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Information Session: Studying at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Interested in a unique academic and cultural experience? Join our info session to learn about exchange opportunities at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa.
Where? Universität Koblenz, Raum F 312
When? 27 June 2025, 3pm

Ms Kira Schmidt is a lecturer at UWC and will share insights about:
-> The University of the Western Cape
-> Study Programs & Research Centres at UWC’s Faculty of Arts & Humanties
-> Campus Life & Student Support
-> Cultural experiences in Cape Town
UWC is home to a diverse, thriving academic community. Strategic initiatives, including international collaborations, have substantially transformed UWC’s history as an institution of struggle under oppression during apartheid. Don’t miss this chance to ask questions about studying at one of South Africa’s most dynamic universities!
We look forward to seeing you!

Next KL-Meeting
2 July 2025, 12.15 (F 144)

Next Meeting of the Leitungskollegium (LeiKo):
t.b.d.

Important Information – Exams

Exams in M 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 

Professor Dr. Michael Meyer will still read your term papers and take your oral exams if you attended one of his courses. Exams based on courses taken with PD Dr. Simone Broders, Dr. Jody Skinner and Maria Mothes will be graded by other examiners, depending on the topic area. 

Exams in M 4.1 (Mothes)

If you have taken the M4.1 course with Maria Mothes and have either not yet taken the M4 examination in the B.Ed. English or have not passed it yet, please contact Dr. Sarah Schäfer-Althaus (salthaus@uni-koblenz.de), who will review the essays.

Exams in M 4.2 (courses up until winter term 2023/2024), new examiner

If you have taken the M4.2 course in previous semesters with the lecturers Pleyer, Busch, Lensch or Axer and have either not yet taken the M4 examination in the B.Ed. English or have not yet passed it, please contact JProf Dr. Andreas Weilinghoff (weilinghoff@uni-koblenz.de), who will review the essays. If you have any questions, please contact the module coordinator for M4, Dr. Sarah Schäfer-Althaus (salthaus@uni-koblenz.de) at any time.

New Publications

Maruo-Schröder, Nicole, Sarah Schäfer-Althaus, and Uta Schaffers, eds. Traveling Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice. London: Routledge, 2024.

Link to download for members of our university: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003331803/traveling-bodies-nicole-maruo-schr%C3%B6der-sarah-sch%C3%A4fer-althaus-uta-schaffers

Sarah Buschfeld, Patricia Ronan, Theresa Neumaier, Andreas Weilinghoff and Lisa Westermeyer, eds. Crossing Boundaries through Corpora – Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024.

Soon available in our library.

Announcements

November 2025

International Conference: "Exploring Bodies and Corporeality in Travel Writing"
Conference organizers: Prof. Dr. Nicole Maruo-Schröder & Prof. Dr. Uta Schaffers
When: November 25-26, 2025
Where: Campus

The conference will take place as part of the founding of the research unit Körper · Reise · Literatur / Body · Travel · Literature at the University of Koblenz. We invite papers that address the topic of the body and corporeality in travel writing. The focus should be on texts that are based on actual journeys and therefore feature an inscribed habitus of experience and 'authenticity'. For more information, please click here.