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CU will hold all classes remotely starting Monday, March 16, 2020. GSLL will start to hold most classes remotely starting Wednesday, March 11 or Thursday, March 12. GSLL staff will be working remotely and can be contacted via email: Karen.Hawley@colorado.edu or Casey.Koehler@colorado.edu

Adi Nester, who will graduate from the German PhD program in May, accepted a tenure track position as Assistant Professor of German-Jewish Studies at the University of North-Carolina in Chapel Hill. Congratulations, Adi!

German learners from Cherry Creek High School, Broomfield High School, Boulder High School, and Shining Mountain Waldorf School explored the CU campus on February 28 as part of the German Language Immersion Day. High school students tested their knowledge on German- American art, music, and popular culture in a game...

Congratulations to Professor Helmut Müller-Sievers for his selection as CU's 2019 Distinguished Research Lecturer! As the official announcement says, "The Lectureship is among the most esteemed honors bestowed by the faculty upon a faculty member at the University of Colorado Boulder." Professor Müller-Sievers will be delivering his lecture titled "Engineering...

Students of the fall semester German 2020 course won second and third prizes in the national contest First Encounters (organized by the American Association of Teachers of German) in which learners were invited to explore the German roots and German-American encounters in their own communities and to document and share...

What did the first encounters between German immigrants and the local American population look like? How did Germans adjust to their new environment abroad? And what challenges and problems occurred during these transnational and transcultural encounters? Students of CU Boulder’s second-year German language course sought answers to these and other...

Professor Artemi Romanov’s new book Спорт и Холодная Война , Том 1 (Sports and the Cold War, Volume 1) , was published by Herzen University Press. The book examines the interrelationships of sports and politics during the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s. Sport was an important symbol for...

Students in Professor Greaney’s graduate course on concrete art and concrete poetry curated an exhibition in the CU Art Museum. The exhibition OBJECT:COLOR brings together seven artists’ works that are unified by the use of basic compositional elements—line, shape, and color—to influence the viewer’s experience of the artworks’ physical limits...

Emily Frazier-Rath who received her Ph.D. in German Studies this spring will begin her new post as Visiting Assistant Professor at Davidson College this summer. Congratulations, Emily!

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