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Tuesday, December 5, 2017 6:00 pm - 6:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

1st Annual Golden Boar Awards

This is the first annual (can it be annual if it's the first?) Golden Boar Awards. Far from boring, these short films were produced by students in German 101 and 102 and will be showcased this evening.

Cover art for "Almost Everything Very Fast," by Christopher Kloeble.
Thursday, November 30, 2017

Have a Say in our Reading Group's Next Meeting & Book Title

Every semester, the Waterloo Centre for German Studies's reading group meets on a weeknight evening to discuss a book that is somehow related to German-speaking culture. These have been our past titles:

Headshot of James M. Skidmore, Associate Professor of German, University of Waterloo
Thursday, November 30, 2017

WCGS Director Gives Talk on the History of Christmas Traditions

On Tuesday, November 28th, WCGS Director James Skidmore gave a talk on the history of Christmas traditions in German-speaking Europe. The event was connected with Kitchener's Christkindl Market, which opens next week, on Thursday, December 7th.

Black-and-white headshot of author Siegfried Krakauer smoking his pipe.
Monday, November 13, 2017 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Reading: Carl Skoggard Reads From his Translation of Siegfried Kracauer's "Georg"

Join us at Open Sesame, downtown Kitchener's distinctive gift shop/gallery/book store, for a reading by Carl Skoggard, translator of the novel Georg by Siegfried Kracauer.

Alice Kuzniar, UWaterloo Research Chair and WCGS Member
Monday, October 30, 2017

WCGS Member Alice Kuzniar to Receive Prize for Work on the History of Homeopathy

Alice Kuzniar, University Research Chair and Professor of German and English, will be awarded the Hans-Walz Research Prize at a champagne reception on 1 December at the Robert Bosch Haus in Stuttgart for her work on the history of homeopathy.  

Monday, December 11, 2017 9:45 am - 7:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

13th Germanic and Slavic Studies Conference

The program for the 13th annual Germanic & Slavic Studies Conference has been announced!

Conference Program

Part I: Who Are You to Talk to Me Like That?

Chair: Alexander Sullivan

9:45-11:00

Friday, October 13, 2017 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Zwischen Übungssprechen und dialogischem Lernen: Kommunikative Didaktik im „Sprachnotstandsgebiet A“

Die ersten Monate des Fremdsprachenunterrichts zu gestalten, stellt für Lehrende eine große Herausforderung dar. Mit dem Begriff des „Sprachnotstandsgebiets A“ hat Rösler (2013) all die Schwierigkeiten treffend charakterisiert, die sich gerade mit dieser Phase des Lernprozesses verbinden.

Cover art for original Winnetou publication, from 1893.
Tuesday, November 28, 2017 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Reading Group Fall 2017: Winnetou, by Karl May

Cover art for original Winnetou publication, from 1893.We're going back to the Wild West, German style, with Karl May's Winnetou I (1893) and the Brubacher House.

We'll begin the evening with a short tour of the historic, Mennonite home and then sit down for our book discussion in its stone-walled basement, next to a cozy fire.

Friday, September 29, 2017 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

New fables for a New World: Burkard Waldis’s Aesopian Fable Collection

In 1548 Burkard Waldis published his version of an Aesopian Fable collection. The title promises Aesopian fables “completely renewed” with a hundred “new fables” never published before. What the ‘new’ entails is never established by the author, but an analysis of the text shows that it challenges our modern understanding of the fable. Waldis presents tales that follow a typical fable format: short little stories with animals followed by a short sentence with a moral lesson.