Humanities

Department Website

http://artsci.washington.edu/divisions/humanities

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  Sabine Wilke

  Professor Emerita

News

• Field Trip to NOAA Sound Garden (May 18, 2025)
• Congratulations to the Class of 2024-2025! (May 15, 2025)
• REGISTER NOW :: Fun English-language courses :: Fall 2025 (May 15, 2025)
• Just Say NEIN :: PODCAST (May 14, 2025)
• Sammy McLean Awards 2025 (May 14, 2025)
• Diana Behler Memorial Lecture (May 14, 2025)
• The Magic Flute and UW German Studies (May 13, 2025)
• Documenta 15 :: Art and Antisemitism in Germany Today (May 8, 2025)
• Departmental Seminar: A Conversation about a Poem by Paul Celan (May 6, 2025)
• Department Calendar: Spring 2025 (May 5, 2025)
• Anna Malin Gerke Attends Los Angeles Review of Books Workshop (December 11, 2024)
• UW and Goethe Studies (November 14, 2024)
• Support Us (November 13, 2024)
• Upcoming Courses: Origins of the Germanic Languages; Fairy Tales; and Cultures of Music (November 12, 2024)
• Goethe-Institut's Summer Academy in Dresden (November 6, 2024)
• News from our Graduate Students: Melissa Ayar (November 6, 2024)
• Adventures in Research: Faculty (November 6, 2024)
• Four UW German Studies PhDs land Jobs at Colleges across the Country (November 4, 2024)
• Goethe-Institut's Summer Academy in Dresden (November 4, 2024)
• Germanisten in the World of Coca-Cola (October 31, 2024)
• Study Abroad: Summer in Berlin 2024 (October 31, 2024)
• Upcoming Courses:  Fairy Tales and the Environmental Imagination (October 23, 2024)
• Upcoming Courses: Cultures of Music: Harmony and Discord (October 22, 2024)
• In Memoriam: Diana Behler (1938 - 2024) (September 25, 2024)
• Memorial for Chuck Barrack (1938-2024) (September 24, 2024)
• Congratulations to the 2024 German Graduates and Student Awardees! (May 23, 2024)
• Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference 2024: Culture and Conflict (May 21, 2024)
• Book Talk with Miriam Stein: Thoughts on Contemporary Wisdom (May 15, 2024)
• REGISTER NOW :: Fun English-language courses :: Fall 2024 (May 15, 2024)
• German Club/Euro Club May Day Celebration (May 15, 2024)
• Chair's Letter Spring Newsletter 2024 (May 15, 2024)
• Racemaking in Europe: White imaginaries and the MENA diaspora (May 15, 2024)
• News from our Grad Students: Catherine Rensmann (May 14, 2024)
• Sammy McLean Awards 2024 (May 14, 2024)
• News from our Grad Students: Aline Franzus (May 14, 2024)
• Yannick Wey,  Alpine Vibes – Callings and Echoes of the Alps :: A Performance-Lecture on Swiss Alphorn Music (May 14, 2024)
• Aaron Carpenter interviews Distinguished Max Kade Professor Frederike Middelhoff (May 13, 2024)
• Prof. Rafael Balling has been awarded Jewish/Queer/Trans Fellowship at Frankel Institute (May 13, 2024)
• Junior Lizzie Feir invites you to Check out German at UW! (May 7, 2024)
• Max Czollek: Memorials Won't Help Us Now! (May 7, 2024)
• Tribute to Rosalie Motz Russell (April 25, 2024)
• New Kade Fellows: Martin Schwartz (November 21, 2023)
• New Kade Fellows: Arpit Samuel (November 21, 2023)
• Adventures in Research: Faculty (November 20, 2023)
• Faculty Research: Jason Groves (November 20, 2023)
• Adventures in Research: Graduate Students (November 20, 2023)
• REGISTER NOW! Cool Courses :: Winter 2024 (November 16, 2023)
• I am First-Generation: Annegret Oehme (November 10, 2023)
• Grad Student Research: Inga Schwemin (November 8, 2023)
• Graduate Students Update: Matthew Childs (November 8, 2023)
• New Faculty:  Rafael Balling (November 8, 2023)
• New Faculty: Andre Schuetze (November 7, 2023)
• UW German Studies Expresses its Gratitude to Retiring Professor Sabine Wilke (November 6, 2023)
• Generous Donation in Memory of Hellmut Ammerlahn (November 2, 2023)
• Study Abroad: Spring in Vienna and Summer in Berlin (October 25, 2023)
