Between the 1920s and the 1940s, many German and Austrian Jews who were escaping persecution from the Holocaust sought refuge in Shanghai, China. While there is extensive research on the impact of the Holocaust in the West, I chose to explore the escape and patterns of migration to East Asia. In Shanghai, China, European Jews […]
C29: Der Krieg und die Krieger im deutschen Film: authentische Perspektiven und Geschichten War in German Cinema: Authentic Perspectives of the Soldiers’ Stories
The experience of war is transformative. It upheaves, changes, then dispenses with the lives of those who experience it, leaving them to rebuild from the ruins and establish new normality. This understanding of war is strongly echoed in the German cinematic canon of the 1920s through the 1960s. This project views these films as primary […]
A35-P: Battles of Translation: Vergil’s Aeneid in English and German
This project studies translation theory and various translations of Vergil’s Aeneid. It seeks to determine what key factors make for the best translations of classical epic, particularly of the Aeneid. The project begins by examining the supremacy of epic and the fous in European cultures on the Aeneid. Next, the paper establishes the theoretical background […]
CSIV-05: Car Cultures: How Postwar Media and Policy Shaped Current Transportation Use in Germany and the U.S.
The United States (U.S.) and Germany are both major automobile manufacturing countries, yet their rates of car usage differ enormously. The U.S. is primarily automobile dependent, with 86% of daily trips in 2009 taken by car, whereas in Germany, that figure is only 54% (Buehler et al., 2017, p. 4). According to transportation scholars Buehler […]
A42: Roman Influence on the Emergence of Written German
German is one of the most widely spoken languages today, but what do we know about its origins? While German as a language is different from Latin and later Romance languages, many Indo-European elements of German are very similar to Latin, especially lexically and morphologically. The earliest accounts of the “Germani” were written by Roman […]