Fall 2008 Alumni Newsletter

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Vol. 16 • Fall 2008 Alumni Newsletter

Letter from the chair A word from the editor Ave atque vale A pleasurable past and As you read the Faculty Notes, you’ll promising future be struck, as I was, by how many speak of being or beginning to feel “at One might think that being a chair of a they, the staff members, manage to retain home” here. Some are referring to the small but growing department presents an extraordinary humor and esprit de corps Midwest or Hoosierland as a whole. an onerous chore for a scholar who enjoys that even my outbursts of frustration cannot Others mean the vibrant community teaching and treasures the solitude that hu- extinguish. we have here in Bloomington or the manist research demands. One hears distant Now, put all of this and all of us in the department. Those of us who have and not-so-distant rumors of discontent same space, and one might expect inevitable been here for a while (I’ve been part among the faculty members of Germanic combustion. One might think, in other of this community for 43 years now) studies departments around the country and words, that I would consider being chair need to be reminded once in a while other units nearer to home, one understands a burden, a chore, a mere duty. As I begin how strongly we should treasure our that state governments have abdicated their my sixth and last year as chair of Germanic cultural-intellectual community. financial responsibility for funding higher Studies at Indiana University, however, I The Alumni Newsletter not only education, and one appreciates the odds can honestly say that it has been a joyful and serves to remind us of what we share, stacked against traditional programs in light emotionally satisfying experience precisely it forms a sort of micro-community of new needs and new fields of knowledge. because of the remarkable, and remarkably of its own. This is where many of us One also has experienced the interaction casual, harmony that has prevailed, even meet once each year. This past year I of highly intelligent, cleverly ironic, and under acute pressure. I could have wished ran into, among others, Andy Morse, fiercely independent colleagues. Each of our nothing to have been substantially differ- MA’78, who took the Dutch course 14 tenured and tenure-track professors and ent — except, of course, for some of my from me thirty years ago and since all of our five lecturers (including two pro- amateurish mistakes that, thank goodness, then has been living in Atlanta GA gram directors) has a unique intellectual and proved not to have been fatal. Still, despite along with his wife Elaine Hall. pedagogical profile. Each, quite obviously, all we have accomplished over the past Each year I enjoy being asked to has a well-defined personality etched by decade, there is much yet to be done. Let put the newsletter together, and one purpose, ambition, desire, and clear visions me begin with the latest good news before of the greatest rewards is the many of what counts as academic and intellectual I wring my insecure hands and make a plea words of thanks I get for bringing quality. for help. us all into contact with news and Furthermore, our graduate students are Hildegard Keller is now officially a full anecdotes. This year I received two precocious, witty, nervous, ever watch- member of our department, having started kind comments from former gradu- ful for praise and censure, yet also driven spring semester 2008. You will recall that ate students, one of whom said, “I by intellectual curiosity and the hunger to she came to us first as a Max Kade Distin- edited our newsletter last year … become full members of this occupation guished Visiting Professor in 2005. Her spe- and now I know how much work it we call, in our more hopeful moments, the cialty is, shall we say, the loooooong Middle is. Thank you for all the energy you life of the mind. Our undergraduates are Ages, since she teaches everything up to the have put into these newsletters over equally precocious but, perhaps above all, beginning of the 18th century, and many the years!” The other said, “I’ll miss anxious about the future, wondering how things after that. She brings to the depart- your touch (and your drawings) in the best to balance their passion with the neces- ment more than a specialty that we have Alumni Newsletter” (in this issue too, sities of embarking upon a viable, socially needed ever since, first, Sid Johnson and I couldn’t resist letting an amusing and personally rewarding career in what is then Steve Wailes retired; she brings a fever- remark inspire my final cartoon). becoming an ever more unsure future. And ish enthusiasm and exuberance to everything (continued on page 3) our woefully underpaid staff labors under — from her research and her teaching to increased burdens and pressures to make all a casual conversation over a cup of coffee of this cohere for everyone’s benefit. Indeed, (continued on page 2) Polaschegg. A junior professor at the and the department have been altered in From the chair Humboldt University in Berlin, Polaschegg profound ways. (continued from page 1) is a many-faceted scholar with an outgoing As a whole, not many Americans are personality. Directly upon hearing that I was exposed to foreign lands and cultures, and or glass of wine. A remarkable presence, teaching parts of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, the effect of this impoverishment of experi- Keller’s wit and intelligence form fabulous she passed on to me sound clips of The Trac- ence is not, in my opinion, a happy one. The flashes of lightning that brighten the often tatus Suite, composed and sung by the Finn- opportunity to study, work, intern, and just baleful corridors of Ballantine Hall. (Indeed, ish avant-garde musician M.A. Numminen travel for extended periods of time in foreign she has painted her office furniture bright — a quite unexpected surprise to me and lands affords new ways of looking at the colors, to the astonishment of the mainte- the members of the seminar. As with most world and our place in it. Perhaps more than nance crew.) of our visiting professors from Germany, she ever before, our students need a “global Brigitta Wagner is the newest member of was relieved by the small number of students education,” which means not only knowl- the department. A graduate of Dartmouth in our seminars and pleased by the quality edge of languages and cultures attained in and Harvard and sometime resident of Ber- of work done by these students, all of whom the classroom, but also the concrete local lin, she is trained in German studies and as were in their first or second year. Profes- experience of interacting with people who a film studies scholar, and is passionately de- sor Polaschegg delivered a paper on Kafka may not share the same assumptions about voted to German film. Her expertise ranges which provoked a stimulating and detailed life, work, and leisure that we may take for from silent film and early German film discussion afterward. Her lively personality granted. To understand others is neither to theory to the contemporary German cinema energized those members of the depart- convert them nor be converted by them to a scene, with which she connects every year ment who interacted with her academically particular way of life; it is simply to experi- at the Berlinale and which she can observe and socially. I ordered fabulous fall weather ence differences in manners, customs, and every summer in her Kreuzberg neighbor- for our visitor and the gods delivered. They basic