Events

Gareth Stedman Jones, FBA - When would Capitalism end?

In recognition of Karl Marx's 200th birthday, WCGS is honoured to welcome distinguished Professor Gareth Stedman Jones for the Grimm Lecture 2018.

Drew Hayden Taylor's "Searching for Winnetou"

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.

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"

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

Hear Loyola University professor Alice Weinreb explain how food and hunger are used as instruments of power.

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

Join WCGS in Stratford Friday, July 12, 2019 for Nathan the Wise, the 18th-century play by German playwright G.E. Lessing

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.

WCGS welcomes Dr. Silke Reineke of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) on Tuesday, October 8th, 2019.

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Grimm Lecture 2018

Gareth Stedman Jones, FBA - When would Capitalism end?

Documentary Screening: Searching for Winnetou

Drew Hayden Taylor's "Searching for Winnetou"

Fall 2018 WCGS Reading Group

Choose Your Own German Book! - Thursday, November 29 7-9pm

Escape from the Nazis: The Dutch-Paris Resistance Line

Humans, Animals, and Nazis on Display: The Berlin Zoo in German History

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

An Evening with Author Benedict Wells

Nathan the Wise at the Stratford Theatre Festival

“What makes me a Christian to you, makes you a Jew to me”

Corpora of spoken German: ‘Hidden treasures’ and their potential uses