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Documentary Screening: Searching for Winnetou
Fall 2018 WCGS Reading Group
Choose Your Own German Book! - Thursday, November 29 7-9pm
Another 'choose your own adventure' Reading Group! Instead of the Centre stipulating the book, we're leaving it up to you! So, read whatever German-related book you'd like, be it written by a German/Swiss/Austria author in whatever language you can easily read, or a novel that really interests you that's been translated into German, and bring it along to the meeting.
Escape from the Nazis: The Dutch-Paris Resistance Line
The first UW History Department's Speaker Series event of 2019 is here! Come hear Dr. Megan Koreman discuss her book "The Escape Line: how the Ordinary Heroes of Dutch-Paris Resisted the Nazi occupation of Western Europe"
Humans, Animals, and Nazis on Display: The Berlin Zoo in German History
WCGS welcomes one and all to a talk by UW History professor Dr. Gary Bruce about his new book Through the Lion Gate: A History of the Berlin Zoo.
Modern Hungers: Food and German Identity from the Third Reich to the Berlin Wall and Beyond
Modern Hungers: Food and German Identity from the Third Reich to the Berlin Wall and Beyond
Hear Loyola University professor Alice Weinreb explain how food and hunger are used as instruments of power.
An Evening with Author Benedict Wells
German-Swiss author Benedict Wells has been making a name for himself with novels such as Becks letzter Sommer from 2008 (also a film starring Christian Ulmen) and Vom Ende der Einsamkeit from 2016
Nathan the Wise at the Stratford Theatre Festival
Join WCGS in Stratford Friday, July 12, 2019 for Nathan the Wise, the 18th-century play by German playwright G.E. Lessing
“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.
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.