Pop-Cultural Relations Between Germany and the U.S.: The Simpsons, Family Guy and Music as a Learning Experience
11:00 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

This presentation will feature pop culture and pop icons that are present in both the United States and Germany. The focus will be on how certain TV series and popular music represent culture, language and society and why they are important. Mr. Ganz will discuss not only what is popular in Germany, but also the role of pop culture in the language-learning experience as it applies to Germans learning English and learners of German as a second language.

Alexander Ganz is a graduate assistant in the German program in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. A native German, he spent over two years in the United States prior to his graduate studies working as an au pair and a designer in an advertising agency. He received a B.A.-equivalent in American Studies and Communication at the University of Leipzig in Germany