• Alumni Update: Alex Minami, Seattle Opera (October 3, 2023)
• Fall Film Series: Aus Ruinen :: East German Depictions of the Second World War (October 2, 2023)
• KAFFEESTUNDE :: Fall 2023 (September 28, 2023)
• GERMAN CLUB :: Fall 2023 (September 27, 2023)
• Introduction to German Studies: A Multi-Cultural Approach (September 26, 2023)
• LEARNING GERMAN THROUGH AN LBGTQ+ LENS (September 26, 2023)
• STUDY ABROAD :: Spring in Vienna 2024   (September 19, 2023)
• German Studies Departmental Seminars: Winter and Spring 2023 (May 8, 2023)
• New Opportunity Launched for German 446: Internship / Service-Learning (May 8, 2023)
• Rachel Lundeen wins prestigious Lederman Endowed Scholarship (May 5, 2023)
• Hanauer Seminar 2022-23 :: Environments in the 21st Century: Migration, Climate, Extinction, In/humanness, Non-Humans and Beyond (May 3, 2023)
• News from our Graduate Students: Matthew Childs (April 27, 2023)
• News from our Graduate Students: Rebecca-Sophie Glaw (April 26, 2023)
• News from our Graduate Students: Martina Sijakovic (April 26, 2023)
• Margarethe von Trotta Film Series (April 18, 2023)
• German Club Spring 2023 (April 13, 2023)
• DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR:  A conversation about the film Mädchen in Uniform (April 12, 2023)
• KAFFEESTUNDE (April 11, 2023)
• Student Projects: Das Märchen von der Meerjungfrau (March 6, 2023)
• Student Projects: Why Is There No Speed Limit on the Autobahn  (March 1, 2023)
• German Studies Seminar: Time, Space, and Travel in Selected Works by Annemarie Schwarzenbach (February 23, 2023)
• Cool Courses in Spring: Voices and Themes in Contemporary German Literature (February 16, 2023)
• Spring 2023: Featured Courses in English (February 9, 2023)
• 2023 German Studies Undergraduate Research Showcase (March 11-12) (February 8, 2023)
• Theo and Rachel’s Revolutionary Discoveries (February 2, 2023)
• In Memoriam: Professor Manfred Bansleben (1941-2022) (January 31, 2023)
• Winter 2023: German Club (January 12, 2023)
• Welcome to the Revolution! (November 1, 2022)
• Featured Courses - Winter 2023: Travel and Narration (November 1, 2022)
• Register for our Featured Courses - Winter 2023: Cultures of Extinction (November 1, 2022)
• News from our Graduate Students: Inga Schwemin (October 24, 2022)
• Support Us (October 24, 2022)
• End-of-Year Appeal 2022 (October 24, 2022)
• News from our Graduate Students: Shallom Ogungbade in Nigeria (October 24, 2022)
• News from our Graduate Students: Aaron Carpenter (October 24, 2022)
• News from our Graduate Students: Sam Romanelli  (October 24, 2022)
• German Club: Autumn Events (October 21, 2022)
• News from our Alums: Miah Robert (BA 2022) (October 21, 2022)
• Student Testimonials - Summer in Berlin 2022 (October 20, 2022)
• Study Abroad 2022: Wir haben noch einen Koffer in Berlin (October 20, 2022)
• Faculty Update: Jason Groves (October 19, 2022)
• PANEL | A Zeitenwende (turn of an era) for Germany? (October 17, 2022)
• Tristan & Isolde - Upcoming Events (October 5, 2022)
• Tristan & Isolde at the Seattle Opera, Podcast (October 4, 2022)
• German Club - Events Fall 2022 (September 27, 2022)
• News from our Graduate Students: Aaron Carpenter :: Geographie mit Adorno :: (June 2, 2022)
• New Faculty Publication by Brigitte Prutti: Franz Grillparzer, Neue Lektüren und Perspektiven (May 10, 2022)
• New Faculty Publication by Richard Block: Mourning Becomes Electric: The Disappearing Act of AIDS. (May 9, 2022)
• News from our Alums: Vanessa Hester (PhD 2021) (May 9, 2022)
• News from our Graduate Students: Matthew Childs (May 9, 2022)
• Congratulations to the Class of 2022-2023! (May 9, 2022)
• News from our Alums: Richard Sperber (PhD 1995) (May 9, 2022)
• News from our Graduate Students: Sophia Schuessler (May 8, 2022)
• News from our Graduate Students: PhD Candidate Justin Mohler (May 8, 2022)
