PAST EVENTS
2024-2025
Dec. 4, 2024: Monica Berg: “German-American Attitudes and Expressions in Indianapolis, 1914-1918”
Nov. 15, 2024: Visit to the IU Indianapolis Library German American archives
2023-2024
Apr. 13, 2024: Dr. Petra Watzke: Alternative Grading Methods workshop for DaF educators
Nov. 10, 2023: Dr. Michelle Moyd “‘Jambo, Ihr Jungmannen und Jungmädchen’: Reclaiming Lost Colonies for German Youth in the Magazine Jambo , 1924-1943″
Sept. 28, 2023: Dr. Audrey Ricke book talk on Oktoberfest in Brazil
2022-2023
Apr. 15, 2023: As part of KO:IN Pride, discussion facilitation between Indiana and Cologne queer youth at IYG “Raise Your Voice” Youth Summit
Mar. 23, 2023: Sunset Boulevard film screening with the Athenaeum
Feb. 23, 2023: Emil und die Detektive film screening with the Athenaeum
Feb. 10-11, 2023: Feminist German Studies Writing Workshop
Feb. 9, 2023: Dr. Andrea Dawn Bryant: “The Voice of the Reader: Intertextual Readings of Black German Literature”
Dec. 7, 2022: Grace McDowell: “(Wo)man, Wolf, and Borders”
Dec. 3, 2022: Sankt Nikolaustag Sponsorship; Carmel Christkindlmarkt
Nov.-Dec. 2022: O Hoosier Tannenbaum at the Indiana Historical Society’s Festival of Trees
Oct. 7, 2022: Dr. Joshua R. Brown: “Forensic Linguistics and German-American Multilingualism: New Ways of Using Old Evidence”
2021-2022
Apr. 16, 2022: Illi Anna Heger workshop for DaF educators
Apr. 7, 2022: Dr. Atina Grossman lecture, co-sponsored with IUB Borns Jewish Studies Program: “Enemy Aliens and Refugees from Nazism in Global Transit: German Jews in Colonial British India”
Mar. 24, 2022: Dr. Adrienne Merritt: “Weathering the Wake: Black German Ecologies, Cultural Production, and Communities”
Dec. 4, 2021: Sankt Nikolaustag Sponsorship; Carmel Christkindlmarkt
Dec. 1, 2021: Ellie Lawson Presentation: “German-American Jews during the Holocaust”
Nov.-Dec. 2021: O Hoosier Tannenbaum at the Indiana Historical Society’s Festival of Trees
Oct. 22, 2021: Dr. Sara Luly – Haunted Minds, Haunted Homes: War and Memory in the Works of Caroline de la Motte Fouque
Sept. 29, 2021: Dr. Thomas Haakenson: Queering the Avant-Garde
Sept. 16, 2021: A book talk with Dr. David Gramling: The Invention of Multilingualism
2020-2021
May 6, 2021 – Antje Petty talk: “Public Health and Pandemics in the German-American Press”
Apr. 22, 2021 – Richard W. McCormick “Sex, Politics, and Comedy: The Transnational Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch”
Feb. 4, 2021 – Images of Insurrection panel
Dec. 5, 2020 – MKC Book Club: Dr. Priscilla Layne (UNC Chapel Hill) presented Nora Krug’s graphic novel Belonging
Nov. 19, 2020 – Conversation with Filmmaker and Actor Sheri Hagen, moderated by Dr. Tiffany Florvil
Nov. 13&14, 2020 – Decentering German Cinema conference
Oct. 10, 2020 – MKC Book Club: Dr. Ervin Malakaj (The University of British Columbia) presented Stefan Zweig?s novella Confusion.
2019-2020
Feb. 22, 2020 – Sütterlin Workshop with Dr. Rachel Wheeler (IUPUI)
Dec. 6, 2019 – Sankt Nikolaus (Event Coordination and Sponsorship; Carmel Christkindlmarkt)
Dec. 5, 2019 – Sankt Nikolaus Lauf (Official Event Sponsor)
Nov. 7, 2019 – Rosemarie Pena “Black Germans in America”
Nov. 4, 2019 – Tobias David “Remembering the Fall of the Berlin Wall: From German Unity to a New Beginning? (Event Sponsorship)
Oct. 10-20, 2019 – Heartlands Film Festival: Cultural Journey: Germany (Event Sponsorship)
Sept. 10, 2019 – Mark Roseman “Teaching and Scholarship on the Holocaust in the United States” (Event Sponsorship)
