Future graduate students

Poster: Grimm Lecture 2010 Lecture Poster (PDF)

Inaugural Jacob-and-Wilhelm Grimm Lecture 2010 given by Professor David Blackbourn at the University of Waterloo on November 18, 2010.

Andrea Strutz (University of Graz, Austria) gave an informative lecture on Austrian Immigration to Canada - 1938 to 1970 on September 16^th 2011.

Poster: Guttenberg to Google Street View Poster (PDF)

Christophe Fricker, Craig-Kade writer in residence at Rutger University, held an entertaining and informative lecture on Guttenberg to Google Street View – Germany today as seen by its Cartoonists, on October 4^th 2011.

Poster: Affen, Wölfe und Tanzbären Lecture Poster (PDF)

On October 25th, Regine Zeller (University of Mannheim) gave an 'animalistic' lecture on animal imagery in Thomas Mann's early works.

Poster: Grimm 2011 Lecture Poster (PDF)

On November 10th, the annual Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm Lecture 2011 on Citizenship in Germany: From Mono-Cultural to Multi-Cultural Society was given by the German political scientist Christiane Lembke.

Poster: On the Interactional Import of Self-Repair in the Courtroom Poster (PDF)

On Friday, November 25, 2011, Tanya Romaniuk and Susan Ehrlich from York University held an informative talk entitled On the Interactional Import of Self-Repair in the Courtroom. 

Poster: Faust in the Box Poster (PDF)

Poster: Zukunft der deutschen Sprache Poster (PDF)

In his lecture and video presentation held on September 10^th 2012, Manfred Schröder (Verein Deutsche Sprache) made a passionate plea for the future of the German language.

Poster: Classicism and Secular Humanism Poster (PDF)

On September 17^th 2012, Jane K. Brown gave an inspiring lecture on Classicism and Secular Humanism: The Sanctification of Die Zauberflöte in Goethe’s Novelle.

Poster: Salvaging History Poster (PDF)

Alexander Freund gave an informative lecture on “Salvaging History: Can We Learn Anything from (Really Bad) 1970s Oral History Interviews?” on September 21^st2012.

Alexander Freund is the holder of the Chair of German-Canadian studies and co-director of the Oral History Centre at the University of Winnipeg.