Refugees and Displaced Persons in Postwar Austria: A Class Exhibition

The following website contains work completed by students in Professor Andrew Urban’s seminar, “Gatekeeping Nations: The Politics of Migration Control in the United States and Europe,” which took place during the spring 2019 term.

Migration Studies and Narratives of Displacement: A Class Project at the University of Klagenfurt

The site is divided into three sections, and features a student-curated online exhibition on Displaced Persons in Austria and Europe during the years 1945 to 1947, and posts that address firsthand accounts of migration and how migration is covered by the media.

 

ELT 2020

INSIGHTS INTO THEORY AND PRACTICE FOR FUTURE EFL TEACHERS

Friday, 17 January, 2020
8:20 – 5:00 pm
Stiftungssaal der Kärntner Sparkasse (O.0.1)

PRESENTERS:

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sarah Mercer, KFU Graz
Dr. Volker Eisenlauer, Universität der Bundeswehr München
Dr. Thorsten Merse, LMU München
Max von Blanckenburg, MA, LMU München
Dinorah Sapp, MA, University of Mississippi
Neil Stainthorpe, MA, Pädagogische Hochschule d. D. Linz
Mag. Verena Novak-Geiger, BA, Universität Klagenfurt

ELT 2020

 

US Exchange Information Event: Joint-Study and Fulbright

 

Save the Date: On October 29, 2019 the English Department hosts “US Exchange Information Event:Joint-Study and Fulbright” at 4 pm in N.0.27.

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Teaching German in the US as a Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA)

Vanessa Erat finished her MA in English and American Studies with a thesis on “Elves and Empire: Challenging the Ludonarrative Colonialism and Othering in Dragon Age: Inquisition” in May 2018 and then left for the United States in August 2018 to work as a Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) at the University of Oklahoma (OU) in the academic year 2018-2019. Today, she joins us to talk about some of her experiences and to offer advice to everybody who would also be interested in spending a year in the US teaching German as a foreign language.

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