Alumni

This fall, we’ll be reading

Benedict Wells: Vom Ende der Einsamkeit / The End of Loneliness, trans. Charlotte Collins
 

If you want to learn more about the book here are some articles from the Guardian and Süddeutsche:

WCGS invites one and all to a talk by Lynne Taylor, University of Waterloo professor of History. Dr. Taylor will discuss her latest book, In the Children's Best Interests: Unaccompanied Refugee Children in Germany, 1945-1952.

Originally from Germany, Dr. Schreyer Duarte has made a name for herself as a dramaturg in Toronto while also transitioning into directing in the past ten years.

WCGS welcomes Dr. Silke Reineke of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) on Tuesday, October 8th, 2019.

Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto are led to a deportation point sometime between April 19 and May 16, 1943 (Wikimedia Commons )

Join WCGS as professor James Diamond, Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Waterloo, gives his talk The Buried Raging Sermons of the Warsaw Ghetto Rabbi.
 

This summer, we’ll be reading

Heike Geißler: Saisonarbeit / Seasonal Associate, trans. Katy Derbyshire