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At Emory University, German Studies is a freestanding department within the Emory College of Arts & Sciences. It offers a pedagogically-driven and integrated undergraduate major and minor in German Studies. In addition, the German Studies faculty teach courses in Yiddish language and culture, the Program in Linguistics, the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, the Sustainability Minor, the Departments of Music and Film & Media Studies, Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies (MESAS), and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Faced with Germany’s abhorrent Nazi past and the atrocities committed during the Holocaust as well as the legacy of German colonialism, the Department is particularly committed to critically examine cultural memories of oppression and resistance, and therefore actively promotes Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), in research, coursework, and outreach.

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An article about Hiram Maxim's research on working with Emory students to explore Atlanta's linguistic landscape recently appeared in an open-access volume on educational agency and activism edited by Durk Gorter and Edina Krompák.

 

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In conjunction with Peter Höyng's research on "Beethoven in the Age of Censorship," he has been invited to give an introduction to a performance of Beethoven's 6th and 8th Symphonies by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at the Woodruff Arts Center on Saturday, March 1, at 6:30pm. Höyng will also present introductory remarks at the Woodruff Arts Center on Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" on May 10, at 6:30 pm.

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The 100 Days Project

In our highly contentious political climate, the German Studies Department wanted to share a project conducted in 2017 by a research team of 25 Emory German Studies students, led by Professor Hiram Maxim, that documented the first 100 days of National Socialism––from the day that Adolf Hitler was named Reichskanzler on January 30, 1933 until May 9, 1933. Revisit the "100 Days Project" from 2017.

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