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EDUCATION
New Courses this Fall!
Learn German fast with our 5 week online Intensive Blended classes for all levels. Learn individually through varied and authentic tasks on our learning platform – simple, flexible, and with top-quality materials. You will also […]
EVENTS
CA: Oct. 20, 2022 – Digitalization of Event Production
Join for an exciting half-day conference where future solutions will be discussed, like metaverse, AR/VR, and other ways to digitalize event production. Together with German and American experts, new tech founders, and government representatives we […]
EVENTS
IA: Oct. 21, 2022 – Speaking Truth to Power: The White Rose
Using stirring theme music, 80 powerful images and suspenseful storytelling, Dr. Newborn recounts how Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans – former fanatical Hitler Youth leaders – transformed uniquely to become the greatest heroes of […]
EVENTS
CA: Only Two Weeks Left – Exhibition of Iris Eichenberg | Where Words Fail
Iris Eichenberg | Where Words Fail will be the first comprehensive mid-career survey in the United States of this artist’s aesthetic. Since the mid-1970s, artists worldwide have reacted against the age-old exclusivity and preciousness of […]
TRAVEL
U.S. Travel Calls Increase in H-2B Visas a Big Win for Travel Industry
U.S. Travel Association President and CEO Geoff Freeman praised the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Wednesday announcement that it will make available an additional 65,000 H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas for fiscal year FY23: “After […]
CULTURE
LA: Oct 24, 2022 – ABDELLALI HAJJAT DISCUSSES HIS BOOK “THE WRETCHED OF FRANCE – THE 1983 MARCH FOR EQUALITY AND AGAINST RACISM”
Exile and Resistance: Migrants and Refugees in Literature, History, and Public Affairs, a collaboration between the Max Kade Institute, USC Libraries, and USC Dornsife’s Department of French and Italian continues with this book talk on […]
CULTURE
LA: Oct 25, 2022 – LINDA KALJUNDI: REMOVING STATUES IN THE AGE OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE
Several countries neighboring Russia have responded to the war in Ukraine with a campaign against Soviet monuments. Many statues have been taken down, with plans for removing more. In Estonia, the state plans to clear […]
EVENTS
IL: Oct. 22, 2022 – Oktoberfest Quad Cities
Celebrate the QC’s German roots with the German American Heritage Center and Hauberg Estate! Join at the Hauberg Estate in Rock Island on Saturday, October 22nd, 2022, from 12 PM to 9 PM for the […]
EVENTS
IA: Oct. 16, 2022 – Odysseys of Survival: The Deportation of Polish Jews to the Soviet Interior
This presentation focuses on a little-known but significant part of the history of Polish Jews during WWII: the escape, deportation, and evacuation of Polish Jews into the interior of the Soviet Union. The unintended consequence […]