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Tuesday, May 11, 2021 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Collaborative Works-in-Progress: Rediscovering Alexander Moritz Frey

Paola Mayer + Rüdiger Müller

Our talk will focus on our forthcoming edition of Frey's short fiction and on our plan for an article on his tale, "Der Mensch." We will address such questions as: Who was Alexander Moritz Frey? What did his oeuvre look like? How does one create an anthology that will put him back on the literary map? What does a Robinsonade written in 1940 by an exile author look like?

Sunday, August 29, 2021 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

WCGS Reading Group: A Complicated Kindness/Ein komplizierter Akt der Liebe, by Miriam Toews, translation by Christiane Buchner

Canada is the guest of honour at the 2021 Frankfurt Book Fair. In that spirit, the Waterloo Centre for German Studies has chosen a Canadian author in German translation and is offering this meeting on a Sunday to make it more convenient for fellow readers from Germany to join us. We'll be reading A Complicated Kindness/Ein komplizierter Akt der Liebe, by Miriam Toews, translation by Christiane Buchner.

Friday, October 8, 2021 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT (GMT -07:00)

"Winnetou, White Innocence, and Settler Time," by Dr. Maureen Gallagher

Proclaiming “every generation has its Winnetou,” German network RTL ushered in the return of Winnetou to German television with a big-budget film trilogy, Winnetou–Der Mythos Lebt.