All Posts: Fall 2024

11 Articles

Fall 2024
Past Events

Department Events: Fall 2024

The German Department is proud to have presented a large variety of events during the Fall 2024 semester! During the first week of October, the German Department, with the…

December 17, 2024

Fall 2024
Undergraduate Students

A Summer to Remember: Georgetown-in-Trier 2024

From June 1 to July 6, 2024, 16 students from Georgetown University and partner institutions traveled to Trier, Germany, for the annual Georgetown-in-Trier summer study abroad…

December 17, 2024

Fall 2024
PhD Students

Graduate Student News

Congratulations to Ekaterina Soloveva (PhD ’24) on the successful defense of her dissertation Post-Soviet Migrant Identity in Germany Through the Eyes of Generation 1.5:…

December 17, 2024

Fall 2024
Undergraduate Students

Undergraduate Student News

During the spring semester of 2024, Andre Albrecht (IBLC, COL ’27) was selected as one of 25 recipients of The Laidlaw Undergraduate Leadership and Research Scholarship. He…

December 17, 2024

Fall 2024
Undergraduate Students

German Club Updates

This semester, German Club successfully hosted four exciting events! As for social get-together’s, we were happy to see many of you at our German Club x European Club BBQ…

December 17, 2024

Fall 2024

Alumni News

Two of our recent graduates, Helen Poe (CAS, ‘22) and Soma Arens (CAS, ‘24), have been successful in securing International Parliamentary Scholarships (IPS) for 2025.…

December 17, 2024

Fall 2024

Max Kade Professor Dr. Steffen Siegel’s Semester at Georgetown

The German Department was honored to host Dr. Steffen Siegel as the Visiting Max Kade Professor during the fall 2024 semester. Dr. Siegel came to us from Folkwang University of…

December 17, 2024

Fall 2024

Farewell from Visiting Researcher Sandra Schell

I was very fortunate to have spent the Fall 2024 semester as a visiting researcher in the German Department at Georgetown University. Researching the U.S. ‘reeducation’s’…

December 17, 2024

Fall 2024

In Memoriam Kurt R. Jankowsky

Longtime professor of German linguistics, Kurt R. Jankowsky, died October 10, 2024, after a long illness. As teacher, researcher, and administrator, Prof. Jankowsky shaped the…

December 17, 2024

Fall 2024

Looking Ahead to the Spring Semester

Prof. Kurt Beals (University of Richmond) will read from his new translation of Erich Maria Remarque’s Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) and talk about…

December 17, 2024