German Program receives Max Kade Foundation Grant
The University of Colorado German Program has received a grant in the
amount of $140,000 from the Max Kade Foundation in New York. This generous
grant will enable us to create the the Max Kade German Room in McKenna 112.
Renovation of the room will take place in summer 2009.
Dr. Greaney receives Provost Faculty Achievement Award
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Patrick Greaney, who has
received the Provost Faculty Achievement Award for Distinguished Research
for his recent book Untimely Beggar: Poverty and Power from Baudelaire to
Benjamin (Univ. Minnesota Press, 2008).
Dr. Mark Leiderman Publishes New Book
Paralogies:
The Transformations of the (Post)Modernist Discourse in
Russian Culture of the 1920s-2000s
Associate Professor Mark Leiderman (Lipovetsky) has recently published a new book. His book represents a rare genre of scholarly discussion of contemporary literature which distinguishes it both from literary journalism and literary histories. This book partially continues Lipovetsky�s earlier Russian Postmodernism: Essays of Historical Poetics (1997), however, this work presents a new theoretical and historical perspective on Russian postmodernism. Paralogies attempts to inscribe Russian postmodernism into the history of Russian modernism. Modernism incessantly criticizes and undermines itself, and postmodernism as one of the branches of modernist culture brings this practice to a new level. The book argues that Russian postmodernism is situated not after modernism - as one could assume from the literal reading of the term � but inside the modernism�s complicated and dramatic history, which is very far from completion along with the entire project of modernity.
Dr. Stimilli publishes two books
Congratulations to Associate Professor Davide Stimilli for the
recent publication of two books from his research on Aby Warburg: Ludwig
Binswanger-Aby Warburg, Die unendliche Heilung. Aby Warburgs
Krankengeschichte (Berlin: diaphanes 2007) and Aby Warburg, �Per Monstra ad
Sphaeram�: Sternglaube und Bilddeutung. Vortrag in Gedenken an Franz Boll
und andere Schriften 1923 bis 1925 (Hamburg: D�lling und Galitz 2008)
Petra Watzke Awarded a George Scherer Travel Scholarship
Congratulations to Petra Watzke for being awarded a George Scherer Travel Scholarship! Petra will be presenting a paper at the European Studies Conference in Omaha, and she will participate in a poster session at the annual conference of Women in German in Snowbird, Utah. George Scherer Scholarships support students for travel to conferences, internships, research or study abroad. The scholarship is in memory of Professor George A.C. Scherer, former Professor of Germanic languages at CU-Boulder. Professor Scherer also served as chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and was director of the Academic Year Institute for Teachers of German and the summer Modern Language Institute.
For Copy Submitted by Petra Watzke
