The department's 27th annual graduate student conference on the topic of "Affective Realisms" took place February 22-23. The event brought together scholars from different universities and disciplines for a number of lectures, workshops, and discussions. The conference was organized by graduate students Caroline Durlacher, Molly Krueger, Landon Reitz, and Michael Sandberg.
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September 3, 2019
Last May, graduate student Landon Reitz presented a paper at the 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI. He presented his paper, "Reading with the Entire Body," on a panel convened by the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford University.
June 25, 2019
Professor of Dutch Studies, Jeroen Dewulf recently published a chapter in Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition. Professor Dewulf's contribution is titled "Sangamentos on Congo Square? Kongolese Warriors, Brotherhood Kings, and Mardi Gras Indians in New Orleans."
March 27, 2019
Professor of Dutch Studies, Jeroen Dewulf recently published a new article in Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, “Iberian linguistic elements among the black population in New Netherland (1614–1664).”
March 12, 2019
A collection of Professor Irmengard Rauch's scholarship has been published as a part of the Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics book series. Selected Writings of Irmengard Rauch collects Rauch’s articles which center on contemporary and historical Germanic linguistic phenomena. Her writings exploit the combined approaches of linguistics and semiotics.
March 11, 2019
As you may know, our annual fundraising blitz, Big Give, is quickly approaching, taking place March 14,
2019. This event began in 2014, offering you and the entire Cal community — alumni, parents, students,
faculty, staff, and friends — the opportunity to demonstrate our collective generosity by supporting
Berkeley’s students, research, innovation, and dedication to excellence, all of which amplifies your
contributions through awareness and contest prizes. In 2019, we’ve set a goal to raise 10,000 individual
November 9, 2018
Professor Niklaus Largier will teach a 6 week course at the School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University this summer. The course entitled “Figures of Possibility: Figuration, Imagination, and the Phenomenology of Rhetorical Effects” will run June 16 – July 25. Those interested in attending can find additional information at the School for Criticism and Theory.
October 30, 2018
Métaphores de l’Austérité et Austérité des Métaphores/Metaphors of Austerity & The Austerity of Metaphors, co-ed. with Richard Trim. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2018.
New article:
October 25, 2018
Imagining World Order: Literature and International Law in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 (Cornell University Press, 2018)
Spekulative Sinnlichkeit: Spekulation und Kontemplation im Mittelalter (Mediävistische Perspektiven) Taschenbuch – 18. Oktober 2018
Jeroen Dewulf (2018), Grijs slavernijverleden? Over zwarte milities en redimoesoegedrag. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
October 22, 2018
Congratulations Graduates - 2017-18 Estes, George Alex [Language Engineer at Amazon, Seattle] Hench, Christopher [Language Engineer at Amazon, Cambridge, MA] Tara Hottman [Lecturer at UC Berkeley College Writing Program] Lindsay Preseau [Asst. Prof., University of Cincinnati] Annika Orich [Asst. Prof., Georgia Tech]
October 11, 2018
Laura Sacia Bonicatto, Esmée van der Hoeven, and Giuliana Perco (Italian Dept) were accepted into the Lecturer Teaching Fellows Program for the 2018-19 academic year with their project Speaking in Tongues: Providing Digital Oral/Aural Opportunities for Foreign Language Students. In this collaborative project, the three language lecturers will be exploring various online tools, apps, and platforms geared toward developing oral/aural skills outside of the classroom in an interactive way.
March 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.
March 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!
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
October 25, 2017
Professor Jeroen Dewulf published From the Kingdom of Kongo to Congo Square: Kongo Dances and the Origins of the Mardi Gras Indians. The book presents a provocatively new interpretation of one of New Orleans’s most enigmatic traditions—the Mardi Gras Indians. By interpreting the tradition in an Atlantic context, Dewulf traces the “black Indians” back to the ancient Kingdom of Kongo and its war dance known as sangamento.
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.
August 19, 2017
Friday/Saturday, April 6-7, 2018
The Faculty Club
University of California, Berkeley
Invited Speakers:
Tonya Dewey-Findell, University of Nottingham
Angelika Lutz, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
John McWhorter, Columbia University
Theo Vennemann, University of Munich
May 1, 2017
The Graduate Symposium on German Medieval Studies will be convened this year at Stanford (May 4) and Berkeley (May 5).
Stanford – Wallenberg Hall, Room 433A
10:00 am. Welcome (Coffee and light refreshments)
10:15 am. Session 1
Moderated by Kathrin Gollwitzer, Berkeley