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winter-spring 2012

Cultural and program events and other news

Thursday, 16 Feb. at 6 P.M. in Shatzel Hall 101 the International Forum will host Dr. Christina Guenther and Dr. Satomi Saito speaking about their current research. flyer here
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The Russian folk ensemble Golden Gates will perform at the Firelands and main campuses 16 & 17 February 2012. The Firelands performance is at 7 P.M. The Bowling Green performance is at 7:30 P.M. in the Sky Bank Room of the B-T Student Union. The performances are made possible by the BGSU Ethnic Cultural Arts Program and the Russian Club.
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The department's writer in residence in spring 2012 will be Angelika Reitzer. She will conduct a workshop with graduate and advanced undergraduate students of German and devote her time to her creative works. Angelika Reitzer' s web page. Angelika Reitzer zu Gast's residence is made possible by a generous grant from the Max Kade Foundation of New York, with additional support from the BGSU Office of Residence Life.
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The December 2011 Austria alumni newsletter has been published (recent newsletters: Summer 2011 Austria and winter 2010).
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Faculty members launch the Language Services Group with economic development grant. Television news story 1 (WTOL Toledo)
Television news story 2 (Fox Toledo News)
Link to the Language Services Group
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U.S. federal departments list languages vital to the country's interests. See the list here
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U.S. Air Force ROTC Express scholarships are available to students of Chinese and Russian. Contact the BGSU ROTC office.Express Scholarship fact sheet here.
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Complete your B.A. in German and add an M.A. with only one additional year of study!
Requirements.

Other recent news
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The 38th Nakama no Kai Japanese-American business meeting took place 19 January. The guest speaker was Christiane Schmenk of the Ohio Department of Development. Over 50 people attended, including Consul General Kuninori Matsuda and BGSU President Mary Ellen Mazey. Flyer with full information here.
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The Russian Club's 6 December holiday meeting featured a visit by Ded moroz and Snegurochka.
See the club's website.
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A highlight of the fall semester was the Chinese calligraphy demonstration in the School of Art.
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Whitney Markus, currently studying at Saitama University, was named the 2011 Charles and Wanda Rich Scholarship recipient for study abroad.
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BGSU and the Wood County Historical Society
presented "German-American Journalistic Humor" on 3 November at 7:00 PM
 at the Wood County Museum. FLYER.

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Select recent scholarly activities of department members :

Ted Rippey is on leave and at work on a book manuscript that carries the working title "The Anxious Ear: Aural Experience and German Modernity." A DAAD grant will support research in Berlin in February and March 2011. He presented papers at the 2010 German Studies Association conference in Oakland and the 2011 Modern Language Association convention in Los Angeles.

Dr. Edgar's Improvisation as Art: Conceptual Challenges, Historical Perspectives, is in press at Continuum Publishers

--Geoff Howes will present "Germany Ascendant" in the Wood County Committee on Aging's Great Decisions Lecture Series, 19 February 2011.

--Dr. Howes will give a paper on “Leo Fischel and the Fate of Liberalism in Robert Musil’s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften” at the annual symposium of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association (MALCA), and discuss translating Peter Rosei's texts at a symposium celebrating the writer's 65th birthday at the International Theater Institute of UNESCO n Vienna (both in April 2011).

BGSU alumni Laura McLary, Nikhil Sathe, and Anita McChesney will presented papers at the annual conference of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association, May 2010, at the University of Vienna. Academic Year Abroad Resident Director Manfred Mittermayer and BGSU German faculty members Christina Guenther and Geoff Howes also presented.

In May, Geoff Howes gave an invited paper on madness in Austrian culture at a conference at the University of London and presented another paper on the novelist Peter Rosei at a conference of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association at the University of Vienna. His contribution to the catalog for a 2009 exhibition in London on "Madness and Modernity" appeared in the German catalog for the 2010 version of the exhibition at the Museum of Vienna.

--Edgar Langraf’s article, “Eine wirklich transzendentale Buffonerie. Improvisation und Improvisationstheater im Kontext der frühromantischen Poetologie,” appeared in Improvisieren. Paradoxien des Unvorhersehbaren. Kunst – Medien -- Praxis, edited by Hans-Friedrich Bormann, Gabriele Brandstetter, and Annemarie Matzke (Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2010), 65–94.

--On 30 April 2010 Edgar Landgraf is presenting on “Systems Theory and Early German Romanticism. Conceptual Challenges, Historical Perspectives” at the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University.

--German faculty member Geoffrey Howes's translation of Peter Rosei's Metropolis Vienna received an honorable mention in the 2010 Best Translated Books Awards. Rosei has been writer in residence at BGSU.

--Fulbright Teaching Assistant Marion Greiner presented "The Use of Games in Foreign Language Teaching" at the 2010 Ohio Foreign Language Association conference in Columbus 8 April.

--Tim Pogacar presented "Rodil(a) se je v Ljubljani… The Biographical Complex in Contemporary Slovene Literary History" at the Midwest Slavic Conference at Ohio State University, 17 April 2010.

--Tim Pogacar edited Slovene Studies 23.2 (2009). Previous issues are available at www.slovenestudies.com.

--In December, German faculty member Edgar Landgraf spoke on “Improvising Man. Heinrich von Kleist and the Modern Predicament” at the Univ. of Michigan.

--German faculty member Geoff Howes has been invited to present “‘In this land where such ailments are rampant’: Madness and Austrian Identities” at the Advanced School of Research, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London in May 2010. He will also present “Stratified Architectonics of Identity in Peter Rosei’s Novel Wien Metropolis” at the annual symposium of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association in Vienna, 22-25 May 2010. Howes's article on madness in Austrian literature appeared in Madness & Modernity. Kunst und Wahn in Wien um 1900, (Vienna: Brandstätter-Verlag, 2009) and in the catalog of the exhibition of the same name at the Wien Museum, January 21 to May 2010.