Past Events

While advanced German and the movie The Breakfast Club might not bear an obvious connection, the two are linked in senior Ella Dittmann’s mind. She is one of eight students who participated in the German Kabarett (Cabaret) course this spring, and for her the end of the semester is bittersweet. ”We have people from all over—we’ve got people from STEM, the humanities, actors and people who have never acted before,” she said. “It’s weird, I feel like I’ve never felt this in a class.”

Started by Nikolaus Euba in 2004, for some...

There has been an extraordinary rise of interest in the use of ‘emotion’ and ‘creativity’ as leitmotivs in language learning research and teaching. I begin this talk by briefly reviewing some developments of these terms in language education scholarship (including two recent special issues I jointly guest-edited), before then presenting some approaches I have...

This presentation focuses on an intermediate Russian course taught through engaging and relatable youth-centric works of the period of cultural liberalization following Stalin’s rule. Employing an integrated approach to reading, writing, and communication, the course places literary and non-literary texts at the center of the curriculum. Elements include three thematic...