Past Events

Wind of Changes? German Policies and Responses to the Invasion of Ukraine
Thursday, March 10

A discussion of current German political and economic policy changes as well as public responses following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

With Kathrin Ellieroth, Assistant Professor of Economics, Arne Koch, Associate Professor of German, and Jennifer Yoder, Robert E. Diamond Professor of Government and Global Studies.

Participants are invited to explore a few short print and video sources, which can be found below, ahead of the discussion. Open to the public, masking required.

Co-sponsored by the Departments of German and Russian, Economics, and Government.

Questions? Please reach out to Arne Koch.

JANA PAREIGIS VISIT
February 24, 2020

Screening of her film, Afro.Germany followed by a question and answer period.

Jana Pareigis is a journalist and main anchor of the news program “Mittagsmagazin” at ZDF, Germany’s national public television broadcaster. Before that she was a news anchor of “ZDF-Morgenmagazin”. She is also the director and writer of the television documentary “Afro.Germany” (2017, DW), in which she interviews black people in Germany on racism and empowerment and shares her own personal experiences. In 2010 she completed her journalism traineeship at DW, Germany’s international broadcaster, in Bonn, Berlin and Brussels and started working as a reporter and TV news anchor for DW’s flagship program “Journal”. She studied political science and African studies in Hamburg, New York and Berlin and has a Master’s degree from Freie Universität Berlin.(co-sponsored with Center for the Arts and Humanities, the Dean of the College, the Pugh Center, Cinema Studies, and the Oak Institute).

An Evening w/ Mo Asumang
Screening of “The Aryans” (2014), Q&A with Mo Asumang
November 8, 2018

Following the screening of her award-winning documentary Die Arier/The Aryans (2014), acclaimed Afro-German filmmaker Mo Asumang joined the Colby community for a conversation and Q&A about the making of her film and its aftermath.

In her film and later book adaptation, following a death threat, Mo Asumang sets out to confront racists face to face. In her documentary about right-wing movements worldwide, Asumang embarks on a journey into the madness of racism and meets German neo-Nazis, America’s most notorious racist Tom Metzger, and members of the KKK in the Midwest.

Co-sponsored by German and Russian, Jewish Studies, History, Cinema Studies, the Center for the Arts and Humanities ans the Cultural Events Committee.

Worldvision Song Contest
November 1, 2018, Ostrove Auditorium

In front of a packed house in Ostrove, once again all eight of Colby’s Language Assistants and their students performed outstanding songs in German, French, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Arabic, and Spanish. Our German LA Amalie had prepped our students better than ever and after a 10-year-drought, TEAM GERMAN once again claimed the title. With a stunning performance of Peter Schilling’s ‘Major Tom’, the German Team brought home the cup and with it glory and bragging rights for the next twelve months. 2008 to 2018! The wait is finally over congrats!

German Thing! – A Discussion of Contemporary Germany
October 1, 2018, 7:30 pm

An informal discussion of contemporary hot topics in the German-speaking world. No better topic to kick off things (what a pun?!) than a discussion of “Fußball and Germanness”. The plan: Let’s all catch up a bit with a brief shared reading (“Mesut Özil walks away from Germany team citing ‘racism and disrespect’,” The Guardian July 22, 2018, online,), and then we just talk about it. Share reactions. See where the evening takes us.

German Summer Research at CUSRR
The Forks, Maine, July 26, 2018

Briana Killian ’21 will be presenting preliminary results from her summer RA work on “CAT MAPS – A Digital Humanities Project”, with Professor Koch, at the 12th Colby Undergraduate Research Summer Research Retreat at The Forks. After a day of poster and oral presentations, the 100+ Colby students will be spending a day whitewater rafting down the Kennebec river.