predispositions. Overseas studies can hood. With good reason we expect her to have been kind to us all so far this year. provide our students the opportunity for this have an enormous impact on our program, If you have been reading the chair’s letter basic, necessary exposure. not only because of what she knows but also every year over the past half-decade or so, IU supports a host of overseas studies because of who she is as a person, namely you have experienced my unabashed cheer- programs. Nearest and dearest to the De- intelligent, confident in her knowledge and leaderism for this department. (Sometimes partment of Germanic Studies of course are purpose, and filled with that most necessary I have to check my feet just to make sure the summer program in Graz, Austria, and of all ingredients — humor. You, too, will I’m not wearing saddle shoes.) It may seem the year-long program in Freiburg, Ger- get to know and appreciate her as the years excessive, it may seem like normal, run-of- many. Perhaps the most important program, go by. the-mill boosterism. It is, however, not only however, is the IU Honors Program every We welcomed new students into our fold genuine (i.e., how I actually feel about the (continued on page 3) on Max Kade Fellowships, a slightly smaller department), but accurate. My day-to-day class than in the immediate past, which self more resembles a wannabe curmudgeon speaks to our increased selectivity. Carlos than a Mouseketeer, so it means something Gasperi comes to us from Venezuela by way when I say how comfortable working in Germanic Studies of Chapel Hill, N.C., where he received his this department is and how rewarding my BA from the University of North Carolina. stint as chair has been. That I have enjoyed His interests are now forming and expand- This newsletter is published by the Indiana the responsibility, have even marveled how University Alumni Association, in coop- ing, but he already has an impressive grasp smooth and even-keeled the day-to-day eration with the Department of Germanic of some facets of contemporary theoretical and year-to-year operations of the depart- Studies and the College of Arts and Sci- discourse. Olivia Landry, who received ment have been, speaks volumes about its ences Alumni Association, to encourage her MA from McGill University, has already members, their spirit of cooperation and the alumni interest in and support for Indiana impressed us with her skills as a reader of respect they have for one another. We retain University. For activities and membership literary texts, her ambition and eagerness contact with and receive support from our information, call (800) 824-3044 or send to plunge into life here in the department. emeritus professors and each year we renew e-mail to [email protected]. Her provisional interests focus on Austrian friendships with former graduate students at Department of Germanic Studies literature and gender studies, but are surely professional conferences (especially the Ger- Chair...... William Rasch not limited to those areas. Erin Noelliste man Studies Association conference). It is an Editor...... William Z. Shetter comes to us from us, having received her BA extraordinary sensation to feel oneself one of College of Arts & Sciences in Germanic Studies at IU. We recognized a series of ripples in the large pool that is IU Dean...... Bennett I. Bertenthal her extraordinary ability in the study of Germanic Studies. Germanic linguistics, and she recognized Executive Director of Development Alas, it is more difficult to keep in touch & Alumni Programs...... David Ellies our unique and preeminent profile precisely with our undergraduate alumni – those who IU Alumni Association in that area. A better fit could not have been major in German or minor in one of the found. We also awarded Claire van den Germanic languages offered in the depart- President/CEO...... Tom Martz Broek a Max Kade Fellowship. She comes ment, as well as those who may simply enroll Senior Director, IUB Constituent & Affiliate Groups...... Nicki Bland from the University of Oregon and is pursu- in one of our English-language courses. Editor for Constituent ing a PhD in IU’s Comparative Literature When they graduate, they tend to disappear Department. Following in the footsteps of Periodicals...... Sarah J. Preuschl to the four corners of the country if not Class Notes...... Bill Elliott Joe O’Neil, James Rasmussen, and Michael the world, and we seldom hear from them Schlie, she contemplates a dual PhD with again. However, it is safe to say that the Germanic Studies and has already begun lives of those who have participated in any taking courses with us. of the various overseas studies opportunities Our Max Kade Distinguished Visiting sponsored and supported by the university Professor for fall 2008 was Andrea 2 From the chair (continued from page 2) summer that sends high school students to Krefeld, Germany, for six weeks between their junior and senior year. There they live with host families, take courses in language, literature, and culture taught primarily by our graduate students, and travel in organized field trips to Berlin and elsewhere to learn, for instance, about German history and the current German political system. We have noticed over the year that many of these high school students come to IU to further their studies and often return to Germany, either on our summer or year- long program. To us, this confirms that the Krefeld program has been a welcome experience that these students wish to relive. For the past three years the department has offered modest scholarships to a small A group of 2007-08 Freiburg students number of students to help hard-pressed families cope with the cost of sending their our aid to Indiana students wishing to study undergraduate and graduate programs and sons and daughters to Krefeld over the German and learn about German-speak- the other Germanic languages we offer. For summer. We very much wish to increase the ing Europe by contributing to Germanic a treat, visit the faculty and staff page and amount of funds we can contribute and Studies so that we may increase the amount click on the names. There you will notice thereby increase the number of students we donate to the scholarships reserved that, yes, Kari Gade is a Viking and Marc who could benefit from such scholarships. for high school pupils wishing to study in Weiner a Wagnerian motif; but please realize Jacqueline Danner, founder and long-time Krefeld and IU students wishing to study in that Johannes Türk, despite appearances, director of this marvelous IU program Freiburg. is not a character in one of the silent films that serves high school students studying We have made donating easier (yes, I Brigitta Wagner studies. I, like some Flying German, French, and Spanish, will retire in realize how ridiculous this sounds) with Dutchman or Wandering Jew, indeed am December. I wish here to express my appre- our newly improved Web site’s and “give Der ewige Dozent, forever trapped in eternal ciation for Danner’s tireless efforts. Stepha- now” link. But no matter if you contribute lecture mode, contemplatively pontificating nie Goetz, who will take over directorship of this year or not, we invite all of you to visit in the empty air. the program in January, and I have discussed http://www.indiana.edu/~germanic/. This time next year, however, I will no our initiative, and I have again pledged Here you will learn about the courses longer pontificate from these pages. It has money for this coming summer. we teach, our areas of research, or more been my pleasure. — William Rasch Alumni and friends can help us continue generally about the current shape of our

