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Berlin’s name change to Kitchener was not just a simple vote. Tumultuous times divided the otherwise peaceful city into two groups, reflecting the Great War that had erupted in Europe two years prior and, in the end, made the name change in 1916 Berlin/Kitchener anything but simple.

Learn how a city was pushed to the edge during the First World War - to the point of changing its name from Berlin to Kitchener through a controversial and high-tension referendum.

We are seeing a push towards offering more courses online because they can provide students with new forms of social and learning interaction, widen their access to education, and offer an indi­vidualized learning experience in large classes.

German author and entrepreneur Marc Degens will be reading from his work in both German and English:

Michael Götting is an author, journalist and curator. His novel Contrapunctus (Counterpoint) was published in September 2015.

As digital gaming has increased in popularity and become a global practice, computer-assisted language learning (CALL) researchers and second and foreign language (L2) educators have begun reconsidering games as potential L2 teaching and learning (L2TL) resources.

Digging up the Doll: Inherited Memories of the Removal of German Nationals From Eastern Europe

A lecture by Linda Warley, University of Waterloo

Homeopathy is a controversial form of alternative medicine. Some consider it a miracle, others a sham.

But where did it all start?

(En) gendering Precarity

Maria Speth is an award-winning director who is often associated with the "Berlin school" of German filmmaking.  As part of her visit to the University of Waterloo, sponsored by the Waterloo Centre for German Studies, three of her most important films will be shown in April.

Daniela Wolff published her first novel, Kurzsturz (Shortfall), in 2014. A resident of Canada since 2010, she lives and writes in Waterloo Region.