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Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES NEWSLETTER SPRING 2020 lsa.umich.edu/german Department of GERMANIC LANGUAGES & LITERATURES Congratulations Class of 2020 CLASS OF 2020: you’ve done it and we are so proud of you. To celebrate your achievement and mark this moment, we put together a graduation video for you and your family. We hope you enjoy it. We would love to hear from you! Send your comments or thoughts on the video and general well wishes for others to [email protected] and we'll post them on our website. You may also share with us via Facebook or Twitter. You have our very best wishes in your future endeavors! https://lsa.umich.edu/german/news- events/all-events/2020-graduation.html 2 Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures LETTER FROM THE CHAIR interaction. Our study-abroad students President Schlissel has recently declared were particularly hard hit since they had that the University of Michigan will likely return to on-campus operations in the Dear friends, to abort their academic year in Freiburg and abruptly return to the U.S., having fall, albeit it in a “public health-informed” More anxiously completed only one of their planned manner. To find out precisely what this than ever, I two semesters in Germany (German means for a language department like hope that this universities follow a different academic ours, you will need to wait until the next newsletter finds calendar, with the second semester newsletter. you and your running from mid-April to mid-July). families safe and healthy. I’m writing Sincerely, these lines from my home rather than my I’m proud to report that thanks to the university office, not because I prefer the heroic effort of our teachers and staff we quiet of the former over the bustle of the were able to bring the semester, despite latter, but because, like my colleagues, everything, to a satisfactory end. None Andreas Gailus I have been unable to enter my office of our classes were cancelled, and nearly [email protected] since the second week of March, when 100 of our majors and minors graduated the university shut down most of its on time. We even created a little gradua- This newsletter went into copy-editing before facilities. This is but one of the many tion video for them: have a look, it the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing ways in which the COVID-19 crisis has turned out quite nicely (you can find the protests in support of Black Lives Matter. upended life at the department. Shortly link to the video on our website). Since then, the department has met several after spring break, we had to switch times to discuss how we can support the practically overnight to remote teaching, Two of the articles in this newsletter work of anti-Black racism in the classroom which presented quite a few challenges. discuss in more detail the impact of and beyond. Among our actions for the fall It’s one thing to conduct a large lecture COVID-19 on our teaching (p. 7) and are: an additional undergraduate course class online; it’s quite another to do so study-abroad program (p. 4-5). But there on race and ethnicity; workshops on anti- with small seminars that depend heavily is much more to report. Domenic racist pedagogy; a bi-weekly colloquium on on student interaction and conversation. De Socio, who is currently completing questions of race and colonialism in German, That is of course nowhere more true his dissertation on queer and female Dutch, and Scandinavian culture; increased than in the foreign language classroom, visions of modernity, has also been efforts to bring German language instruction where students are expected to engage working on building an archive of texts to high schools serving underrepresented in small group activities to practice their and films by historically marginalized minorities in Southeast Michigan. This is only language skills. Under these circum- groups for use in our German classes the beginning. We can and will do more to stances, to switch to remote teaching (p. 8). Kristin Dickinson and Kira Thurman do our part to combat racism of all kinds meant thoroughly reorganizing syllabi both signed contracts for their first book inside and outside academia. (See also our and inventing entirely new exercises and monographs, which will be published in announcement in support of Black Lives activities, while also learning technolo- spring 2021 (you can read about Kira’s Matter at: https://lsa.umich.edu/german/ gies that most of us had rarely, if ever, work as a fellow at the famed Princeton news-events/all-news/search-news/black- lives-matter.html.) used before. Needless to say, this sudden Institute for Advanced Studies on p. 6). change also placed a great burden on Helmut Puff, who directed the Eisenberg our students, many of whom had to Institute for Historical Studies for the last return to their family homes where they two years, won a prestigious fellowship Highlights 4-5 were forced to conduct their German at the National Humanities Center (p. 6). Faculty Focus 6 lessons from the basement or kitchen, or, And our Swedish and Dutch programs In the Classroom 7 in some cases, even found themselves continue to grow and expand, bucking Graduate Student Focus 8-9 devoid of a workable internet connec- national trends (p.10, 11). Dutch Studies 10 tion, cut off from both friends and class Scandinavian Studies 11 lsa.umich.edu/german 3 HIGHLIGHTS Flattening the Curve in Freiburg by Peter McIsacc, Associate Professor In so many ways, the past outs. Ulli Struve’s impeccable thirteen months have been a organizing made the visa time of the unexpected for my bureaucracy and logistics of wife Ines, our two sons Lucas moving a snap, and, together and Oliver, and me. None with last year’s AD, Kerstin of us were thinking about Barndt and the many AYF heading to Freiburg in April partners around the city, he 2019 when the email arrived helped flatten a pretty steep announcing that Academic learning curve. Year in Freiburg’s (AYF) chosen Academic Director (AD) would As expected, AYF proved not be able to serve in 2019- to be an intense bonding 2020. But within a couple of experience with the students hours, the whole family had and the city. With a large decided to move to the “green cohort of 38 students—10 city.” Thanks to the quick from U-M—, the months action of everyone in the of September and October four-university consortium, were busy, yet the excursions the ink was drying on the AYF to France, Switzerland and contract less than two weeks the Black Forest, multiple later. Though not everything orientation sessions, and was going to be simple—due an hour of personalized to my wife’s fall 2019 teaching, academic advising per I would be mostly solo with student helped us get to my boys before winter know each other well. So break—the critical things students could get to know were in place by mid-May. Freiburg, I worked hard to recruit Freiburg “experts” Part of what made the for local case studies for my transition surprisingly smooth AYF course on current issues was that we had lived in in Germany and Freiburg. Germany before and my sons Freiburgers involved in speak German, but most of Holocaust commemoration, it came from what makes environmental politics, AYF special: the people from decolonization, lack of the AYF consortium and affordable housing, and the Marisa Rethman, helping place a "stumbling stone" in downtown Freiburg Program Director Ulli Struve refugee crisis responded to commemorating a member of the Veit family, all of whom were forced to in Freiburg. With help from my requests with stunning leave their homes and flee Germany or perish in concentration camps. former ADs, we quickly found generosity (some invited us spots at one of the city’s top to their homes, for personal Gymnasien and soccer try- tours of Freiburg, or for 4 Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures The Freiburg Study Abroad group, pictured in Schniederlihof at the foot of the Schauinsland mountain, Oberried, Baden-Württemberg. AYFers to help with things like ended in February, and then same time, Ulli and I needed had some choice, but nothing placing “stumbling stones” to a whole another semester. to develop a set of courses we have been able to do has remember Holocaust victims) that would allow students been able to provide the that created special connec- Then, in a year of the to get a second semester immersive quality unique to tion to the city. When we unexpected everywhere, the of AYF credit. Working with study abroad. This loss has returned from our January time came to flatten the other consortium partners, we been heartbreaking, and yet study trip to Berlin, the curve (COVID-19). While U-M expanded our original two I feel fortunate to have had students exclaimed “it’s good leadership allowed my family AYF courses to nine courses the semester I did in residence to be home,” as if they had and me to stay in Freiburg, our taught across the consortium, with our AYFers and I hope to never lived anywhere else. program onsite was canceled in online formats available to see many of them in Freiburg We had settled in and were as of mid-March and the next all AYFers. In the end, many again one day. looking forward to the two weeks were spent helping University of Freiburg courses months of time to travel and students return to the U.S.
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