In memoriam: Theodor Schaum Editor’s note Early this year we were informed of the death in a traffic accident of our former (continued from page 1) colleague Theodor (Ted) Schaum. He came to the U.S. in 1954 and did his undergraduate work at Princeton University. In 1964 he earned the PhD at IU under So all good things must come to an Henry Remak, and taught in the department from 1962 to 1969. Upon leaving IU, end. After six years I am bowing out Schaum taught German and Norwegian at Moorhead State University in Minnesota before I get too stale or dig myself until 1994. On his retirement he remained in Minnesota. into too much of a rut. It is time for You might recall that in the 2005 Alumni Newsletter we quoted a couple of someone with fresh ideas and a differ- sentences from him: “At age 70 I enjoy relatively good health, live and work merrily ent style to take over. Next year you by day (and occasionally into the night). You see, as a retired person you think you can look forward to a different editor have to catch up with all those things you were forced to postpone during your to accompany the new chair. professional career.” There are still a few of us here who will remember him as an But don’t let that keep you from unfailingly soft-spoken and congenial colleague. sending in any news about yourself or alumni you’ve had contact with or heard about. Even though we don’t know yet who will be editing the newsletter next year, we’ll make sure it IU Alumni Career Services gets into the right hands. Explore our full range of online services including career assessments, resume With best wishes to all. and interview preparation, research resources, and job search strategies. — William Z. Shetter [email protected] alumni.indiana.edu/career

3 Faculty Notes

On Labor Day Ted Andersson finished a ship, trying to write my book on Narrative planning on bringing in Mandarin Chinese two-year term as interim chair of the Ger- Performance while enjoying Berlin’s diverse at the cost of the German instruction. Bill man Department at Stanford and retired cultural offerings (and eternally resenting Rasch and I each wrote letters of support once and for all. He again spent the month the Northern climate). Somehow, this desk and, along with PhD student Andrew Mills, of May at the Centre for Mediaeval Studies existence has not been quite as undisturbed we attended and voiced our solidarity at the in Bergen and participated in a small confer- as it could have been (the age of e-mail in Columbus school board meeting. It was ence on the dating of the sagas, as well as general, doctoral students in Berlin, the gratifying to witness the overwhelming com- sitting in on a larger conference on hagiog- anthology based on the Narrative Identifica- munity support for the German programs raphy. In September he returned to Bergen tion conference which Fritz Breithaupt and at that meeting and to hear later that the for a week’s session for critiquing chapters I are co-editing, a graduate conference we programs were saved. of dissertation projects from the length and held at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut In August I trained three new Advance breadth of Europe as well as a couple of in Vienna, new conference plans for next College Project German high school instruc- projects from the U.S. You can learn a lot in year, etc.), but partially that’s also a good tors in our third- and fourth-year curricula. a short time! It stands to be revealed what a thing since I miss everybody—and actually We now have a total of five highly moti- longer retirement will hold. look forward to returning to my new home vated and experienced teachers offering IU From Frank Banta we hear “The main and teaching in the spring!” concurrent enrollment credits to their most thing I’ve done this past year is to continue Fritz Breithaupt is still playing catch-up advanced students. Many of these top-notch working as a student advocate and translat- to his growing family (Noah is already two). students will be attending an upper level ing some more Swiss letters from the mid- His goal was one book per child. Finally, in German class near you soon. 19th century. The most exciting thing was a February 2009, this goal will be reached. For four years I have been involved in 90th birthday party (see photo below) and a In October, his Der Ich-Effekt des Geldes. and have represented Germanic Studies with trip to Germany as guest of wonderful fam- Zur Geschichte einer Legitimationsgeschichte a high school outreach program created ily and friends. I’m planning to be 90 again came out with Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. by the assistant director of Center for the next summer.” In February, his Kulturen der Empathie will Study of Global Change. This orientation come out with Suhrkamp (stw). The next program brings hundreds of students to the problem is that by his logic, he would have annual Lotus World Music and Arts Festival to produce another (biological) offspring here in Bloomington, and has been officially in order to publish more. Nay — no way. recognized by the festival’s committee this Luckily, there are only three kids, though year. For the 2007 festival, the department visitors to their house seem to remember sponsored the extremely well received music that there were six. Hopefully, now will group from Berlin, 17 Hippies. Sadly, and come some time for relaxing, reading, and to the dismay of many of the returning high reasoning. He is looking forward to simply school students this year, the 17 Hippies enjoying the many wonderful texts by had to cancel many of their appearances. friends, students, and colleagues. But take heart, Hippie fans: I have been in contact with their manager, and he has Frank Banta (left) and Hugh Powell assured me that they will be back for next (second from right) with a group of well- year’s Lotus Festival! wishers on Banta’s 90th birthday. I also hosted three separate high school German programs here in Bloomington for campus visits last spring. Several of our Peter Boerner says “I spent much of my talented associate instructors invited the time preparing papers on the story of Faust, students into their classrooms for a firsthand on Caroline von Wolzogen, and on Goethe’s university experience. Students also heard relations with his friend Carl Friedrich from the Kelley School of Business about Zelter, and delivering the papers in Ham- the importance of language instruction and burg, in Rudolstadt (where von Wolzogen from the Overseas Studies Program about grew up), and in Strasbourg. Together with the many opportunities to study in a Ger- my wife Nancy I sailed on a section of the Troy Byler is eloquent on some of the man-speaking country. Additionally they nostalgic last trip of the Queen Elizabeth pedagogical activities in the IU Germanic enjoyed German/English tours of both the 2 through the South Pacific. We made the Studies Department. “As the outreach coor- Lilly Library and the IU Art Museum led by acquaintance of those tall, mysterious statues dinator for our department, let me highlight Helga Keller. on Easter Island, visited Gaugin’s Tahiti, and some activities that we have been involved It has been a joy to work with my col- conferred in Sidney with Gero von with this past academic year. leagues in such a strong, reputable depart- Wilpert, probably the only other non- Last fall the department was called into ment. It is impressive what can be accom- Estonian Germanist who was born, as I was, action. Two local high school teachers of plished when working with a