German Department at Pomona College

12/15/2024

https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=nx-s1-5215946:nx-s1-5291524-1

Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR One | 3:53

07/28/2022

04/03/2022

http://wendemuseum.org/programs/medium-message-flags-and-banners

Originally used to identify soldiers in battle and ships in international waters, flags have represented large geographic territories since the rise of the nation-state beginning in the late eighteenth century. Like monuments and national anthems, they intend to create a sense of identity based on a...

03/14/2022

https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/preparing-for-defeat/
Just hope he is not as wrong about this as we was about the end of history...

I’m writing this from Skopje, North Macedonia, where I’ve been for the last week teaching one of our Leadership Academy for Development courses. Following the Ukraine war is no different here in terms of available information, except that I’m in an adjacent time zone, and the fact

01/12/2022

Herzlich willkommen zum Frühlingssemester 2022!

01/05/2022

https://mymodernmet.com/animated-subway-maps/?utm_source=facebook&utm_term=first&utm_content=art&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=recycle&fbclid=IwAR00vNTOcq-FmucU5_aamsINex7snvUW07_vozWaJ8FpFGhhlgs9UYtlt3I

What you see is not necessarily what you get 🙂

Have you ever wondered just how true-to-life the world's many metro and subway maps actually are? These gifs reveal how accurate (and different) they are.

11/27/2021

Did you know this???
https://www.derbund.ch/tina-turner-erhaelt-ehrendoktortitel-der-universitaet-bern-374522872382
The best thing my Alma Mater has done recently? - Und habt irh gewusst, dass Tina Schweizer Bürgerin ist? - ich nicht...

Die Sängerin lebt seit über 20 Jahren in der Schweiz und wird am «Dies academicus» für ihr «einzigartiges musikalisch-künstlerisches Lebenswerk» geehrt.

11/02/2021

DAAD hat wieder RISE Stipendien! (Research Internships in Scince and Engineering). Bewerbungstermin: bald!!!

RISE Germany is a summer internship program for undergraduate students from the United States, Canada and the UK in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, earth sciences and engineering.