{"id":9470,"date":"2019-11-04T19:23:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T19:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=9470"},"modified":"2025-12-17T16:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:25:18","slug":"augsburgs-river-semester-program-gains-german-media-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2019\/11\/04\/augsburgs-river-semester-program-gains-german-media-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg&#8217;s River Semester program gains German media attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9471\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9471\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-31-at-3.25.38-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9471\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-31-at-3.25.38-PM-300x208.png\" alt=\"Students canoeing in two canoes on the river \" width=\"242\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-31-at-3.25.38-PM-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-31-at-3.25.38-PM-768x533.png 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-31-at-3.25.38-PM.png 861w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frankfurter Allgemeine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>German newspaper\u00a0Frankfurter Allgemeine recently published the article &#8220;Mississippi in the Anthropocene: Whispering Waters.&#8221; The article explains the purpose of the trip and highlights some of the projects being executed throughout this journey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The aim of this expedition is to start a conversation,&#8221; the article says. &#8220;And it is for this reason that artists, authors, political activists, and scientists with very different interests will be present alongside the most numerous group: students of the River Semester at Minnesota\u2019s Augsburg University. Their first mission: learning how to canoe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Related articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/27\/media-advisory-river-semester-students-to-canoe-for-100-days-with-german-scholars-artists\/\">Media Advisory: River Semester students to canoe for 100 days with German scholars, artists<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German newspaper\u00a0Frankfurter Allgemeine recently published the article &#8220;Mississippi in the Anthropocene: Whispering Waters.&#8221; The article explains the purpose of the trip and highlights some of the projects being executed throughout this journey. &#8220;The aim of this expedition is to start a conversation,&#8221; the article says. &#8220;And it is for this reason that artists, authors, political &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9470"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11999,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9470\/revisions\/11999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}