News – Department of English, AAU Klagenfurt

International Online Conference “Narrative Encounters with Ethnic American Literatures”

23. August 2021/in News English and American Studies /by Daniela Werdnig

On September 2-4, 2021, the Department of English is hosting the International Online Conference “Narrative Encounters with Ethnic American Literatures,” convened by Alexa Weik von Mossner, Marijana Mikić, and Mario Grill within the framework of the FWF Narrative Encounters Project. https://narrativeencounters.aau.at/conference/ Taking a cue from pioneering efforts at the intersection of context-oriented approaches in race […]

English and American Studies: A passion for language and culture

Ateesha Sethia’s decision to study in Klagenfurt was a thoughtful one. After all, the student of English and American Studies, has seen over 50 countries and has lived in 7 of them before choosing to stay here. After growing up in a city of 15 million people, calling herself a “big-city-person”, she values Klagenfurt as a city that offers the best of both worlds – an abundance of nature and still, all the amenities of a big city.

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When Linguistics and Psychology Meet – New Research Project About Questioning Sequences in Coaching

4. July 2021/in News English and American Studies /by Linda Valentin-Mullen

Dr. Eva Graf is currently working on an exciting new research project about questioning sequences in coaching. She is building important groundwork to explore and improve the possibilities in the field of coaching. “In order to standardize coaching or to professionalize coaching, we not only need to know that it works, but we also need to very much know how it works,” says Graf.
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Insights into KuWi teaching… 3 questions for Nursen Gömceli

27. May 2021/in AAU News Anglistik, AAU News KuWi, KuWi Lehre, KuWi studieren, KuWi studieren-Stories /by KuWi studieren

What happens to feminism in the digital age? With her course, Nursen Gömceli offers students an opportunity to get insights into how digitalization has changed feminist activity in the 21st century. Students are engaged to find out how digital tools can be used to change things for the better.

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English idioms: Simplifying the acquisition of idioms for learners

27. May 2021/in AAU News, AAU News KuWi, ForscherInnen der KUWI im Porträt, News English and American Studies, Research, Research /by Forschungskommunikation

Idioms are regarded as particularly challenging when it comes to learning a second language. And yet, the comprehension and appropriate use of these expressions can serve to demonstrate greater linguistic proficiency. An Austrian-Russian project is now set to explore how English language learners from two different linguistic and cultural backgrounds approach the challenge of learning idioms. The project is funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF.

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“You are not alone.”

26. May 2021/in AAU News Anglistik, AAU News KuWi, ad astra 1/2021 /by Webredaktion2

“Firstly, you are not alone – you will hear us and see us daily as we guide New Zealand through this period”, these were the words of New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in March 2020. At the same time, the French President Emmanuel Macron declared war on the coronavirus with “Nous sommes en guerre.” We interviewed linguist Marta Degani to talk about different linguistic strategies in politics.

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English Language Teaching Today: Trends and Challenges

18. May 2021/in AAU News Anglistik, AAU News KuWi, KuWi studieren, News English and American Studies /by Lisa Svetina

Guest professor Irena Vodopija-Krstanovic has many links to the University of Klagenfurt. She is an alumna, had a guest professorship in the English Department in 2014 and co-organized an Alps-Adriatic-Adriatic-Anglistics conference with a colleague of the Department in Klagenfurt. We had a lot to talk about, including her current guest lecture “English Language Teaching Today: Trends and Challenges”.

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Online Guest Lecture: Gender in a Psychotherapeutic Interaction

30. April 2021/in News English and American Studies /by Linda Valentin-Mullen

Guest lecturer Prof. UAM dr hab. Joanna Pawelczyk Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan In this talk we will discuss how gender ‒ as one of the most salient social categories ‒ can be examined in language and interaction and how it emerges and matters in an interaction between a practitioner (a psychotherapist) […]

Workshop: Why is English spelling so weird? A diachronic perspective on the orthography of English

26. April 2021/in News English and American Studies, News English and American Studies /by Daniela Werdnig

It is a truth universally acknowledged that both first and second language speakers of English struggle immensely with its spelling. In this workshop, we will look at how English came to have the spelling system it has today and the ways in which orthography reflects widespread pronunciation in previous times as well as various accidents […]

Game Studies and Engineering: It’s the passion that drives me

16. March 2021/in AAU News KuWi, KuWi Studierende, News English and American Studies, News FacultyTeWi /by KuWi studieren

After achieving a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering at IIIT Una, India, Shivi Vats decided to come to Klagenfurt to continue studying with the master’s programme Games Studies and Engineering. In this interview he talks about why one should study at AAU and what advantages Klagenfurt has over a big city like Delhi, India.

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