Aerial view of a village on the Danube in Austria

Reckoning with the Holocaust

Apr 22, 2019
Nicholas Haeg ’20 was part of a group of faculty and student researchers from Grinnell College and Yale University that dispersed over the European continent during summer 2018 to document country-by-country both the remembrance and the revisionism that surround the Holocaust.
Dan Reynolds and the cover of Postcards from Auschwitz

Dark Tourism? Travel to Sites of Holocaust Remembrance, Wed., March 13, 2019, at 4:15 pm, Burling Lounge

Mar 11, 2019
Dan Reynolds, Seth Richards Professor in Modern Languages, will present his reflections on visits to Holocaust memorials and museums, the topic of his recent book Postcards from Auschwitz: Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance.
German exhibit in Burling Library Special Collections

Exhibit on German in Grinnell's Humanities

Nov 21, 2018

An exhibit on German in Grinnell’s humanities is now on display in the Special Collections

Grinnell College Professor to Give Book Talk on German Literature, Panoramas

Apr 20, 2018
German prof Vance Byrd to discuss panorama, industrialization, scientific exploration and 19th century German literature April 26.
Barbara Yelin artwork of burning church

Writer-in-Residence: Barbara Yelin

Apr 10, 2018
The award-winning graphic novelist and 2018 Department of German artist-in-residence will give a lecture and discussion in German and English starting at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, April 24 in Faulconer Gallery.

I Wanna Be Americano: A German Crisis of Identity

Feb 14, 2018
A video snippets speech performance by Jürgen Kuttner.

Grinnell College Plans Installation Ceremony for Endowed Chairs, Professorships

Nov 07, 2017
Honorees at Nov. 14 event will be Shuchi Kapila, Elaine Marzluff, Daniel Reynolds, and Erik Simpson.

We Are Young. We Are Strong Film Screening Explores Radicalization of White Youths

Oct 19, 2017
Film with a fictional account of the worst attacks against immigrants in post-war Germany will be followed by an informal discussion.

German Campus Week 2017

Sep 08, 2017
The German Department at Grinnell College is happy to announce that it has received a grant from the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany to participate in the Campus Week campaign during fall semester 2017.
2016-17 Fulbright recipients

Seven Seniors and One Graduate Awarded Fulbright Grants

May 19, 2017
They will use the prestigious grants to support international study, research, and teaching.

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