Departmental News
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Professor Claire Kramsch receives MLA’s Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize
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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The Department invites applications for multi-year doctoral fellowships in all areas, including cross-disciplinary studies. In cooperation with the Center for Jewish Studies we also offer support for students working on German-Jewish topics. In addition, we are proud to announce the newly established Sunrise Foundation Fellowship in German Film and Media.To apply, please consult the Graduate section of our website.
Read moreNovember 1, 2019
The Department invites applications for multi-year doctoral fellowships in all areas, including cross-disciplinary studies. In cooperation with the Center for Jewish Studies we also offer support for students working on German-Jewish topics. In addition, we are very proud to announce the newly established Sunrise Foundation https://german.berkeley.edu/news-events/news/ Fellowship in German Film and Media. To apply, please click here https://german.berkeley.edu/graduate/prospectives/
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Professor Deniz Göktürk published a book on the social dynamics of humor: Komik der Integration. Grenzpraktiken und Identifikationen des Sozialen, co-edited with Uwe Wirth and Özkan Ezli
Read moreOctober 24, 2019
Das Anliegen dieses Bandes ist es zu klären, wie Praktiken und Konzepte der Integration komisch in Frage gestellt werden, aber auch, wie das Komische als Grenzphänomen sozialer und kultureller Übereinkünfte in Erscheinung tritt. Ausgangsthese ist, dass das Komische stillschweigend gemachte Annahmen darüber, welches Wissen und welche Werte von allen geteilt werden sollten, thematisch werden lässt. Aus anthropologischer, soziologischer, linguistischer und literaturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive versuchen die Beiträge dieses Bandes die Komik der Integration in den Blick zu nehmen – und dadurch Aufschlüsse über die kulturellen Grundlagen von Integration zu gewinnen.
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Gift of New Fellowship
Read moreSeptember 27, 2019
We are grateful to the Sunrise Foundation for the establishment of a new Fellowship in German Film & Media. The Sunrise Foundation for Education and the Arts has a central mission in the promotion of German film and media. It recently sponsored the reconstruction and distribution of several classic silent films (Das alte Gesetz 1923 and Die Stadt ohne Juden 1924) and has supported the academic study of German cinema through workshops and seminars.
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September 20, 2019
The Department invites applications for multi-year doctoral fellowships in all areas, including cross-disciplinary studies. In cooperation with the Center for Jewish Studies we also offer support for students working on German-Jewish topics. In addition, we are very proud to announce the newly established Sunrise Foundation Fellowship in German Film and Media. For more information about applications, please see our website's section on graduate admissions. https://german.berkeley.edu/graduate/admissions/
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Graduate student Landon Reitz presented in May at the 54th International Congress on Medieval States. His paper was entitled “Reading with the Entire Body.”
Read moreSeptember 3, 2019
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The Max Kade Foundation provided 2019 summer travel support to 15 UC Berkeley graduate students.
Read moreSeptember 3, 2019
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Professor Niklaus Largier hosted and co-taught a weeklong summer school at UC Berkeley on the topic “Formen des Übens” in August 2019, as part of a cooperation with Universität zu Köln.
Read moreSeptember 3, 2019
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Graduate students Jarrett Dury-Agri, Alicia Roy, Michael Sandberg, and Cara Tovey presented their work at the June 2019 BTWH (Berkeley-Tübingen-Wien-Harvard) international working group conference in Bale, Croatia, on the topic “Verdinglichung/Reification.”
Read moreSeptember 3, 2019