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Department members Grit Liebscher and Barbara Schmenk have both recently published new books.

Researchers at the Waterloo Centre for German Studies would like to talk to members of the German-Canadian community for a book and archive project that will both document and reveal the connections between personal life stories and public history.

The University of Waterloo is very happy to award Professor Eric Rentschler of Harvard University an honorary Doctor of Letters at its Fall 2013 Convocation.

Congratulations! Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

Professor Emma Betz has received a LITE Seed Grant for her project entitled Developing communication and transcultural skills: Steps to enhance first-year language learning and graduate teacher training at UW.

PhD candidate Belinda Kleinhans has successfully defended her dissertation Mit Texttieren jenseits der Grenze des Schweigens sprechen.

From May 2nd to May 5th, 2013, the Austrian Studies Association held their annual conference at the University of Waterloo/St. Paul’s Campus with the generous support of the Faculty of Arts at UW, the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, the Waterloo Centre for German Studies, Retail Services UW, the Austrian Studies Association, the Austrian Cultural Forum, Austrian Embassy (Ottawa), and the Austrian Cultural Forum (New York).

Prof. Na'ama Rokam from the University of Chicago, to talk about her current research project on "Celan's Orientation Between the Languages”. This interdisciplinary project combines the study of linguistics and literature to trace the stories of writers who left Germany during World War II and returned after 1945.

Marc W. Roche, Professor of German Language and Literature and Concurrent Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, addressed a large audience on the topic of "History and Forms of Beautiful Ugliness."

Sandra Beck, guest lecturer from the University of Mannheim, gave a talk on Leander Scholz’s RAF-novel Rosenfest. Her talk centred on explaining how the novel deconstructs the collective memorz of the RAF.

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Professors Liebscher and Schmenk publish new books

Research links personal and public histories of German-Canadians

Scholar of German film to receive honorary doctorate

First graduating class from Joint MA program

Lite Seed Grant Winner

Belinda Kleinhans defends her PhD dissertation

Austrian Studies Association 2013 conference

Na'ama Rokam lecture

Marc Roche lecture

Sandra Beck lecture