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09/20/2019 | Campus-Meldung

Three new DAAD guest lecturers in the winter semester

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is funding three new visiting lecturer positions at the University of Kassel for the start of the 2019/2020 winter semester. Prof. Dr. Karminska from Poland, Dr. Marinari from the USA and Prof. Dr. Dr. Gil Unday from Cuba will offer courses at the Institute of German Studies, the Department of History of Western Europe from the 18th to the 20th Century and the Department of Labor Studies. With Prof. Dr. Rebecca Ramos Padrón (Cuba, Department of Social Sciences) and Prof. Dr. Andrés Avila (Chile, Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences), there will be a total of five DAAD guest lecturers at the University of Kassel in 2019.

Image: From left to right: Thomas Koch; Stephanie Ash, Gustavus Adolphus College; private.
Prof. Dr. Eliza Karminska, Dr. Maddalena Marinari and Prof. Dr. Dr. Zuleiqui Gil Unday.

"These five grants - plus one extension - since 2017 represent a significant increase over previous years. They make an important contribution to internationalization at the University of Kassel. International DAAD guest lectureships promote the international and intercultural competencies of students and help to interest students in studying abroad," says Dr. Constanze Engel, staff member at the Department for Internationalization and International Cooperation. A major success, she says, has been the funding of all requested guest lectureships since 2017.

The DAAD Visiting Lecturer Program is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The goal of the program is to strengthen the internationalization of German universities and the international breadth of teaching.

 

Department 02 - Humanities and Cultural Studies
Subject: The Works and Impact of the Brothers Grimm and German as a Foreign and Second Language
Prof. Dr. Eliza Karminska

Prof. Dr. Eliza Karminska will be a DAAD visiting lecturer at the Institute of German Studies from 01.09.2019 to 31.08.2020. She will offer courses there at the Department of Works and Impact of the Brothers Grimm as well as in German as a Foreign and Second Language. Her focus is on Grimm research and, in particular, its translation and reception.

Karminska graduated in applied linguistics and was already a DAAD scholarship holder in the winter semester of 1995/1996 during a semester abroad at the then Gesamthochschule Kassel. In 2008, Karminska completed her habilitation and held the Chair of Applied Linguistics at the Institute of Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland) from 2009 to 2019. She has also been a university professor at the Faculty of Modern Philology there since 2012.

Eliza Karminska is also active as a translator of the Children's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm and of works by E.T.A. Hoffmann, among others. She is a co-founder of a German-Polish working group "Translation of Children's and Youth Literature" and runs a website about the Grimm fairy tales.

For further information: https://www.facebook.com/rumpelsztykpl/

 

Department 05 - Social Sciences
Subject: History of Western Europe from the 18th to the 20th century
Dr. Maddalena Marinari

Dr. Maddalena Marinari will hold three seminars as a DAAD Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at the Department of History of Western Europe from the 18th to the 20th Century from 01.10.2019 to 31.03.2020. Her seminars will focus on North America and Europe (including transatlantic relations). The courses will be of interest to the History of Britain and North America department as well as to students of English and a subfield of political science.

Marinari studied in Italy at the Department of Foreign Languages in Naples and received her PhD from the Department of History at the University of Kansas. Since 2015, Marinari has been at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota (USA) at the Department of History, first as Assistant Professor, and since 2019 as Associate Professor.

On December 13-14, 2019, a joint conference with the Department of History will be held on "Migrants and media: A long and intricate history of specific needs, uses, and effects" will be held.

 

Department 07 - Economics
Department: Labor Studies
Prof. Dr. Dr. Zuleiqui Gil Unday

From 01.10.2019 to 30.09.2020 Prof. Dr. Dr. Zuleiqui Gil Unday will be a DAAD guest lecturer at the Department of Labor Studies. During this time, she will hold four courses with a focus on sustainability. During her stay, among other things, a scientific cooperation with Christian Scheiding, PhD student at the Department of Labor Studies, and the collection of data in the field of "Sustainability-relevant behavior of employees in the public sector" is planned.  

Since 2002, Gil Unday has worked at the Universidad Sancti Spíritus in Cuba, where she has been a professor at the Center for Energy and Industrial Processes (CEEPI) since 2019. There, she is also the coordinator for environmental and sustainability strategies. She is also a member of the Advisory Board for Project Development and Sustainable Development in Rural Areas. She has already received numerous awards for her research work: in 2016 she received the National Award of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba.

Gil Unday's research includes environmental management systems for industrial processes and sustainable business. In the winter semester 2016/2017, Gil Unday started research activities on sustainability strategies in rural areas in Cuba, which she would like to continue and extend to rural areas in Germany.

 

Contact:

Dr. Constanze Engel
University of Kassel - Department Development Planning
Div. Internationalization and International Cooperations
International funding and cooperation programs
Tel: 0561 804-3086
Email: constanze.engel[at]uni-kassel[dot]de