Monday, September 16, 2019
Current graduate students
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
CfP: The Drama of Obedience, 1700-1900
CfP: The Drama of Obedience, 1700-1900 (University of Calgary, April 3-4, 2020)
Thursday, September 5, 2019
CfPs Interdisciplinary Symposium May 27-29, 2020
Weimar in 20/20 Der Glanz der leeren Mitte ~ The Glamour of the Empty Centre
CfPs Interdisciplinary Symposium May 27-29, 2020
King’s University College at Western University invites abstract submissions for an interdisciplinary symposium aimed at researchers engaged in the political, cultural, and social legacies of the Weimar Republic.
Wednesday, November 20, 2019 7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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In the Children's Best Interests: Unaccompanied Refugee Children in Germany, 1945-1952
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.
Tuesday, September 17, 2019 3:00 pm
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3:00 pm
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“What makes me a Christian to you, makes you a Jew to me”
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.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 4:00 pm
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4:00 pm
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Corpora of spoken German: ‘Hidden treasures’ and their potential uses
WCGS welcomes Dr. Silke Reineke of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) on Tuesday, October 8th, 2019.
Tuesday, November 5, 2019 7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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The Buried Raging Sermons of the Warsaw Ghetto Rabbi
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.
Friday, July 19, 2019
CfP: The Pasts and Futures of Queer German Studies
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Organizers: Dr. Kyle Frackman and Dr. Ervin Malakaj
Dates: April 24–26, 2020
This symposium seeks to build on this exciting and extensive archive of scholarship on queer German studies by bringing together researchers at different stages of their academic careers and from different institutions to share their current research. While dedicated to contemporary approaches to queer German studies, the symposium additionally aims to facilitate discussion about the disciplinary history of queer German studies. Which developments shaped contemporary queer German studies and what futures lie ahead of it?
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
CFP Edited Volume: Transverse Disciplines
Transverse Disciplines:
Working across and beyond Academic Communities
Edited by: Simone Pfleger (University of Alberta) and Carrie Smith (University of Alberta)
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Annual Report, 2018-2019
WCGS has published its annual year in review, check it out here.