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To all Second Year students taking modules in German Studies (unless on year abroad in 2^nd year):

· The German Studies 2^nd year module options ballot opens today on moodle, accessed via this .

· Before you complete the ballot, please have a look at the of the website. If you have any queries about module content you are welcome to email course tutors.

GE207 Tutors: Christine Achinger, Birgit Röder, Helmut Schmitz
Term 1
GE214 Tutor: Anne Fuchs
GE218 Tutor: Mary Cosgrove
Term 2
GE211 Tutor: Christine Achinger
GE212 Tutor: Helmut Schmitz
GE215 Tutor: Jim Jordon
GE217 Tutor: Ian Roberts

· You should then rank all the modules in order of preference, down to the last choice. If you choose two 15 CATS modules, you can choose to do 2 modules in the same term (there will be staggered assessment deadlines if you choose 100% assessment methods).

· If you are unsure how many CATS of German modules you need to take, please look at the of the website. There is a section at the bottom of the page for comments (please include details of any outside modules you would like to take if you are German Studies).

You have a week to complete the ballot closes on 12 noon on Friday 5 June. Failure to complete the ballot by the deadline may result in loss of choice.

With IAS Visiting Fellow, Professor Gilson Schwartz, University of São Paulo, Brazil

In collaboration with ÌÇÐÄTV ÌÇÐÄTV School

In collaboration with the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance (CSR), Giuseppe Gerbino, (Associate Professor of Music (Historical Musicology), Columbia University, will give a talk about his research, followed by a clinic to answer PhD students’ and postdoctoral researchers’ questions about pursuing an academic career in the U.S, and about making competitive funding applications/job applications (Visiting Fellowships, Postdocs etc.) in the U.S.

Organised by IAS Global Research Fellow, Dr Jacomien Prins, in collaboration with CSR.

Peter Hitchcock is Professor of English at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is also on the faculties of Women’s Studies and Film Studies at the GC, and Associate Director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics. He is the author of five books, including The Long Space, (Stanford University Press). His most recent publications include, “Accumulating Fictions” forRepresentations, “Immolation” for the Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights, “How to Read a Discipline” for Comparative Literature, “Culture and Anarchy in Thatcher’s London” for an anthology on Hanif Kureishi, “( ) of Ghosts” in The Spectralities Reader,“Defining the World” in Literary Materialisms and “Everything’s Gone Green: The Environment of BP’s Narrative” for Imaginations.Forthcoming works include an essay, “Viscosity and Velocity,” for an anthology on oil (Cornell), and an essay on communism titled “The Leninist Hypothesis” for Poetics Today. His current projects include a study of the representation of labor, essays on the “worlds” of postcoloniality and world literature, and a work that juxtaposes commodity culture with financial instruments (“Trading Objects”).