• German Studies Undergraduate Research Showcase (May 5, 2022)
• Hanauer Seminar 2021-22 :: Environments in the 21st Century: Migration, Climate, Extinction, In/humanness, Non-Humans and Beyond (May 4, 2022)
• German Club Events - Spring 2022 (April 25, 2022)
• Call for Submissions: German Studies Undergraduate Research Showcase 2022  (February 9, 2022)
• Spring 2022 Cool Courses - Open To All Students (January 26, 2022)
• Winter Film Series: Zukunftsvisionen: Speculative Futures of Weimar, the East, and the West (January 26, 2022)
• GERMAN CLUB: IM GESPRÄCH (January 13, 2022)
• Cool Courses for Winter 2022 - Open to All Students (December 13, 2021)
• Graduate Student Update: Hannah Bradley Kondo (October 23, 2021)
• Graduate Student Update: Sam Romanelli (October 23, 2021)
• News from our Alums: Japhet Johnstone (PhD 2016) (October 20, 2021)
• News from our Alums: Nicole Calian (PhD 2008) (October 20, 2021)
• Summer in Berlin 2022 Info Session (October 20, 2021)
• Featured Faculty:  Annegret Oehme (October 18, 2021)
• Autumn Film Series:  Jewish Life in Germany (October 18, 2021)
• German Club: Weekly Stammtisch - Autumn Quarter 2021 (October 13, 2021)
• News from our Alums: Phillip Ayoub (May 24, 2021)
• Congratulations to the Class of 2020 - 2021! (May 20, 2021)
• Graduate Student Update: Aaron Carpenter (May 18, 2021)
• News from our Alums: Anke Biendarra, Class of 2003 (May 18, 2021)
• Graduate Student Update: Anshuang Yang (May 17, 2021)
• Graduate Student Update: Justin Mohler (May 17, 2021)
• Graduate Student Update: Matthew Childs (May 17, 2021)
• Graduate Student Update: Jeffrey Jarzomb (May 17, 2021)
• Newly Minted PhD: Vanessa Hester (May 14, 2021)
• Student Spotlight: Sara Koeck (May 6, 2021)
• Student Spotlight: Madison Keiran (May 6, 2021)
• McLean Prize for Excellence in German: Praewpetch (Pattie) Unakul (May 6, 2021)
• Cool Courses Fall 2021 - Campus Tour: A Multicultural Introduction To German Studies (May 5, 2021)
• Virtual Visit by Professor Fatima El-Tayeb (May 4, 2021)
• Hanauer Seminar 2020-21: Environments in the 21st Century (May 4, 2021)
• Cool Courses Summer 2021: Witchcraft: From History to Pop Culture (April 28, 2021)
• In Memory of Joe Voyles (April 27, 2021)
• The German Club presents: Virtual Game Night (April 26, 2021)
• Graduate Student Update: Anna Malin Gerke: Das letzte Wort (March 31, 2021)
• Faculty Update: Kye Terrasi (March 31, 2021)
• Unorthodox - Netflix Viewing Party (March 30, 2021)
• Jason Groves re-imagines the Humanities with new spring course, Exposed: Public Environmental Humanities (February 12, 2021)
• Cool Courses in English -- Spring 2021 (February 9, 2021)
• Find out fast about possible exposures to COVID-19 (December 9, 2020)
• "Unorthodox" - Netflix Viewing Party (November 4, 2020)
• Cool Courses - Winter 2021 (November 4, 2020)
• News from our Alums: Stephanie Dawson (PhD 2003) (November 4, 2020)
• Newly minted adjuncts and affiliates: Colin Marshall (November 4, 2020)
• News from our Alums:  Joshua Glassmyer (BA 2015) (November 4, 2020)
• Faculty Updates: Laurie Marhoefer  (November 4, 2020)
• Newly minted adjuncts and affiliates: Susanne Rinner (November 4, 2020)
• Newly minted adjuncts and affiliates: André Schuetze  (November 4, 2020)
• Faculty Updates: Sabine Lang (November 3, 2020)
• Thank you to our donors (November 2, 2020)
• Anna Malin Gerke: Slow Down and Appreciate the Little Things (October 29, 2020)
• Vienna on my mind (October 29, 2020)
• Matthew Childs: Beneath Red Skies (October 28, 2020)
• Justin Mohler: The Lives of Animals (October 27, 2020)
• Marshall Brown: Goethe and the Yo-Yo (October 26, 2020)
• New Faculty Publication: Monika Kaup, New Ecological Realisms: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory (October 20, 2020)
• Teaching German in Prison: Experiencing Our Society’s Inequities in a Drastically Crystallized Form (October 15, 2020)
