Three German M.A. students traveled to Washington D.C. to present papers at Georgetown University’s annual graduate student conference in German Studies. This year the conference was titled “Dissent, Disagreement and Difference: Understanding Conflict within German Studies.”

• Greg Sheets: “Defining by Excluding: Richard Wagner’s Failed Definition of Germanness.”
• Julia Engellandt: “Mobility and Grieving in Olivia Wenzel’s 1000 Coils of Fear.” 
• Nastasja Winterfeld: “Racist Stereotyping of Racial Others as Sexual Aggressors by German Media During the Rhineland Occupation and After New Year’s Eve in Cologne 2015"