About

Alamanya: Transnational German Studies Workshop became a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop in 2011, and was formally known as Alamanya: Turkish-German and German Minority Workshop (2001-2011). After a series of meetings and discussions, Alamanya decided to change its name in order to reflect the workshop’s engagement with transnationalism in the German sphere, including issues related to translation, migration, colonialism, and exile. 

Transnational German Studies emphasizes the diversity of artistic expressions in communities marked by migration and exile and calls for an interdisciplinary approach that encourages academic collaboration at the nexus of nation, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and religion.

Alamanya is excited about its upcoming program, which will focus on graduate student paper workshops, reading relevant scholarship and primary literatures, photography showings or film screenings, invited speakers whose research relates to the groups key themes of translation, migration, colonialism, or exile in Germany and German Studies. 

Any exact event details will be populated on the Events page, as they are scheduled.

If you are interested in attending or co-sponsoring an event, do not hesitate to reach out to the graduate student coordinators! We have co-sponsored events with many departments and groups within the University of Michigan, as well as will other institutions like King's College, Michigan State University, Duke, the University of North Carolina, and U-Mass Amherst.

2022-2023 Coordinators: 

Graduate Student Coordinators:

Luci Cook (they/them), Germanic Languages & Literatures

Laura Stahl (she/her), Germanic Languages & Literatures

Sarah Lime (she/her) Germanic Languages  & Literatures

Elizabeth Sokol (Germanic Languages & Literatures) 

Faculty Coordinator:

Jon Cho-Polizzi  (he/him) Germanic Languages & Literatures