great team.” in Tartu, Estonia.” German contacted us for support to help Susanne Even reports, “The academic Claudia Breger: “I have been in Berlin them save their successful, long-standing year 2007–08 was extremely work-intensive throughout 2008, on a Humboldt Fellow- German programs. The school board was (continued on page 5) 4 I felt myself observed. I turned around, for me because I had some health issues this Faculty notes looked out of my living room, and saw a spring. Now I look forward to picking a (continued from page 4) big black bird sitting in one of the bushes, really good Dutch apple in a couple of years looking in. I thought it was a big crow until (if the deer let them grow). I also look for- but also very rewarding for me. I taught the I saw the telltale beak, and realized that ward to teaching the students in the Dutch second year of German with the new course Óðinn had sent down one of his ravens to program how to bake traditional Dutch- book Anders gedacht. Troy Byler and I see how I was handling the mead of poetry. apple pancakes and apple pies! composed the entire syllabus from scratch, Huginn’s report was clearly not favorable, Next year we will organize another Summer complete with tests, exams, and portfolio because this visit (the first of many) presaged Dutch Institute, so if you know people in- assignments. After a little bit of a rocky start a series of unprecedented events. First there terested in learning Dutch: please encourage — teachers and students alike had to get was the earthquake, then the flooding, then them to study Dutch language and culture used to the approach of the new book — we my house was hit by lightning (frying the (www.iub.edu/~sdi). are quite pleased with the results. After air conditioner), then I went to a confer- Albrecht Holschuh: “Neither publica- having revamped the first- and second-year ence in Australia and got stranded in Dallas tions nor courses. Much of my time goes to courses, a new placement test is underway in the grounding of the AA fleet, and had the League of Women Voters, where I serve (again with invaluable and tireless help and to fly into Evansville (Ind.) and rent a car as an officer at the state and local levels. The support from Troy) to reflect more accurate- to get back (to Bloomington). Then came year brought short trips to Germany and ly the demands students face at the different the hurricane, and now the banks are going Jamaica and a long road trip west, with fam- levels of the language program. belly-up. The good thing is that Huginn ily visits and hikes in six national parks and This fall 2008 semester is off to a great seems to have abandoned his dwelling (a Fourth of July fireworks at Donner Pass (our start. I’m teaching a highly motivated tree in my neighbor’s yard), and, since I party had plenty of food). Now reading Don fifth-semester German group. The G500 am now putting the finishing touches on Quixote in the Grossman translation, with methodology seminar is as much fun as ever, the two-volume skaldic edition, I hope that lessons for today’s politics.” and I am delighted to be working with such Óðinn has been mollified. But this semester Hildegard Keller treats us to a lengthy a marvelous bunch of AIs! I am choosing the texts for my Old Norse and colorful narrative: “Shortly after the I discovered the image function of the course with extreme care!” presentation of my audio book about Henry Google search engine, fell in love with it, Tracy Alan Hall: “Now that this tenure Suso (the book, Die Stunde des Hundes, and now find myself almost unable to put business is over and done with I am happy Zürich 2008, co-authored with Jeffrey F. together handouts without pictures. Cater- to report that I now have my first sabbatical. Hamburger, the CDs co-produced with ac- ing to visual learners is only one part of my I have been quite productive in terms of re- tors and singers) in the Insel Hotel in Con- ongoing quest in devising new teaching search the past few months and I will hope- stance, I came to Bloomington in the mid- materials over and above any coursebook. fully be able to continue this trend through- dle of an academic year and in the middle of In an age that is predominantly visual (due out the remaining two months of the winter. The fire-red cardinals flew through to the preponderance of the Internet), it is semester, which I will spend at the Zentrum the snow as I watched, fascinated, from the important to integrate visual impulses even für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft in my old veranda of Claudia Breger’s house, where more in our day-to-day language teaching. home (Berlin). I am presently counting the I found a pleasant place to stay until Spring. The need for a balanced curriculum that hours until I leave. In the meantime I am Bloomington was cold and barren compared helps students discover and utilize different enjoying multitudes of assorted vegetables with the blossoming, warm town that I had learner strategies and learning styles is as from my garden.” come to learn in the summer of 2005, but urgent as ever. Esther Ham has a lot to say about the the reception I was given by my new col- The pursuit of language teaching as an Dutch wing of the department. “Another leagues and the graduate students in my two art form led me to intense involvement fall, another year in Indiana. When those seminars was wonderfully welcoming and with the Goethe Institute Trainer Network leaves are changing color, it is almost warm. It was a fantastic reentry here – and I (Lehrer bilden Lehrer aus). The most recent inevitable for me to look back on my years thank you all! trainer seminar with the topic ‘Autonomes at IU. Since 2001, the numbers have been After various trips to conferences in Feb- Lernen und Lernstrategien’ took place only growing and growing: not only in the ruary (including a symposium at Princeton two weeks ago here at IU. In April I ran a culture classes, but especially in the language University on mysticism before and after the workshop ‘Über Bilder ins Gespräch kom- classes. This fall we set a new record: two Reformation) and in March (at the Deutsches men,’ together with Elizabeth Bridges at first-year groups with more than 20 students Historisches Museum zu Berlin, where I the German Culture Center, University of each. However, more students are always spoke about performative projects involving Missouri in St. Louis. I was also invited to welcome! It looks like Dutch will be around the historical development of language and give a presentation and workshop on drama for a long time. coincidentally and to my great delight met pedagogy at Acadia University, Wolfville, In the last three years, we had a couple of Brigitta Wagner and, as planned, Claudia Nova Scotia, Canada. In May, I participated Dutch students who were willing to come Breger), things began to get warmer in in the Freshmen Learning Project here at IU all the way to Indiana to learn what it takes Bloomington. My search for a house also which got me thinking deeper about ways to teach Dutch to a group of American stu- began to bear fruit (see below). of making foreign language reading more dents. The task was actually quite challeng- Spring came sooner to Zürich, how- enjoyable, rewarding, and empowering for ing for those interns (and maybe also for the ever, and saw the successful conclusion our students American students, as we have a reputation of a long-standing research project. Since In her inimitable style, Kari Gade writes, of being extremely direct), but hopefully we 2002 I had been occupied with Jakob Ruf, “This year was the year of the raven. Early will have more in the future. Especially as who, although born in Constance, be- this spring I was sitting at home at my our numbers continue to grow. came the town surgeon and playwright of desk editing and translating a 10th-century On a more personal note: in our garden/ Zürich. From 2004 until 2007 I directed skaldic stanza filled with blood, gore, and yard, we planted a couple of nice, old-fash- an interdisciplinary team of researchers at birds of battle feasting on carrion, when ioned Dutch apple trees — very symbolic (continued on page 6)