• Diversity in Germany Film Series (October 14, 2020)
• New Faculty Publication: Joe Voyles and Charles Barrack: Proto-Indo-European Word Stress: Its Lithuanian Reflex (October 13, 2020)
• Alexa, What are our Alums at Amazon up to? Meet Alex Estes (BA 2013) (October 7, 2020)
• Welcome to the Revolution! (September 21, 2020)
• Madeline Bonner (BA 2020), Dean's Medalist in the Humanities, featured in July Perspectives Magazine (July 22, 2020)
• COVID-19 Global Conversation: Germany (June 15, 2020)
• Convocation in a Time of Pandemic: Video Link (June 15, 2020)
• News from our alums: Solidarity and Its Limits by Anke Biendarra (PhD 2003)  (June 10, 2020)
• Not Just Another Brick in the Wall (June 9, 2020)
• Annegret Oehme receives TTFI Fellowship (June 9, 2020)
• Congratulations to Aaron Carpenter: Hanauer Fellow 2020-2021 (June 9, 2020)
• GSA Initiative for Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion (June 4, 2020)
• Q&A with Annegret Oehme (May 27, 2020)
• Madeline Bonner Selected for Dean’s Medal in the Humanities!  (May 25, 2020)
• Congratulations to the Class of 2019-2020! (May 23, 2020)
• English-language Courses in the Fall (May 23, 2020)
• New Faculty Publication by Jason Groves: The Geological Unconscious   (May 22, 2020)
• Portrayals of the Holocaust in Film (May 21, 2020)
• Hanauer Seminar Projects 2019-20: Environments in the Anthropocene: Migration, Climate, Non-Humans and Beyond (May 21, 2020)
• Why I learn German in a Time of Pandemic (Emma Stuart, German 202)  (May 21, 2020)
• Recent notable book by Annegret Oehme looks at female agency in Arthurian legend  (May 13, 2020)
• Achtung Freshmen: Grant from The Mellon Foundation for your First Year Experience (May 12, 2020)
• How Compassionate Are You?  "Sympathy for the Devil" Team Projects, 2020 (May 8, 2020)
• Graduate student conference: Rewriting Trauma   (February 27, 2020)
• New Faculty Publication by Annegret Oehme: “He should have listened to his wife!”  (February 3, 2020)
• Gearing up for Dawg Daze and Kick Before the Flick 2019! (September 13, 2019)
• Language departments kick off the new academic year at Dawg Daze 2018! (December 11, 2018)
• Kicking off the new year at Dawg Daze 2018! (September 6, 2018)
• Sympathy for the Devil (German 385) Team Projects, 2017 (June 13, 2018)
• Being a Hedgehog: Isolation, Creativity, and Destruction (May 8, 2018)
• How Compassionate Are You?  Student projects from Fall '16 Germanics course: "Sympathy for the Devil" (March 8, 2017)
• Anthropocene Research Circle announced for 2016-17 academic year (September 15, 2016)
• Jason Groves receives Simpson Center funding to establish an Interdisciplinary Research Cluster (June 17, 2016)
• Graduate Student Conference: Insiders, Outsiders, & In-Betweens (June 17, 2016)
• Discovering Sympathy for the Devil this Autumn Quarter (May 18, 2016)
• Cross-Disciplinary Lecture Series in Germanics (March 7, 2016)
• New Course Offering for Winter 2016: Cultures of Extinction (December 1, 2015)
• Richard Gray's graduate seminar in autumn 2015 :: W. G. Sebald’s Prose Fictions   (May 21, 2015)
• Hear Ye, Hear Ye: Medieval Literature Course to be Offered Summer 2015 (April 13, 2015)
• Faculty Friday: Eric Ames featured on The Whole U (April 3, 2015)
• Berlinale 2015 Film Reviews by Graduate Student, Jasmin Krakenberg (February 10, 2015)
• Popular Germanics courses offered in English (October 30, 2014)
• Joe Voyles retires after nearly 50 years of teaching at the UW! (June 11, 2014)
• Interview with Prof. Michael Rosenthal (UW Philosophy) about Hannah Arendt (October 15, 2013)
• The Environment, the Holocaust in Film, and the Devil: Winter 2014 Undergraduate Course Offerings (October 10, 2013)
• UW Screening of Margarethe von Trotta's new film, HANNAH ARENDT (2012)  (October 4, 2013)