professor Deniz Göktürk published a book on German film history: The German Cinema Book, co-edited with Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter, & Claudia Sandberg
Read moreFebruary 4, 2020
This comprehensively revised, updated and significantly extended edition introduces German film history from its beginnings to the present day, covering key periods and movements including early and silent cinema, Weimar cinema, Nazi cinema, the New German Cinema, the Berlin School, the cinema of migration, and moving images in the digital era. Contributions by leading international scholars are grouped into sections that focus on genre; stars; authorship; film production, distribution and exhibition; theory and politics, including women’s and queer cinema; and transnational connections. Spotlight articles within each section offer key case studies, including of individual films that illuminate larger histories (Heimat, Downfall, The…
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Professor Claire Kramsch received MLA’s Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize for her new book “The Multilingual Instructor: What Foreign Language Teacher’s Say About Their Experience and Why it Matters”
Read moreDecember 8, 2019
CLAIRE KRAMSCH AND LIHUA ZHANG TO RECEIVE THE MLA’S KENNETH W. MILDENBERGER PRIZE FOR THE MULTILINGUAL INSTRUCTOR: WHAT FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS SAY ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCE AND WHY IT MATTERS New York, NY– 4 December 2019 – The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its thirty-fifth Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize to Claire Kramsch, of the University of California, Berkeley, and Lihua Zhang, of the University of California, Berkeley, for their book The Multilingual Instructor: What Foreign Language Teachers Say about Their Experience and Why It Matters, published by Oxford University Press. The prize is awarded for an outstanding…
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CfP: 29th Annual Berkeley German Studies Conference – Schul(d)en: Guilt, Debt, Education
Read moreNovember 16, 2019
The Berkeley German Department is pleased to announce a call for papers for the 28th Annual Berkeley German Studies Conference. Please send submissions to berkeleygermanconference@gmail.com by December 31, 2019.
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Graduate Student Research Highlighted in Smithsonian Magazine!
Read moreMarch 14, 2018
Doctoral candidate, Sarah Harris’s research has been highlighted in an article out now in Smithsonian Magazine. Sarah studies language and identity, specifically as it relates to inclusive language in German. Her dissertation concerns gender marking on persons, and how the grammatical requirements of German may affect women and trans individuals.
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BIG GIVE — SEIZE THE MOMENT !
Read moreMarch 7, 2018
BIG GIVE — SEIZE THE MOMENT MARCH 8th! The Cal experience is made up of so many moments. Moments of realization. Moments of glory. Moments of truth. A-ha moments and moments you’ll remember for the rest of your days. You can make more Berkeley moments happen during Big Give, our day of online giving March 8, helping us maintain our position as the No. 1 public university in the world as we approach our 150th anniversary. Visit at BigGive.berkeley.edu and donate to the Department of German today!