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

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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.

Check out the announcement by Stanford University Press of Kathryn Hellerstein's book, A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987!

The Penn German Club is a group of graduate and undergraduate students passionate about German langauage and culture. For more information on the Club's weekly Stammtische and other cultural events, please refer to the attached flyer.

The Penn German Club is a group of graduate and undergraduate students passionate about German langauage and culture. For more information on the Club's weekly Stammtische and other cultural events, please refer to the attached flyer.

This is Dan DiMassa’s final year in the graduate program and a lot of things are falling into place. He’s making terrific progress on his dissertation on the reception of Dante around 1800.