German News

Funded German and Film Taster Day, 19 September 2024

Jay Richardson — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 12:48:42 +0000

All school groups and pupils are invited to attend a taster day on 19 September 2024, co-hosted by the Goethe Institute and the German Section at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, ��ϲʿ��¼. Register for the Taster Day Please register by 20 August. The Taster Day is aimed at pupils...

Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body

Charlotte Lee — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 04:57:50 +0000

Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body, a major new exhibition co-curated by Prof Chris Young (German) and Prof Caroline Vout (Classics), has opened at the Fitzwilliam Museum, and will run until 3 November 2024.

New books on Goethe and Romanticism

Charlotte Lee — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:15:44 +0000

Read on for details of two new books on Goethe and the period around 1800, which are intended for researchers and for the general reader alike. Both are edited by Charlotte Lee.

Diversity in German Studies - CPD workshop for teachers of German

Charlotte Lee — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 09:00:58 +0000

On 1 July 2024, we were delighted to welcome secondary teachers of German to Selwyn College for 'Diversity in German Studies', an in-person workshop. This was the final event in a year-long series of online seminars. Diversity features in A-level German teaching both as a highlighted aspect of contemporary society and as a...

German ��ϲʿ��¼ Roadshow

K.E. Crowcroft — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:08:40 +0000

The German Section at ��ϲʿ��¼ hosted a Goethe Institut Careers Roadshow on Friday 28 June, promoting the study of German and the breadth of careers that a German degree can open up. As well as providing admissions information and a taster session with current students, we hosted local businesses, the Goethe Institut...

Dr Tara Talwar Windsor's lecture in "Resonanzen - Schwarzes Internationales Literaturfestival"

Charlotte Lee — Thu, 23 May 2024 21:08:42 +0000

Dr Tara Talwar Windsor gave a lecture on Friday 31 May in "Resonanzen - Schwarzes Internationales Literaturfestival " in Recklinghausen, a four-day event dedicated to the celebration of Black German-language fiction, curated by Sharon Dodua Otoo and Patricia Eckermann.

PhD student in German wins book proposal prize

Charlotte Lee — Mon, 13 May 2024 15:30:45 +0000

We are delighted to announce that Katie Unwin has won a prize in the Oxford German Olympiad, presented in association with major publisher, Camden House.

Modern Languages taster day at ��ϲʿ��¼ on Saturday 11th May 2024

Amani Ameer — Thu, 02 May 2024 14:40:06 +0000

Modern Languages taster day at ��ϲʿ��¼ on Saturday 11th May 2024 (11:00-16:30). This event is geared primarily towards UK-domiciled State School students of colour who are currently in Year 12 (England and Wales), Year 13 (Northern Ireland) and S5 (Scotland). The programme contains a series of talks to provide an insight...

What’s novel about a novel? Storytelling and travelling knowledge – Shida Bazyar in conversation with Miriam Schwarz & Tara Talwar Windsor

Amani Ameer — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 13:03:04 +0000

Join prize-winning novelist Shida Bazyar in conversation with Miriam Schwarz and Tara Talwar Windsor to discuss how novels take their characters and their readers on journeys across cultural contexts, and how this can make both characters and readers re-assess the things they think they know.

German Graduate Research Series - Conduct, Culture, and Critique: Anthropologies of Ethico-Aesthetic Traditions

Amani Ameer — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 15:45:16 +0000

The next event in this term’s German Graduate Research Seminar series, a collaboration with the Social Anthropology Society (CUSAS), will take place on Thursday 7 March at 16:00 in the Edmund Leach Seminar Room in the Department of Social Anthropology.