UW Center for German & European Studies
University of Wisconsin Professor, Myra Marx Ferree, is conducting research on Gender, Society, and Higher Education. She looks at how university structures are challenged to do a better job at including women especially in the higher ranks, because women scientists are seen as a significant part of the human capital that nations can hardly afford …
CGES Graduate Student Research Assistant (RA) Competition for Fall 2017 The Center for German and European Studies announces two research assistantships (50% appointment including tuition remission and health insurance) to be offered to well-qualified students whose research fits within the six CGES themes for 2017-2018. Descriptions of these themes can be found at: https://daadcenter.wisc.edu/research/. Students …
In the Fall of 2016, former UW- Madison student, Tessa Coggio, completed a Bundestag Internship where she worked with the Parliamentary Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development. Below is a first-hand account of her time abroad: “The Emigre Memorial German Internship was easily the most valuable practical-learning experience I’ve had to date. The Bundestag is a …
This provocative study asks why we have held on to vivid images of the Nazis’ total control of the visual and performing arts, even though research has shown that many artists and their works thrived under Hitler. To answer this question, Pamela M. Potter investigates how historians since 1945 have written about music, art, architecture, …