WueGlobal Conversation Seminars & Tandems
WueGlobal Conversation Seminars
These bi-/multilateral teaching formats, developed by the University of Wuerzburg with one or more partner universities, allow students to participate in constructive and meaningful exchange with peers across the globe. Together with their international colleagues, University of Wuerzburg faculty members have designed a range of innovative concurrent course formats to bring students together for regular shared conversations as well as intensive semester-long collaboration via simultaneous videoconference. Joint presentations and exploration of shared topics, multilateral writing groups and didactic exchange amongst the instructors are hallmarks of the Global Conversation Seminar formats.
For an overview of current and planned Global Conversation Seminars, please consult the seminar listings below:
Seminars in Summer term 2022
April 20th - Juli 20th. weekly, Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. "WueGlobal - American Literature and the Poetics of Environmental Crisis" - Prof. Dr. Catrin Gersdorf (JMU American Studies) + Prof. Dr. Hannes Bergthaller (National Taiwan Normal University American Studies) - (additional information and enrollment here)
April 25th - June 8th. varying dates, 17:00 p.m. - 19:00 p.m. "Monuments & Memory (with Flagler College + JMU History)" - Caterina Schmitz + Prof. Dr. MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (JMU American Studies) (additional information and enrollment here)
April 29th - July 22nd. individual dates ("Blockseminar"): "Think Global, Act Local: Reading the Environment on Different Scales" - Lena Pfeifer (additional information and enrollment here)
June 20th - 21st. 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.: Workshop: (Anti) Racism and Eduction - Transatlantic Perspectives 2022 (additional information and enrollment here) > The official program can be found here <
Conversation Seminars of the last semesters
November 10th 2020 - February 2nd 2020 (Tuesday, 12pm - 2pm) "Environmental Activism – Writing Change(s)?" - Lena Pfeiffer, MA (JMU Amerikanistik) + National Chung Hsing University Taichung (Taiwan)
April 14th - July 7th (Wednesdays, 10 am – 12 pm) ”WueGlobal - Cultural Studies around the World: Theories of Engaged Scholarship Between National and Transnational Frameworks #WueOnlin” - Prof. Dr. Zeno Ackermann (JMU Anglistik) + Prof. Dr. MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (JMU Amerikanistik) + Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi (Indien) + Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi (Indien)
April 155th - July 8th (Thursday, 10 am – 12 pm) “Irish Studies in the EFL Classroom #ISWÜ”#WüOnline" - Prof. Dr. Maria Eisenmann (JMU Englische Fachdidaktik) + University College Cork (Irland)
April 19th - July 5th (Mondays, 5 pm – 7 pm)„Monuments & Memory“ - Prof. Dr. MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (JMU Amerikanistik) + Prof. Dr. Helmut Flachenecker (JMU Geschichte) + Flagler College, Florida (USA)
April 20th - July 6th (Tuesdays, 12 pm – 2 pm) “The Green Atlantic Revis(it)ed: Irish, American, and Irish American New Historical Fiction #ISWÜ#WüOnline” - PD Dr. Ina Bergmann (JMU Amerikanistik) + University College Cork (Irland)
20.10. – 02.02. weekly, Wednesday 10am – 12pm : “WueGlobal – Environmentalism and Climate Change in the U.S. #WueOnline” – Prof.Dr. Catrin Gersdorf (JMU Amerikanistik) + Prof.Dr. Hannes Bergthaller (National Taiwan Normal University Amerikanistik)
20.10. - 02.02. weekly, Wednesday 10am – 12pm: ”WueGlobal – Cultural Studies Colloquium (CSD): Cultural Studies and Sound – From Foundational Theories to Current Research#WueOnline” – Prof. Dr. Zeno Ackermann (JMU Anglistik) + Prof. Dr. MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (JMU Amerikanistik) + Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi (Indien) + Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi (Indien)
20.10.- 09.02. weekly, Wednesday 14pm - 12pm Practical Seminar: Urban Cultures of Memory (Dr. Julien Bobineau)
26.10. - 04.02. weekly, Tuesday, 14pm - 16pm: WueGlobal – „History Written with Lightning” – Reeinvisioning US-American History in Film (Writing-focused Seminar)#WueOnline – Prof. Dr. MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (JMU Amerikanistik) + Gastvortragende
27.10. - 22.12. weekly, Wednesday 12pm - 3pm: "Beer History" (Prof. Dr. Wayne Riggs)
28.10 - 23.12. weekly, Thursday 4pm - 7pm: Religion and Nationalism (Prof. Dr. Wayne Riggs)
WueGlobal Tandems
WueGlobal Tandems offer a variation of the Global Conversation Seminar format focused on promoting student exchange in a more intimate, small-group setting. Depending on the framework of the respective tandem, virtual peer-to-peer communication may either take place asynchronously and/or synchronously. In particular though integration into practical language and cultural history course units, WueGlobal Tandems enable students to communicate in their respective second language on a more advanced level as well as share their own linguistic and cultural competencies with peers in productive horizontal learning experience. Over the course of several weeks within the semester, small groups of two to three students meet to exchange ideas on topics relevant to the corresponding seminar.
