The Penn Libraries’ historic collection of research material on German immigrants to Pennsylvania recently grew to include a set of nine German-language newspapers published in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century.

The Jewish Book Council has named University of Pennsylvania professor Kathryn Hellerstein recipient of the 2014

Visiting Professor Yasemin Dayioglu-Yücel recently co-edited the fifth volume of Türkisch-deutsche Studien, entitled "In der Welt der Proteste und Umwälzungen."

Didem Uca, a second-year PhD student in the department, and co-author Kate Zambon won the Top Student Paper Award in the Popular Communication Division at the 2014 conference of the International Communication Association.

Visiting Professor Yasemin Dayioglu-Yücel has recently edited the fourth volume of Türkisch-deutsche Studien, entitled "Jugendbilder - Repräsentationen von Jugend in Medien und Politik"

From the publisher:

As a summer intern at the museum of the Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum, Didem Uca assisted in the editing of, and translated into English, a new exhibition called, "Bleiben?!

Fugitive Objects: Sculpture and Literature in the German Nineteenth Century, forthcoming in December from Northwestern University Press.

Simon Richter argues that Johann Gottfried Herder is the "father of rock and roll." in an essay in a new anthology called Rammstein on Fire: New Perspectives on the Music and Performances, edited by John T. Littlejohn and Michael T. Putnam.

WIG has just announced that Claire "CJ" Jones has won this prestigious award for her dissertation on Communal Song and the Theology of Voice in Medieval German Mysticism.

Participants at the German Studies Association Meeting in early October in Denver couldn't help but notice a strong Penn presence. There were so many Penn people, we are planning to host a cash-bar for Penn alumni at the next GSA.