7th annual Northern Illinois College German Immersion Day
Frick Center, 190 S Prospect Ave, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Directions: http://bit.ly/FrickCenterDirections
The immersion day is conceived as an extension of the Bauhaus Symposium and will include workshops dealing with German immigrants, German-American history, German architecture, and German ideas, products, music, food, films, and significant sites in Chicagoland and the USA.
Highlights will include the interactive exploration of the newly renovated McCormick House by Mies van der Rohe with the exhibit “The Whole World a Bauhaus” at the Elmhurst Art Institute, and the lecture at 1:30 Bauhaus Translated: Transcultural Encounters with the Avant-garde school by Dr. Regina Bittner.
Sponsors and partners include: Deutschlandjahr 2018/2019, Elmhurst College, Northwestern University, Harper College, Northern Illinois University, University of Chicago, College of DuPage, the Northern Illinois AATG, German Consulate Chicago, and the Goethe-Institut Chicago.
Tentative Schedule:
8:30 am – 9:00 am Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00 am – 9:30 am Timeline & Posters
9:30 am – 10:30 am Workshop Session I
10:45 am – 11:45 am Workshop Session II
12:00 pm – 12:45 pm German Lunch / German Tour through Elmhurst Campus
12:45 pm – 1:30 pm. German Tour through Elmhurst Campus / German Lunch
13:30 pm – 15:00 pm Presentation at Elmhurst Art Institut: Transcultural Encounters with the Avant-Garde School von Dr. Regina Bittner
15:00 – 16:00 Workshop Session III
16:30 – 17:00 Closing Festivities
Registration Fee: $15
Please register by March 15, 2019! Here is the registration link:
http://bit.ly/CollegeGermanImmersionDay2019
Questions? Write to noilaatgcollegeimmersion@gmail.com!
Organizers and Presenters and Workshop Leaders:
Katharina Barbe (kbarbe@niu.edu), Colin Benert (cbenert@uchicago.edu),Jessamine Cooke-Plagwitz (jpcooke@niu.edu), Karina Duncker-Hoffmann (kdunckerhoffmann@luc.edu), Anna Hog (ahog@sd308.edu), Kim Jaeger (kjaeger@harpercollege.edu), Heidi Lechner (heidi.lechner@d128.org), Miglena Nikolova (nikolovam@cod.edu), Rob Ryder (rob.ryder@northwestern.edu,) Christine Summers (ankes@elmhurst.edu), Barbara Thoens-Masghati (thoens@cod.edu), Ingrid Zeller (izeller@northwestern.edu)