While the verbally conducted Tandems mostly take place synchronously and aim at improving communication skills, the written tandems are primarily carried out asynchronously to allow time for mutual editing and feedback rounds on the texts developed within the tandem exchange. All tandems are systematic in approach and overseen by facilitators, but simultaneously leave room for open, mutually enriching dialogue between the respective exchange partners.
Tandems Seminars of the last semesters
November 5th 2020 - February 4th 2021 (Thursdays, 4 pm – 8 pm) „Russisch: Grundkurs 1 Gruppe 1” – Dr. Elena Dieser; Verbally conducted tandems in which Russian students from the Samara Research University (Samara/Russia) and German students from the JMU engage in multilingual, multifaceted dialogue.
November 10th 2020 - February 2nd 2021 (Tuesdays, 2 pm – 4 pm) „Russisch: Grundkurs I Gruppe 2” – Dr. Elena Dieser; Verbally conducted tandems in which Russian students from the Samara Research University (Samara/Russia) and German students from the JMU engage in multilingual, multifaceted dialogue.
November 19th 2020 (8:30 am – 10 am) „Universitätskulturen in Deutschland und Frankreich“ (verbally conducted Tandem): „KENNENLERNEN + STUDIEREN ZU CORONA ZEITEN IN CAEN UND WÜRZBURG“/« FAIRE CONNAISSANCE + LES ÉTUDES À CAEN ET À WÜRZBURG EN TEMPS DE COVID » – Annika Möller, M.A., Département des études germaniques (Université de Caen Normandy) + Raphaëlle Jung, Romance Studies (Julius-Maximilian-University Wuerzburg)
November 26th 2020 (8:30 am – 10 am) „Universitätskulturen in Deutschland und Frankreich“ (verbally conducted Tandem 2): „LEHR-LERNKULTUREN IN CAEN UND WÜRZBURG“ /« CULTURE(S) UNIVERSITAIRE(S) À CAEN ET À WÜRZBURG »
December 3rd 2020 (8:30 am – 10 am) „Universitätskulturen in Deutschland und Frankreich“ (verbally conducted Tandem 3): „STUDIERENDENLEBEN IN CAEN UND WÜRZBURG“ / « VIE ÉTUDIANTE À CAEN ET À WÜRZBURG »
January 11th 2021 (8 am – 9 am) „Protest und Protestbewegungen“ / « Contestation et mouvements contestataires » - written Tandem : „Kick off" – Annika Möller, M.A., Département des études germaniques (Université de Caen Normandy) + Raphaëlle Jung, Romance Studies (Julius-Maximilian-University Wuerzburg)
January 18th – January 24th 2021 (asynchronously) „Protest und Protestbewegungen“ / « Contestation et mouvements contestataires » - written Tandem: „part 1“
January 25th – January 31st 2021 (asynchronously) „Protest und Protestbewegungen“ / « Contestation et mouvements contestataires » - written Tandem: „part 2“
February 1st – February 7th 2021 (asynchronously) „Protest und Protestbewegungen“ / « Contestation et mouvements contestataires » - written Tandem: „part 3“
April 15th - July 8th (Thursdays, 4 pm – 8 pm) “Russisch Grundkurs 2: Gruppe 1“ - Dr. Elena Dieser; Verbally conducted tandems in which Russian students from the Samara Research University (Samara/Russia) and German students from the JMU engage in multilingual, multifaceted dialogue.
April 20th - July 6th (Tuesdays, 2 pm – 4 pm) “Russisch Grundkurs 2: Gruppe 2“ - Dr. Elena Dieser; Verbally conducted tandems in which Russian students from the Samara Research University (Samara/Russia) and German students from the JMU engage in multilingual, multifaceted dialogue.
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