Image: Faculty members from the Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies are in Germany this week for the Berlin Seminar in Transnational European Studies. The seminar brings together scholars, policy experts and journalists to discuss issued related to contemporary Europe. Participants include GSS faculty members Brigitte Rossbacher, Associate Professor of German, and Alex (Sasha) Spektor, Assistant Professor of Russian. For more informationn about the seminar, please see the May 23 issue of the Franklin Chronicles.