Jan 21

LDC Works-in-Progress Series with Prof. Juliane Schicker & Celia Vander Ploeg Fallon '25, and Prof. Victoria Thorstensson

Tue, January 21, 2025 • 12:00pm - 1:00pm (1h) • LDC104

LDC Works-In-Progress Series:

January 21st, 2025

LDC104
12:00PM

Bring your lunch and join us for the first lectures of the LDC Works-In-Progress Series! Presenting their in-progress work and research will be Juliane Schicker with student Celia Vander Ploeg Fallon and Victoria Thorstensson.


The Preschool-Immersion Project: Providing Pedagogical Strategies for Teachers, Administrators, and Parents

Juliane Schicker
Associate Professor of German
Celia Vander Ploeg Fallon '25

 

Discourses on National Identity in Imperial Russian Policy and Conservative Fiction

Victoria Thorstensson
Lecturer in Russian

Sponsors: French & Francophone Studies, German and Russian, Spanish, and the Language Center


One part of Juliane Schicker's interdisciplinary research focuses on East German music, architecture, and the fine arts during the 1970s and 1980s with an eye to questions of artistic expressions of social change, musical engagement with socio-political issues, the reception history of art in the GDR, and issues of gender and class. She also has expertise in classroom practices, especially when it comes to social justice aspects and early language acquisition in the immersion setting. She has published, among other things, about works of the band Rammstein, contemporary HipHop artists, Gustav Mahler, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, and didactical approaches to teaching German. More on Juliane Schicker's bio.

Celia Vander Ploeg Fallon '25 is pursuing a major in German at Carleton. Her research interests include language acquisition, childhood education, and contemporary science fiction from the German speaking world. She has studied abroad in Berlin and Vienna and is currently working on a research project about Emma Braslavsky’s short story “Ich bin dein Mensch.” She just published a paper, titled “You’ve Got a Friend in Me: Negotiating Difference and Modes of Contact in Fatih Akın’s Auf der anderen Seite” in Augenblick, the annual student-run academic journal published by the German Studies program at The University of British Columbia.

Victoria Thorstensson's primary research specialty is the 19th-century Russian polemical novel. She writes on Dostoevsky, Leskov, the nihilist countercultural movement, Russian revolutionary intelligentsia, the intersections of literature and science, and on realism. Currently, she is working on a book-length study of Russian conservative novelist Boleslav Markevich. She also published translations and developed materials on teaching Russian as a foreign language. More on Victoria Thorstensson's bio.

LDC Work-in-Progress Series sponsored by French & Francophone Studies, German and Russian, Spanish, and the Language Center

Event Summary

LDC Works-in-Progress Series with Prof. Juliane Schicker & Celia Vander Ploeg Fallon '25, and Prof. Victoria Thorstensson
  • Intended For: General Public, Students, Faculty, Staff, Emeriti, Alums
  • Categories: Lecture/Panel

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