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by Julia Ann Easley | September 17, 2023

The University of California, Davis, rose to tie for sixth place among the nation’s top public universities in rankings published today (Sept. 17) by U.S. News & World Report.

The 2024 Best Colleges rankings moved UC Davis up four places from last year among public universities and up 10 places to tie for No. 28 among all national universities.

Welcome to Fall 2023!  Sproul hall and the undergrad advising team are looking forward to the new academic year and welcoming you back.  Please use the below link to make an advising appointment or see the flyer for our virtual front desk (drop-in) advising.

Panel Discussion | April 14 | 12-1:30 p.m. |  Zoom

Speaker:  Tanja Maljartschuk, Author

Event Symposium: Recovering Memory and Culture After the Holocaust:
UC Davis Holocaust Scholars on "Recovered Voices"

Tuesday, April 11 | 4:00-5:30pm

The German & Russian Colloquium Series is proud to present:

“Fixing Kant’s Monstrosity: Schopenhauer on the Intuitive Understanding”

Alejandro Sandoval, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UC Davis

March 6, 3:00 pm, 912 Sproul

Abstract:

The Excellence in Teaching of Study Abroad Award recognizes UC Davis instructors of the Academic Senate and Academic Federation who go above and beyond in designing and teaching UC Davis Study Abroad programs. The recipients of this year’s award are Jaimey Fisher and David Masiel. 

Continuing Lecturer and Language Program Coordinator, Kirsten Harjes, is curating a film series at the Crocker art museum in Sacramento this winter and spring, to accompany the exhibition A Graphic Art: German Expressionist Prints 

Feb. 16: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Mar. 16:  The Blue Angel 

April 20:  Girls in Uniform

https://my.crockerart.org/germanexpressionism/853

Lecture | December 2 | 12-1:30 p.m. |  Zoom

Speaker:  Barbara Yelin, Graphic Novelist

Moderator:  Brett E. Sterling, Associate Professor of German in the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Arkansas

Register for this zoom event here: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsd-yprTMiHtdOCmjyfVAM3q7KRunc4PRr

Lecture | October 17 | 12-1:30 p.m. |  Zoom

Speaker:  Deniz Utlu, Author

Moderators:  Sultan Doughan, Dr Thomas Zand visiting assistant professor of Holocaust pedagogy and antisemitism studies at Clark University; Deniz Göktürk, Professor in the Department of German at UC Berkeley

Tom Smits is an Associate Professor in English and German Foreign Language Teaching and German Variational Linguistics at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). In 2021, he was appointed as Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University (South Africa) after a successful nomination by the Faculty of Education in recognition of his standing in the field of multilingualism and multiculturalism in education.