After a year of developing relationships, visiting organizations on site, securing funding, and developing supporting structures and materials, our first cohort of students are on their way to Germany’s green capital to take up their placements with futurGenerator Toronto - Freiburg... Read More »
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futurGenerator: Forging Ahead With A New Program in Berlin
With the first cohort of students en route to Freiburg, one of Europe’s greenest cities, the iPRAKTIKUM team is already gearing up for the launch in summer 2020 of a second global internship pivot located in the German capital: futurGenerator Toronto-Berlin... Read More »
ecoHub Freiburg/iPRAKTIKUM Intern Savannah Bein Receives School of Cities Fellowship
German Minor Savannah Bein has secured a fellowship from the School of Cities to lead an ‘Urban Sustainability Working Group’ within the newly formed School of Cities Student Academy... Read More »
Former German Department Chair Jim Retallack wins major prize for his book on Saxony
Congratulations to James Retallack who has been awarded the Central European History Society’s Hans Rosenberg Book Prize for his 2017 book, Red Saxony: Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918. Read More »
Willi Goetschel publishes new book on Heine and Critical Theory
Heinrich Heine's role in the formation of Critical Theory has been systematically overlooked in the course of the successful appropriation of his thought by Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and the legacy they left, in particular for Adorno, Benjamin and the Frankfurt School. This book examines the critical connections that led Adorno to call for a “reappraisal” of Heine in a 1948 essay that, published posthumously, remains under-examined... Read More »
Down to Earth – Sustainable Sourcing Initiative in the German Department
As a part of our commitment to reducing our environmental footprint and promoting sustainable practices, the Department has joined Karma, a member-owned, democratically run co-operative that has been in operation since 1972... Read More »
Side by Side Writing: Fridays 10:30am – 1:30pm
Side-by-side writing works as follows: It is not a writing feedback group. It’s just a way to make writing progress while hanging out with friends and colleagues (this is also known as: zwei Fliegen auf einen Streich). Read More »
iPRAKTIKUM – Legal Research and Analysis: Remote Internship with MotionLab.Berlin on future mobility
MotionLab began with the simple idea to build a bicycle. What emerged was Europe’s first prototyping space for hardware in mobility... Read More »
iPRAKTIKUM – Business Development & Data Analysis: Remote Internship with MotionLab.Berlin on future mobility
MotionLab began with the simple idea to build a bicycle. What emerged was Europe’s first prototyping space for hardware in mobility... Read More »
iPRAKTIKUM – Internship at aiforia (Freiburg, Germany) 2019
aiforia is committed to promoting the responsible use of resources and sustainable practices. We develop, coordinate and implement a variety of local and international projects and organize seminars and educational programs. As an official partner of “Green City Freiburg”... Read More »