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Event Location: RPAC North Plaza
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Recent News
Check out the 2026 Dresden Summer Language Program Blog
Check out the 2026 Dresden Summer Language Program Blog, with photos and posts created by the fifteen students who participated.
While a course requirement, the blog is also an opportunity…
Candidacy Exam Success!
We congratulate Rop, who has successfully passed his candidacy exam!
Rop advanced to candidacy presenting his dissertation work entitled Addressing Archival Gaps and…
Foerster selected as GLL's 2026-27 Max Kade Dissertation Fellow
We congratulate Marcel Foerster, PhD Candidate in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, on being selected as the 2026-27 Max Kade Dissertation Fellow!
Last…
Reitter at Institute for Advanced Study-Princeton SP27
Paul Reitter has been selected to a be a Member for Term II of next academic year (spring 2027) at the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.