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Peggy Piesche, visiting instructor of German and Russian studies, presented her work on the German author and philosopher Christoph Martin Wieland on March 22 during the 44th annual convention of Northeast Modern Language Association in Boston.

Hamilton senior Eric Green has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to Germany for 2013-14.  An economics major and German minor, he studied at the University of Freiburg in Germany in 2012.

Peggy Piesche, visiting instructor of German and Russian studies, discussed her work on Christoph Martin Wieland on March 1 at a colloquium of the Institute for German Cultural Studies at Cornell University.

Peggy Piesche, visiting instructor of German and Russian studies, participated in the first public event of the newly founded Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies.

Visiting Instructor of German and Russian Studies Peggy Piesche delivered invited lectures on Nov. 19 and 20 at the University of Bayreuth.

In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Audre Lorde’s death, Visiting Instructor of German & Russian Studies Peggy Piesche published a new anthology, Eurer Schweigen nützt euch nichts:  Audre Lorde und die Schwarze Frauenbewegung in Deutschland (Your Silence Will Not Protect You:  Audre Lorde and the Black Women’s Movement in Germany). The book was launched with a discussion and reading on Nov. 21 in one of the main theaters in Berlin (Volksbühne).

Visiting Instructor of German and Russian Studies Peggy Piesche participated at the Second Annual Convention of the Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey (BGCSNJ) Aug. 10-11 at Barnard College. The theme of the conference was “What is the Black German Experience? History, Performance, Popular and Visual Cultures.”

Peggy Piesche, visiting instructor of German and Russian Studies, presented  papers at the University of Bayreuth and Humboldt University of Berlin this summer.

Peggy Piesche, visiting instructor of German and Russian studies, co-authored an article titled “Das Trauma der Schuld oder: Wie lässt sich koloniale Geschichte in einem post-kolonialen Deutschland von heute denken?” (“The trauma of guilt or: How can colonial History be contextualized in a post- colonial Germany of today?”) in the April issue of Freitext, a German journal on social justice and culture.

Visiting Instructor of German and Russian Studies Peggy Piesche was interviewed by Deutsche Welle Arts and Culture for an article on the ongoing nationwide debate about the use of blackface makeup on German theatre stages.