Shanghai – It’s a double honor for Professor Laura Auteri, elected President of the Internationale Vereinigung für Germanistik – International Association of German Studies (IVG) for 2015-2020. Auteri was elected at the Congress held in Shanghai. The IVG, founded in 1951 and affiliated to UNESCO, is an association that now has thousands of members from more than 60 countries. Its purpose, in the field of German studies (understood as language, culture and literature in Germany, as well as Yiddish languages and cultures and literatures of the North Europe), is to promote international cooperation and the organization of conferences, relations between national associations, support for scientific research, training and study. Auteri is the first Italian at the helm of the IVG, and the first woman to chair the Association. (9colonne)
