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The UBC Learning Exchange is seeking leaders for projects that will be completed during Reading Week in February, 2010, at…

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As a follow-up to the recent visit by the Head of the Canadian Mission to the EU, Ambassador Ross Hornby,…

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Marking another Institute success, IES Director Kurt Huebner has been selected by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) as one…

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David Brooks, a second year IES student, has recently won the highly competitive 2009 DAAD Graduate Scholarship. David is one…

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Dear WIGS, For those of you who have been following the discussion on German Studies — this is to let you know that a letter from WIGS was sent last week to Queens protesting against the closure of German. If anyone would like to follow that up with an individual or departmental email, the address, is vc.office@qub.ac.uk Best wishes, Sarah [...]

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Dear all,

Colleagues who are so inclined might be interested to hear that a Facebook group, ‘Save German at QUB’, has been set up…

Lyn

Dr Lyn Marven Lecturer in German, Faculty Director of Postgraduate Teaching School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies University of Liverpool Chatham Street Liverpool L69 7ZR Tel: +44 151 794 2754 www.liv.ac.uk/soclas

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Im Rahmen des Parlamentarischen Patenschafts-Programm werden im Programmjahr 2010/2011 wieder ca. 360 Schuelerinnen und Schueler im Alter zwischen 15 und 17 bzw. junge Berufstaetige im Alter zwischen 16 und 24 Jahren mit Hilfe eines Stipendiums des Deutschen Bundestages ein Austauschjahr in den USA verbringen koennen.

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Die ausgefuellten Bewerbungskarten muessen bei der jewils zustaendigen Austauschorganisation bis spaetestens 4. September 2009 eingegangen sein, damit die Bewerbungsfrist gewahrt ist.

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Giovanni Di Girolamo, Acting Head of the EU Delegation to Canada, visited the IES…

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NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC & ROMANCE STUDIES

‘Not an Essence but a Positioning’: German-Jewish Women Writers (1900-1938)

edited by Andrea Hammel and Godela Weiss-Sussex

ISBN: 978 0 85457 220 5 [244pp; 2009]

£42.00 This volume explores the relationship between identity – understood not as an essence, but rather a positioning – and the work of German-Jewish women authors. The period 1900-1938 provided them with a wide range of possible self-identifications, both between Jewish tradition (or ‘Jewish renaissance’) and acculturation, and between a traditional and modern understanding of the position of women. By examining their texts in the [...]

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Teaching Associate in German (vacancy ref. 14788) ___________________________________________

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Working in the Department of German, you will have recently completed, or be close to completion of, a PhD in the field of German and Austrian Studies, and may have existing publications. You must be committed to high quality and innovative teaching which draws in part on your own area of subject expertise. [...]