At the German Studies Association conference, 4-7 October 2007
Ted Rippey was commentator on the panel "Body (Re)building: Crisis and Corporeality in Twentieth Century Germany," and he gave a presentation ("Of Mass Destruction") on a panel devoted to Germany between the wars.

Christina Guenther presented "Documentary Film and Performance: Staging Bar/Bat Mitzvah in Vienna of the Twenty-First Century" on a panel on "New and Old European Identities in Recent Documentary Film"

At the conference in London, Journeys into Madness: Representing Mental Illness
in the Arts and Sciences, 1850-1930 Geoffrey Howes presented "Without Qualities, without Choice: The Representation of Madness in Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities." He also presented a paper to the Department of European Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.

BGSU Student Top in National Russian Essay Competition
In the Seventh Annual American Council of Teachers of Russian National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest, students from 52 universities and colleges submitted 650 essays. Each essay was ranked by three judges in Russia. Anna Glett placed first in the non-heritage speaker, level 2 category:

First Place (Non-Heritage Learners, Level 2)
Anna K. Glett, Bowling Green State University
Ellen Guigelaar, Kenyon College
Tomaasz Siergiejuk, Yale University
complete results here Seven Students Selected for Asian Exchanges

"Maifest," 28 April 2006
Over 400 students from 10 pre-college German programs took part in German language and culture activities and competitions on the BGSU campus.

March 2006 CONFERENCE
"Trajectories of Memory: Intergenerational Representations of the Holocaust
in History and the Arts," 23-26 March 2006, was a success.

SPRING BREAK IN AUSTRIA
A group of students spent spring break 2006 in Salzburg, Austria.
They gathered first-hand impressions of university while exploring the architecture, culture,
history, and geography of the city and its scenic alpine environs.
All full-time BGSU undergraduates are eligible to apply for next year's "Breakaway to Salzburg."

INTERNATIONAL FORUM
LITERARY READINGS FALL 2005

The department was pleased to host four visiting writers this semester - Liane Dirks, Sherko Fatah, Mariella Mehr, and Josef Haslinger. Their Friday readings are scheduled on 30 September, 21 October, 28 October, and 4 November.
More information.

BGSU RESEARCH CONFERENCE
The Book vs. the X-Box:
Is Literature Dying?"
FULL ANNOUCEMENT

The symposium was sponsored by
The Social Philosophy and Policy Center,
The Department of German, Russian and East Asian Languages,
The Department of Romance Languages,
and the College of Arts & Sciences on 4 November 2005
Pictures of the Conference

Sixteen members of the Russian Club attended
Mikhail Gorbachev's speech at Miami U., 24 October;
seventeen members saw the Cleveland Opera's
production of Eugene Onegin on 28 October.

Former German U.N. Ambassador Hans Arnold
was at BGSU 17 October. His visit was arranged by International Studies
Program Director Kristie Foell.

Tejano Oktoberfest Tuesday, 21 October
with Jesse Ponce and Band
was a great success!!!
It was sponsored by German Club and Latino Studient Union
with funding from Pepsi

Department to benefit from university's affiliation with the Henry R. Jackson Center. Story about the center, dedicated to Supreme Court Justice Jackson's legacy, and cooperation with faculty and graduate student researchers of the Nuremberg trials.

On 25 September graduate students and faculty attended preliminary meetings of the conference "Sixty Years after the Nuremberg Trials" at the Chautauqua Instititon. The conference was hosted by the Robert H. Jackson Center of Jamestown, New York. Bowling Green SU has a special relationship with the center.

Sarah Ford, BGSU 2005 Russian and German major, first BGSU student ever to
receive an undergraduate Fulbright award and one of only five in the U.S. to
receive a Fulbright to Russia next year. Sarah is returning to Izhevsk in fall 2006. Sarah is returning to Izhevsk for AY 2006-2007.
Read the full story!!! View photos.

Ted Rippey has two articles due to appear in 2006: "Rationalization, Race, and the Weimar Response to Jazz," in German Life and Letters; and "In Training: Brecht, Sport, and Modern Subjectivity (1920-1927)," in The Brecht Yearbook. Dr. Rippey will present papers on Fritz Lang's Fury at the 2006 German Studies Association Conference in Pittsburgh and on the problem of masculinity in Brecht's late-Weimar work at the 2006 Modern Language Association convention in Philadelphia.

