german and scandinavian studies
@ UMass Amherst
NEWS:
◊ Lecture, April 10,
2008:
“Yiddish Theatre: A New Look at its 19th-century
Context”
Prof. Klaus Hödl (Uni-Graz)
will lecture on 19th-century Yiddish theater and
its public. The
event will begin at 5:30
pm at the National Yiddish
Book Center (Hampshire
College
campus). For more
information, contact Prof.
Skolnik.
◊
Conference,
April 11, 2008:
Wrocław/Breslau: Poles, Germans, Jews and their City
We are proud to sponsor a
major conference on the history
and culture of this “multi-ethnic” city –
from the 1800s though the Holocaust
and the postwar – and its legacy in a new Europe.
The
conference will take place from 9:30
to 5 pm
at the National
Yiddish Book Center (Hampshire
College
campus). For more
information, contact Prof.
Skolnik.
◊ Professor Lennox to receive
Chancellor’s Medal
Congratulations to Prof. Sara
Lennox! She has been invited to present a Distinguished
Faculty Lecture, where she will be presented with the University of
Massachusetts Chancellor’s Medal. Her lecture,
“Claiming Blackness in Germany,” will be given on
Monday, April 28, 2008 at 4 pm in the Massachusetts Room of the Mullins
Center. A reception will follow.
For more information:
http://www.umass.edu/provost/award/campus/lecture.html
◊
New! Ph.D. Dissertation Archive
Search and browse recent PhD dissertations in our
department at:
http://scholarworks.umass.edu/germanic_diss/
◊ MYTH Conference
Hosted by Graduate Students
Our third biennial graduate student conference was
entitled MYTH:
A Graduate Conference in German & Scandinavian Studies
and was held on February 15-17, 2008 in Herter
601. The conference featured seventeen panelists
from around the world discussing myths and myth-making, ancient and
modern.
For more information:
http://www.umass.edu/germanic/myth
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