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(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)