Geoffrey C. Howes has been elected as member-at-large to the Executive Council of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association. His term as co-editor of the association's journal Modern Austrian Literature ended in 2005.

Geoffrey Howes recently presented two papers at the Midwest Modern Language Association conference in Milwaukee: "Madness in the Landscape Christine Lavant's Carinthian Poetry,"
and "A Course on German-Austrian Heritage Involving Undergraduate Research: Lessons Learned from the First Offering."

Dr. Howes's article "The Politics of Rhetoric in Some Recent Austrian Essays" appeared
in a special issue of New German Critique (93) on "Austrian Writers Confront the Past,"
edited by Steven Beller and Frank Trommler.

Ted Rippey's article "Athletics, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Weimar Press" appears in the February 2005 issue of German Studies Review (see: https://www.g-s-a.org/gsr).

Dr. Timothy Pogacar continues as chair of the annual Midwest Slavic Conference, hosted by Ohio State University's Center for Russian & East European Studies. The 2006 conference is 2-4 March. Volume 27 (2005) of Slovene Studies, edited by Dr. Pogacar, is to appear in December.

BGSU German faculty Christina Guenther and Geoffrey Howes, along with Professor Emerita Margy Gerber and BGSU graduate alumnus Nikhil Sathe presented a panel at the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association conference at the University of Montana in Missoula, 21-24 April 2005. Presentation titles. Dr. Edgar Landgraf has organized and will chair a panel at the annual meeting of ASECS (American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 30 through April 2) entitled "Improvisation and Late Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics." The session explores the role of "improvisation" in aesthetics, focusing on areas of aesthetic thought where improvisation implicitly or explicitly structures the modern definition (or performance) of art. The cross-disciplinary panel brings together researchers from Australia, Canada, and the US. Dr. Landgraf's article "The Disintegration of Modern Culture: Nietzsche and the Information Age" has appeared in the journal Comparative Literature.

On Monday, March 14, 2005 Dr. Christoph Veldhues of the Goethe Institut-Chicago gave a presentation entitled "Pro-Deutsch!" The presentation was on generating interest in German at the pre-college and college levels.

Dr. Irina Stakhanova was on the organizing committee for the Ohio Foreign Language Association's annual conference, Columbus, 10-12 March 2005.

Akiko Jones receives award
Professor Akiko Jones received a civic award “in recognition of her commitment and dedication to the community [and for] her work and concern for the welfare of others and relations among the citizens of Bowling Green.” The award was presented at Martin Luther King Day ceremonies at the Bowling Green municipal offices.

Department faculty honored

At a reception on 10 November 2004, Dr. Geoffrey C. Howes was honored by the Friends of the University Libraries with an "Authors and Artists Award" for his work as co-editor of Modern Austrian Literature. Dr. Howes has been co-editor with Jacqueline Vansant of the University of Michigan-Dearborn since 2000. The journal of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association (MALCA) is the only one in North America devoted to Austrian literature and culture.
Honorees were asked to select an item to be placed in the University Libraries in their name. Dr. Howes selected a book by his co-editor Dr. Jacqueline Vansant, Reclaiming Heimat: Trauma and Mourning in Memoirs by Jewish Austrian Reémigrés (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001).

At the same event, Dr. Kristie Foell was recognized for her articles "Growing Together, Growing Apart: Berlin Love Stories as Allegories of German Unification" and "Stefan Heym's Last Decade: Action and Reflection."

Dr. Foell aslo recently received the BGSU President's Award for Academic Advising of Students for her contribution as International Studies Program director to students' educational development. Dr. Foell was honored at the 7 February men's basketball game, where the announcer said: "Tonight we would like to recognize Dr. Kristie Foell. Dr. Foell is the director of International Studies and a faculty member in German, Russian and East Asian languages. Recently, Dr. Foell was honored with the President's Award for Academic Advising of Undergraduate Students. Dr. Foell was recognized not only for the work that she does helping students in the International Studies program successfully complete their degrees, but also for helping them to find meaningful employment when they graduate."