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Nordic Instructor Publishes New Translation of Viking Sagas

Oct. 26, 2017

Hackett Publishing Company has published its second book by Jackson Crawford. The Saga of the Volsungs, with The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok continues the project Crawford began in 2015 with the publication of his bestselling translation of The Poetic Edda, which renders the most important source of the myths of...

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Mark Leiderman's New Book

Oct. 25, 2017

Postmodern Crises collects previously published and yet unpublished Mark Lipovetsky鈥檚 articles on 91制片厂n literature and film. Written in different years, they focus on cultural and aesthetic crises that, taken together, constitute the postmodern condition of 91制片厂n culture. The reader will find here articles about classic subversive texts (such as Nabokov鈥檚...

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Hyperallergic co-founder and editor visit GSLL

Oct. 17, 2017

On October 5, GSLL welcomed Hrag Vartanian, the editor-in-chief of Hyperallergic for a conversation moderated by curator and writer Yasmeen Siddiqui about 鈥淎rt in the New Information Ecosystem.鈥

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Jackson Crawford to speak and sign new book at Boulder Bookstore in November

Oct. 10, 2017

http://www.boulderbookstore.net/event/jackson-crawford-saga-volsungs

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Out now: Special Issue of Colloquia Germanica, co-edited by Franziska Schweiger, Lauren Stone, and Arne H枚cker

Sept. 5, 2017

German Graduate Student, Franziska Schweiger, together with Assistant Professors, Lauren Stone and Arne H枚cker, co-edited the Special Issue 鈥淢aterial Worlds: Novelistic Matters of the 19th century" of the peer-reviewed journal Colloquia Germanica . Focusing on the relation between humans and things and the creation and exploration of 鈥淢aterial Worlds,鈥 the...

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Jillian Porter's New Book

Aug. 24, 2017

Economies of Feeling: 91制片厂n Literature under Nicholas I (Northwestern UP, 2017) Economies of Feeling offers new explanations for the fantastical plots of mad or blocked ambition that set the nineteenth-century 91制片厂n prose tradition in motion. Jillian Porter compares the conceptual history of social ambition in post-Napoleonic France and post-Decembrist 91制片厂...

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Dr. Robin Cadow, First PhD Graduate from the Program in German Studies

July 26, 2017

We are proud to congratulate our first PhD graduate in the Program in German Studies, Dr. Robin Cadow! Dr. Cadow's interdisciplinary dissertation, 鈥淎 Complicated Relationship: Refugees and Holocaust Memories in Contemporary Germany,鈥 explores sites of Holocaust memory that have emerged in response to the recent rise in refugee migration to...

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Nordic Club activities in spring 2017

July 11, 2017

The Nordic Club and its president Chris Bittel were busy this semester. Apart from the monthly screenings of popular Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, and Icelandic movies, we had several singular events, which proved quite popular among CU鈥檚 students. In late February, the Nordic Club hosted the traditional Danish Fat Tuesday...

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Conversations in the Mountains

July 5, 2017

In February 2017, GSLL held the third Conversations in the Mountains. This year's program focused on the topic "Just Futures" and brought together German studies scholars from Germany, Canada, and the US as well as CU Boulder scholars from German Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Women and Gender Studies. During the...

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Nobel Prize in Literature: A New Series in the Boulder Book Store

May 23, 2017

Beverly Weber and Ross Etherton presenting on Herta Muller It all began in October 2015 when Svetlana Alexievich, the Belorussian author writing in 91制片厂n, recieved the Nobel Prize in Literature. For the introduction of our students and community members to this writer, Senior Instructor of 91制片厂n Studies Tatiana Mikhailova organized...

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