5 My colleague, Jeffrey Veidlinger (History), keep collecting materials towards my former Faculty notes who co-organizes with me the Indiana dissertation/future book on Ibsen that may (continued from page 5) University Yiddish Ethnographic project, is materialize some day. I also only recently en- already hard at work writing a book on some joyed my first parent-teacher conference and the University of Zürich with nine members of the major historiographical aspects of am looking forward to many more ahead. representing various fields. We all eagerly our collected Yiddish interviews in Ukraine, From Hugh Powell we received a note awaited the first edition of Ruf’s complete Moldova, Romania, Hungary, and Slovakia, that said “Some months ago, when reflect- works on which we had been working — I and the close-to-700 hours of interviews and ing on the past years of my life, it occurred had sent the last proofs from Bloomington footage that we collected in the years 2002– to me that the year 2008 has brought to the publisher in Zürich! Our ‘quintu- 2008 will form our planned IU AHEYM anniversaries of some notable milestones in plets’ weighed almost ten kilos and appeared project (AHEYM meaning ‘homeward’ is my academic career.” This year is the 75th under the title: Jakob Ruf. Leben, Werk the acronym of: Archives of Historical and anniversary of Powell’s receiving his BA, und Studien, published by Verlag der NZZ Ethnographic Yiddish Memories). and thus the 70th for his PhD, the 45th Zürich. In July 2008 the long overdue new vol- anniversary for his D.Litt and a British Acad- We spent the summer recovering on ume of Yerusholaymer Almanakh: periodical emy Award, “plus 25 years of mandatory three different lakes: on the Bodensee (aka collections for Yiddish literature and culture, retirement.” the Lake of Constance, the home of Henry appeared in Jerusalem. Its 430 pages contain William Rasch writes “2008 has been Suso, Jakob Ruf, and also the lake of my — among other materials and publications another enjoyable year. My wife and I trav- childhood, on the Zürichsee and also on the — new works of fiction, drama, poetry, eled to London over spring break, where Vierwaldstättersee (a.k.a. Lake of Lucerne, translations, studies and articles by 34 con- I participated in a number of panels and on the summit of the Pilatus I saw for the temporary authors. workshops at the University of Westminster first time a wild ibex). In the meantime, a rather personal ac- and visited with many friends. I will be back Since the end of August, I belong to the count of my poetic alter ego, Boris Karloff, in London in November for a conference club of those enthusiasts who start a new appeared in the collection The Writer Up- on world order. In July I participated in a home, clean the yard with power-washers, rooted: Contemporary Jewish Exile Literature, conference on philistinism in Berlin, where chase relentlessly insects in their basement, edited by Alvin Rosenfeld and published by I had a good time (and enjoyed marvelous evaluate all the models of blade-mowers for IU Press last May. Two of Boris Karloff’s weather) with Dirk Baecker among others, their two small patches of lawn and stain self-translated poems appeared both on and briefly drank a cheery glass of wine on their deck in unusual colors. That inspired paper and online in the April issue of Zeek: A a dazzlingly bright Saturday afternoon with my neighbor, who peeked over the fence, to Journal of Jewish Thought and Culture (see: Claudia Breger (in Berlin on a Humboldt the guess: ‘Looks like watermelon.’ ‘Hmm. http://www.zeek.net/804karloff), and a fellowship) and, later, enjoyed dinner with It’s called Indian Corn.’ ‘Oh, I knew it was new, rather slim collection of poems, titled Todd Cesaratto (on the Berlin student something to eat.’ Yummy. I like it as much Katoves on a zayt: nekhtike lider (English exchange). Directly thereafter I traveled to as the volunteer tomatoes and corn in my title: I kid you not: poems of yesteryears) ap- Medellín, Columbia, for a law and politics small garden. peared in Jerusalem in August 2007. The conference and was charmed by the city and The first fruit of my scholarly orchard previous one, ELABREK: lider fun nayem my hosts. I am particularly pleased with my at Bloomington are articles on martyrdom yortoyznt (ELABREK: poems of the new mil- article on Kant and perpetual peace that (published in DU, October 2008), on risk lennium, Jerusalem, 2006), was awarded was published in the British journal Law management in the Middle Ages (to be pub- the 2008 Dr. Hirsch and Dora Rosenfeld and Critique, and am also happy with an lished in a volume of the SfB Kulturen des Prize for Yiddish Literature by the Montreal article on Carl Schmitt for a special issue Performativen, Berlin) and on performative Jewish Public Library’s J.I. Segal Awards of New Centennial Review on the Cul- approaches to Medieval German literature committee.” ture of Occupation (co-edited by a former (to be published in the catalogue of the From Gergana May we hear, “Arriv- undergraduate student in the department, exhibit ‘die Sprache deutsch’ at the Deutsches ing back from Europe this fall, I realized Jennifer Fay, who is now director of Film Historisches Museum zu Berlin, 2009). I Bloomington finally felt like home. I am Studies at Michigan State). Late this fall, a appreciate the soil and the climate at our starting my third year as the director of the special issue of Soziale Systeme that I edited department very much — a great, blooming Norwegian program, and I feel thoroughly on Luhmann and law will appear, as will a community. settled at my new job, house, and town. volume (published by Palgrave) on postwar Dov-Ber Boris Kerler: “The period The comfort makes me more productive German film, co-edited with former student since I talked to you last was quite busy. and creative! The number of students for Wilfried Wilms. Last fall I had perhaps There was a spate of talks, presentations all language, literature and culture classes is my most memorable teaching experience, and papers at various conferences, symposia rising. The community of Nordic-language- an undergraduate course (in English) on and venues in Berkeley and Chicago (May speakers who enjoy hanging out together Nietzsche, Weber, and Freud, with an excep- 2007), Vienna, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem is rapidly increasing. The prospects for tional group of very bright, articulate, and (July-August 2007), and Vilnius and Stock- the future are pretty good too, consider- concerned students. In the spring I conduct- holm (August 2008). Three more Yiddish ing the fact that IU is hosting the National ed a seminar on the philosophical discourse ethnographic expeditions were carried out Institute for Summer Scandinavian Studies of modernity (from Nietzsche and Weber in Ukraine (May 2007 and 2008), Budapest in 2009. The institute will offer intensive to Habermas and Luhmann, with many (June 2007), and northeastern Hungary Norwegian and Swedish language instruc- stops in between), which I also felt to be a and Romania (parts of Transylvania, in July tion, two additional culture classes, and a great success. This semester Ed Comentale 2008). Throughout August 2008 I also plethora of extra-curricular activities ranging (English) and I are co-teaching a seminar got a chance to teach two advanced Yid- from museum visits, lecture series, theatre on Anglo-German modernism, which gives dish language and literature courses in the performances and a trip to IKEA-Cincinnati me a chance to indulge my taste for some intensive summer program at the Yiddish to nail the interior design vocabulary (and of my favorite Anglophone authors, Ezra Institute of Vilnius University (Lithuania). the Swedish cranberry jam). In addition, I (continued on page 7)

