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Lafayette’s Max Kade Center for German Studies will host the annual spring conference of the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German Saturday.
College, university, and high school instructors will attend morning sessions on pedagogy, curricula, and national standards in foreign languages at the Kade Center, Pardee Hall room 429.
In the afternoon, Mary Toulouse, director of Lafayette’s Multimedia Resource Center, will give a presentation on incorporating I-movie technology in the classroom. Lafayette students have used it to produce short skits and plays that are acted in a foreign language, filmed with a camcorder, and digitized. Toulouse also has introduced a program to a class that is using it to create subtitles in a French film from their dialogue translations.
Edward McDonald, professor of foreign languages and literatures, is serving as chairman of conference, which will run 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
“We get together and keep rubbing elbows all of the time,” he says. “It’s important – you don’t want to work in a vacuum.”
In February, the Max Kade Center hosted ambassador Hans Winkler, head of Austria’s Human Rights Office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who gave a public lecture and met with students and faculty.
Last semester, Carlotta von Maltzan, president of the German Association of Southern Africa, served as the Humanities Fellow in the department of foreign languages and literatures, teaching a First-Year Seminar and an upper-level German class that examined the African image in German literature. She attended weekly German discussions, a social on the German floor in Keefe Hall, and McKelvy House Scholars discussions by two advanced German students. In addition to participating in a panel discussion with playwright Wole Soyinka, she gave lectures on South Africa in courses taught by John McCartney, associate professor of government and law; Katalin Fabian, assistant professor of government and law; and Rado Pribic, Edwin Oliver Williams Professor of Languages and chair of the international affairs program.
Lafayette dedicated its new technologically advanced headquarters for the study of German last year. Based in Pardee Hall room 429, the Max Kade Center for German Studies was established through a $65,000 grant from the Max Kade Foundation, which also awarded $5,000 for a German library and a visiting scholar, Herbert Herzmann, professor and head of German at University College Dublin in Ireland.