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Grimm Lecture Logo
Thursday, September 20, 2018 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Grimm Lecture 2018

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
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Documentary Screening: Searching for Winnetou

Drew Hayden Taylor's "Searching for Winnetou"

Thursday, November 29, 2018 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

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 Line Cover
Tuesday, February 5, 2019 7:11 pm - 7:11 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

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"

Modern Hungers
Thursday, March 28, 2019 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

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.

Birgit Schreyer Duarte
Tuesday, September 17, 2019 3:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

“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.