6 pretation of German Locative Morphosyntax but not least, my book seems to get nearer Faculty notes by English Native Speakers. They are hoping to its completion. All these are reasons for (continued from page 6) to collaborate on the basis of Richard’s study gratitude and a moderate local optimism – to produce a refereed journal article. to use a phrase Kant might like – in spite of Pound and Wyndham Lewis. It’s a large In 2008, he published a paper together the hard times all of us are facing. And on class, about half from English, with the rest with Professor Kevin Rottet of the IU the way Estela and I married and celebrated from German and Comparative Literature, French and Italian Department. The paper, in Portugal. But that is another story.” and we’re having a blast (indeed, a Blast, ‘Tag questions in Welsh’ appeared in the Brigitta Wagner: “Bloomington marks if I may pun on Lewis’s vorticist journal of journal Diachronica. His interest in the the third in a trilogy of significant ‘B’-towns 1914). Lately I have been daydreaming of topic of the preterite vs. present perfect in my life, and I would like to believe that the time I will have after I step down from tense has been significantly spurred on by the letter ‘B’ is symbolic of continuities being department chair. I hope I figure out Christopher Sapp, PhD’06, who is now an rather than ruptures. My transition from how to fill it.” assistant professor of German at the Uni- Berlin and Boston to rural Indiana is hardly Benjamin Robinson: “I’m teaching a versity of Mississippi. He is looking at this complete, but I have already managed to grad seminar now with a wonderful group phenomenon in the history of German with find a few correspondences between lives of students in which we’re trying to figure our Tracy Alan Hall and at the analogous here and there: the biweekly sale of fresh out how the past century is made vivid to development in the history of Welsh with produce evokes the ritual of my visits to us… meanwhile, here I am, confronted with Kevin Rottet. Perhaps another Diachronica Berlin’s Maybachufer market; the multiplex- the task of making my last year present. article lies in the future. es East and West recall the guilty pleasures Well, I won’t try to one-up the chroniclers. For the past couple of years, he has of first-run original versions at the Sony My biggest news on the academic front been working on fleshing out a model of Center Cinestar or Saturday outings to the is that my book Other Systems: Alternate adult second language acquisition. He is Boston Common Loew’s; The Cinemat Germany, Socialist Modernity will be com- also very keen on crafting this model to be is a haven for the lesser known cinephilic ing out with Stanford UP in 2009. I’m sufficiently general that multiple additional delights of Berlin’s Arsenal or the Harvard working on a new book entitled Out of All languages receive an empirically adequate Film Archive. So, it would seem, my two Scale: The New, the Other, the Individual and and theoretically natural account. This has sources of continuity are food and cinema! the Index that is about artistic attempts to led to a new research topic for him: second But what I am most curious to discover demonstrate incompatibilities of scale in the language phonology as encoded in the sec- are those qualities of small-town life that face of continuity’s temptations. I’ve written ond language lexicon. He has been organiz- make Bloomington unique. I am already an article on Alain Badiou that will appear ing a faculty-graduate student collaborative beginning to detect the channels by which in a volume of on contemporary critical research group working on this topic since the university’s cultural opportunities and theorists. My article comes in the wake of January 2008. intellectual climate have both created and Badiou’s exciting four-day visit to campus Johannes Türk writes “When he heard attracted a community unlike any other last fall, in which the main public lecture on about my plans to join Indiana University’s I’ve encountered in the Midwest. The ‘Reviving the Communist Hypothesis’ drew Department of Germanic Studies more streets and shops are alive with the politics several hundred people. It was a galvanizing than two years ago, a senior professor at of the 2008 presidential election. Neigh- visit thanks to the active participation of so Yale, where I was visiting, asked me with bors communicate, musicians stage private many of our grad students and faculty and an ironic undertone “So, you are becom- house concerts, and volunteers urge passers- Badiou’s Parisian charms. As I write this, ing a – how do they call it – a Hoosier?” I by to vote in the upcoming election. Time certain leading indicators of our economy still have not made up my mind on how to functions differently here. That is to say, are tanking, but I’m bullish on indices in interpret his sentence and its tone. By all there is time to work, to think, and to rec- general. I participated with Johannes on a accounts, becoming a Hoosier still seems to reate when global patterns of information panel on Indexicality at the last GSA in San be a difficult task.Yet even without becom- exchange resume a local pace. Diego and gave an invited talk at Purdue ing one, I have gone through the first two In my first fall at IU, I taught a seminar on ‘Leading Indicators.’ I was on leave with years and have found a place that could on ‘German Cinema after the Wall’ and a my family in beautiful Oregon last fall, but hardly be more welcoming and favorable second eight weeks’ course on ‘The City of in the spring I taught an undergrad class on to my life and my work. During the last Moving Images.’ While continuing work film analysis—which with my kids keeping year, I have become a regular member of on my larger project, Berlin, Revivified City, me busy at home is my only chance these the Theory Reading Group and a member a study of cinema and urban nostalgia in the days to see movies—and a grad class on of the steering committee of the Center post-wall era, I attended the German Film paradoxes of change.” for Eighteenth-Century Studies that offer Institute in Ann Arbor, the Telluride Film For Rex Sprouse, the last year has inspiration and exciting forms of collabora- Festival, and the Giornate del Cinema Muto included both familiar and new territory. tion. In a special issue of DVjS, edited by and presented a paper at the GSA. It is my He continued to teach courses both in the Claudia Breger and Fritz Breithaupt, I hope, in working with town and universi- Germanic Studies Department and in the had the opportunity to explore a range of ty resources as well as great colleagues, to (still relatively) new Department of Second texts – among them Kleist’s Die Verlobung improve the profile of German cinema (and Language Studies. This past summer he in St. Domingo – to examine the poetics of international cinema generally) on campus directed IU’s summer program in Graz for pity and its ethical implications. And last and in the region. the seventh consecutive summer, and also continued his service as Director of Under- graduate Study for the Germanic Studies Department. IU Germanic Studies online! Under his direction, Richard Scuderi, Visit us on the Web at www.indiana.edu/~germanic BA’08, completed a senior honors thesis entitled The Acquisition and Semantic Inter-

