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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.
Der Reisende cover - people walking in a train station - black and white photo
Sunday, November 14, 2021 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Der Reisende / The Passenger: a Novel, Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, trans. by Philip Boehm

Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany

Movie poster: Black girl wearing rust-coloured pea coat and matching shoes.
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Becoming Black: Film Screening with Director in Attendance

This event has passed please visit our website for a recording.

This event is part of an ongoing series, All Black Lives Matter, being run in cooperation with the Waterloo Centre for German Studies, The University of Toronto, and Africana Studies at Rutgers University-Camden.