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-11 posts tagged "germany"
Tom Naatz | Wednesday, September 26, 2018
In the late summer of 2015, Germany opened its borders to a large number of Syrian refugees who were fleeing their country for Europe. That policy choice has had many ramifications in the nearly three years since. In recent weeks, the city of Chemnitz in eastern Germany has seen an acute backlash against foreigners after
Eddie Damstra | Monday, September 24, 2018
According to some political pundits, comedians and many people on Twitter, Donald Trump is not simply a bad president; he is an authoritarian fascist. Some have even likened the president to Adolf Hitler, arguing that policies like the travel ban or those dealing with border enforcement are not too dissimilar from the oppression carried out
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, October 5, 2017
I swore I wouldn’t be that girl. I would not come back from abroad and begin every other sentence with “When I was in…” But when I looked in the mirror this morning, I knew I wasn’t the same person that I had been when I made that declaration. And that is why I am
Martha Reilly | Friday, April 21, 2017
Saint Mary’s senior Alyssa Mazurek had good fortune over spring break when “The Price is Right” host Drew Carey asked her to “come on down” during a March 15 taping of the show. Mazurek said she, her boyfriend and his friend traveled to the “The Price is Right” studio in Los Angeles with no expectations
Alexandra Muck | Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Professors from the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies explored the current political landscape and the rise of right-wing populism in Europe through the lens of four countries: France, the Netherlands, Italy and Germany. Olivier Morel, assistant professor of Film, Television and Theatre (FTT) and Romance Languages and Literatures, began
Sydney Enlow | Wednesday, April 13, 2016
The end of the year is usually a time seniors scramble to make decisions on post-graduation opportunities, but Saint Mary’s senior and accounting major Meghan Flanagan finally knows what awaits her. Flanagan was awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarship to Germany and an acceptance into the U.S. Teaching Assistant Program of the Austrian Ministry of Education and
Jenna Wilson | Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Germany is paralyzed by fear, according to Dr. Tim Lörke, the Max Kade Visiting Professor in German, and a professor at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, Free University Berlin. Lörke delivered a lecture titled “Impressions of a Frightened Nation — Germany’s Role in the International Refugee Crisis” on Tuesday night, sponsored by the
Catherine Owers | Thursday, October 15, 2015
Dr. Jeffrey Luppes, assistant professor of German at Indiana University South Bend (IUSB), delivered a lecture Wednesday afternoon titled “German Wartime Suffering and the Holocaust in Postwar Memory.” The lecture was presented as part of the “Germany’s Confrontation with the Holocaust in a Global Context” exhibition. At the end and after the conclusion of
Kayla Mullen | Tuesday, November 11, 2014
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies sponsored a faculty panel Tuesday in the Hesburgh Center for International Studies to discuss the significance of the events in 1989 in Eastern Europe and their importance to international
Seamus Ronan | Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Accompanied by my two good friends, Alex Techar and Elle Necome, I traveled to Berlin this past weekend. While the golden Wießbier, the delicious brats and beauty of the Tiergarten would normally be enough to make the trek from Spain to Germany, we had a purpose in mind. It was the 25th anniversary of the Fall