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Graduate notes passes broad areas of Medieval culture and University of Wisconsin. Our catchy title Medieval German literature as well as the was ‘Charles James und seine wunderbare In a recent letter, Nancy Chadburn, reception of the Middle Ages in the modern Musiktruhe.’ Our group wined, dined, and MA’74, PhD’81, says “… I don’t have period. He is the author and editor of seven rocked all weekend. I also organized for the nearly enough time to read all the English, books and a few dozen articles. He has fifth year an AATG Summer Seminar on the Dutch and German books I’d like to, but lectured extensively both here and abroad campus, the only TPRS workshop organized it’s fun to have so many potential sources of on medieval and modern topics and was a specifically for German teachers. One of the diversion and edification… I’ve been feeling recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt staff members was another IU alum, Hank homesick for Utrecht – last trip there was Fellowship (1978–79, 1984) for research in Schwab, MAT’83, and another was an Indi- two years ago – so turned to Google Images Munich and Freiburg. In 2007 the Col- ana German teacher, Julie Baird. Last Spring for a virtual visit and found a ‘slide show’ lege of the Liberal Arts honored Professor I was privileged to be one of the organizers of over 290 photos taken by two young Gentry with its Distinguished Emeritus for the program celebrating the 400th anni- women…” Award. The award by German President versary of German Immigration to America Peter “Petrus” Freeouf, MA’82, Horst Köhler is to be presented to Professor held in Williamsburg, VA. I was in charge of PhD’90: “I’m still teaching at Chiang Mai Gentry by the Consul General at a public the Saturday morning workshop for German University in northern Thailand. This is my ceremony and reception in November.” teachers entitled ‘Teaching about German- last semester as a full-time contract teacher. “That I am honored and very happy goes Americans and Germans in America.’ I met Next semester I’m going part-time and will without saying,” Gentry adds. “Unfor- several IU people there, including Eber- teach only linguistics courses in the English tunately, I have been informed that even hard Reichmann. Otherwise my wife and Dept (semantics, language classification) and though I will officially be a ‘knight’ Ritter( ), I use our free time to visit our daughter in supervise a few senior research projects in I will not have the privilege of droit du sei- Richmond and our son, his wife, and our linguistics. gneur or ius primae noctis—probably just as three grandchildren in Bel Air, Md. Retire- My wife Nitida is still teaching in the well. In any event and in all seriousness, I am ment is still a few years away. Faculty of Education and my daughter letting you know this because without IU, Marianne Kalinke, PhD’70, writes, Saranta, who was born in Bloomington nothing I have achieved would have been “I retired officially from the University of shortly before we moved here, has one possible. I am also continuing my editor- Illinois in May 2006, but I seem to be as more year of high school. In linguistics I’m ship of the Classical Traditions volumes for busy as ever. This is of my own choosing, working on Papuan languages (typologi- Brill (Rezeptions- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte however, and I have been able to throw my- cal matters) and North American Native volumes of the German Neue Pauly; three self wholeheartedly into my research again. I Languages (typological matters also). I’m volumes are done and I am working on have also had occasion to travel to Norway. particularly interested in verb morphology the fourth. I am also the General Editor of For several years now, together with two and morphosyntax in both groups. A new the Brill series Medieval and Renaissance historians, Patrick Geary (UCLA) and Hans- comprehensive Lakota dictionary with an Authors and Texts. I keep busy.” Werner Goetz (Hamburg), I have been a 84-page grammatical description has just Derek H. Hillard, MA’96, PhD’01, is an member of the Scientific Advisory Com- come out this year, published in Blooming- assistant professor of German at Kansas State mittee of the Nordic Centre for Medieval ton by the Lakota Language Consortium. University, where he has worked since 2002. Studies at the University of Bergen. This I received a copy yesterday from amazon. In December 2007 he received the German committee work has brought me repeatedly com, which is fast and reliable and a really Academic Exchange Service Article Prize to that university and has left me green with valuable resource here. As you know, the from the German Studies Association, an envy at the financial support the Nordic internet has more and more really high qual- award that honors the best article published governments provide for medieval studies. ity academic linguistics for viewing and for in the German Studies Review. Hillard’s Despite my retirement, I am still the manag- downloading—also something which is very article was titled, “Rilke and Historical Dis- ing editor for German-Scandinavian of the useful here.” course or the ‘Histories’ of ‘Malte Laurids Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Frank Gentry, MA’66, PhD’73, sends Brigge.’” He lives and works in Manhattan, which became a medieval journal several us a copy of a news release from Penn State Kan. years ago. This is because my department announcing his recognition with Germany’s Ron Horwege, MA’68, PhD ’71, “I am has chosen not to hire a medievalist despite prestigious civilian award, the Bundesverdi- still teaching at Sweet Briar (Va.) College, having been given a line by the provost to enstkreuz (Knight of the Cross of the Order although in the past two years I suddenly replace Stephen Jaeger, Claudia Bornholdt, of Merit) “for his significant contributions lurched forward in the academic line as PhD’01, and me. … Phililogists in Germanic to the academic cooperation between Ger- colleagues have retired. I am now the senior Studies at Illinois and Indiana (PIGSTII) many and the United States. In particular, member of our small faculty and have the continues to flourish, and the Illinois con- the award honors Professor Gentry’s work dubious honor of walking at the front of the tingent expects to travel to Bloomington in on behalf of the Alexander von Humboldt line during our three academic processions. spring 2009 for our next meeting.” Association of America and his active role I continue to work with colleagues from William Keel, MA’75, PhD’77, has in fostering exchange programs between across the country. For the14th year I have two new grandsons this year in Ohio and American and German universities.” organized and hosted an annual immersion Oklahoma and is now at six grandchildren The release goes on: “Gentry came to weekend at (Sweet Briar) College, and our — two each in those states plus another two Penn State from the University of Wis- theme this last year was ‘Musik im Unter- in Wisconsin. Keel’s fourth child works for consin-Madison in 1991 as head of the richt.’ We were privileged to have as our Teach For America in Chicago. He writes, Department of German, a position he held presenter one of my colleagues from IU (continued on page 9) until 1997. His research agenda encom- days, Charles James, MA’68, from the 8 who had hosted our wedding reception Graduate news in their house 39 years ago. With so little (continued from page 8) time we managed to miss out on seeing Bill and Janette Shetter, but Bill’s classic “much remains the same—still chairing Dutch grammar remains a part of my life, the department; chairing the Sister Cities as I’m now using it to help an American Advisory Board in Lawrence, Kan.; being neighbor through the rigors of language president of the Society for German-Ameri- learning. can Studies etc.” Translating challenges keep coming, Astrid Klocke, MA’91, PhD’00, works presently in the form of poetry and prose at Northern Arizona University, now with for an anthology of Dutch and Flemish tenure, and is busy with a new translation women writers, 1200-1850. The last large project: Nietzsche’s Will to Power in a new project was Willem Frijhoff’s Fulfilling Pictured are three Germanic Studies graduating edition, derived from his notebooks. She God’s Mission: The Two Worlds of Dominie seniors of May 2008. Michael Graff, Erin writes, “I’m working with two colleagues Everardus Bogardus, 1607-1647. In Sep- Noelliste (Max Kade fellow 2008–09) and in the Humanities Department who are in tember of this year Frijhoff was awarded Gretchen Sneegas. charge of the editing and the philosophical a prize for this biography by the New introduction. I’m also preparing the first Netherland Institute of Albany. Teach- Wilfried Wilms, MA’96, PhD’00, is “happy English translation of Edgar Hilsenrath’s ing English conversation to Japanese and to report that I just received tenure at the novel Bronskys Geständnis. One chapter was Korean people — and there are many here University of Denver. Even though I am published this fall in Metamorphoses. in Amstelveen — continues to be enjoyable. more than happy to live in Colorado, with all The textbook is finally out and I gave the For the rest, there’s gardening (my counter- its perks, I must admit that I will apparently publisher a long list of IU contacts so that part to Bernhard’s pottery hobby), cycling, forever miss the Lernschweiss of Ballantine Hall they can send you an exam copy. Please let and walking. No boredom in sight.” and the library’s 11th floor. While little Wilms me know if you haven’t received one yet: John D. Sundquist, MA’96, PhD’02, #1 (Tibault) is already five years old, little Deutsche Literatur im Kontext 1750-2000 was promoted to associate professor of Ger- Wilms #2 is on his/her way and will join us in (with W. Maierhofer, Focus Publishing, man at Purdue University in April 2007. March. Hooray!” 2009). It is task-based and designed for an He works in West Lafayette, Ind. intermediate/advanced-level ‘Introduction Ray Wakefield, MA’67, PhD’72, is an- to German Literature’ course. And if you Undergraduate notes other alumnus with his own way of putting have any suggestions for the second edition, things: “If there’s a statute of limitations on Dan R. Anderson, BA’71, MAT’73, teaches please send them to me. the number of years absent from Bloom- German at University High School in Tucson, After four years as associate chair of mod- ington, then those of us from the dinosaur Ariz. “UHS was just ranked the 13th best ern languages, I’m back to full-time teach- era have clearly exceeded the limit. Let’s high school in the United States by U.S. News ing this year and enjoying my new freshman just consider this an update for you and a & World Report,” he writes. “We are the only film class. It’s part of the film studies minor few other faculty who were also there when public college preparatory high school in we’re developing, a program that is draw- dinosaurs roamed the stone quarries. Arizona. I have been here eight years and have ing lots of student interest. No wonder: As For reasons that escape logic, I have been a growing German program including [Ad- an example of what many Germans really called on by the (University of Minnesota) vanced Placement classes] and a very active watched from the 1950s to 70s, we screened dean in the past few years to serve as an GAPP exchange. I would love to hear from Sissi this week, my worst childhood memory interim chair or director. Three years ago, the ‘Hamburg ’69 gang.’” Anderson lives in of Sunday afternoons at the grandparents’... it was for my own department (German, Tucson and can be contacted at dra1547@ The students loved it! Scandinavian, and Dutch); two years ago, mac.com. Not much else to report since I hardly I served Asian Languages and Literatures; Susan McFadden Chyn, BA’74, MA’78, have time left for anything outside of work and last year continuing on into this fall is president of Princeton Language Group. or training these days. After a long winter semester, I’ve been interim director of the She writes that she is interested in interna- and spring of endless circles around my Institute for Linguistics, ESL, and Slavic tional activities, including language programs neighborhood I’ve finally worked up some Languages and Literatures. My task in this and cultural exchanges. She lives and works in kind of basic running fitness and com- last position has been especially interesting Princeton, N.J. pleted a series of trail races, including a half and challenging: close down the institute Orville “Tom” Crane IV, MA’00, is a marathon, this summer. I’m also still racing and find new homes for the faculty. Last lead labor and employee relations specialist triathlons and doing much better there since year, I worked out agreements for the with the Department of the Navy in Washing- running is only part of it. Ironman Arizona ESL and Slavic faculty. This fall, I have the ton, D.C. He and his wife live in Arlington, 2010 is the big (mid-life crisis) goal.” unique opportunity to reestablish Minneso- Va. Their son, Riley Thomas, was born in Myra Heerspink Scholz, MA’69, ta’s Department of Linguistics after a hiatus September 2007. PhD’93, writes from her home near Amster- of 16 years. Negotiations are still underway, Amy L. Hoffman, BS/BA’06, is a student dam. “Bernhard’s retirement and my status but we have reasons to be optimistic — a in the IU School of Medicine in Indianapolis. as freelancer made it possible for us to have Department of Linguistics on July 1, 2009. While attending IU Bloomington, she earned a three-plus week extravaganza in the U.S. In spite of the administrative challenges, I bachelors of science degrees in chemis- this fall. The first two and a half weeks we continue to teach my fair share and enjoy try, mathematics, and biology, as well as a spent on beautiful Lake Michigan, renew- my teaching more than ever. The UM bachelor of arts degree in Germanic studies. ing contacts with relatives, playing on the College of Liberal Arts has given me the Hoffman lives in Carmel, Ind. beach with granddaughter Cleo, etc. Then Motley Exemplary Teaching Award for James P. Perin, BA’68, MBA/JD’75, is three nostalgic days in Bloomington, walk- 2007–08, and the grandkids may come senior vice president and chief financial officer ing the campus and seeing a few old friends in December to watch me shuffle to the of the IU Foundation in Bloomington, Ind. — among them Ingrid and Henry Remak, podium to receive this high honor.” (continued on page 10) 9 Nonprofit Org. Postage PAID Indiana University Alumni Association

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