Workshops
Each participant will have the opportunity to participate in three workshops, including such interesting topics as "FRIEND OR FOE? GERMANY IN SOVIET PROPAGANDA," " VÖLKERBALL: German dodgeball" and "KAISERSCHMARRN: making a delicious Austrian pancake."
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Speaker: Dan Hamilton
Excerpt from About page at Concordia Language Villages
Dan Karl Hamilton is the dean of Waldsee, the German Language Village, during the second half of the summer. He is also dean of Helvetia Swiss Week. He has been on staff at Concordia Language Villages since 1972 and was a villager for four years. He is fluent in German and has studied French, Russian and Spanish.
Hamilton earned his bachelor's degree in foreign service from Georgetown University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Hamilton now serves as the Richard von Weizsäcker professor and director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at SAIS and as executive director of the American Consortium on European Union Studies. He is the host of The Washington Post/Newsweek International's global online discussion Next Europe.
Schedule of Events:
Friday: 16:00 - 18:00: Registration
18:00 - 19:00: Dinner
19:00 - 19:10: Welcome
19:10 - 19:30: Speaker
19:35 - 20:35: "Battle of the Brains"
20:45 - 22:30: Dance
Saturday: 8:30 - 8:55: Registration
9:00 - 9:30: Speaker
9:45 - 10:45: Workshop 1
10:50 - 11:50: Workshop 2
12:00 - 1:00: Lunch
12:30 - 13:00: Delegates' Meeting
13:05 - 14:05: Workshop 3
14:15 - 15:30: "Battle of the Brains", Awards, Closing