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Thursday, December 8, 2016 8:45 am - 3:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

12th Germanic & Slavic Studies Conference

Program

8:45 – 9:00 Welcome

Part I: Healthy conversations…

Chair: Elizabeth Milne

9:00 – 9:30 Gesprächsbeendigung in medizinischen Beratungsgesprächen im Radio am Beispiel der Sendung Das Gesundheitsgespräch - Rachel Roudyani

9:30 – 10:00 Indexing priority of position: The response particle eben in German discourse - Emma Betz & Arnulf Deppermann

10:00-10:30 Wenn der Internist zum Psychotherapeuten wird: Eine Einzelfallstudie in Betrachtung der Sprachhandlungen aus der Psychotherapie - Judith Hallwachs

Grimm 2017 Lecturer Timothy Snyder gives a lecture earlier this year.
Monday, February 6, 2017 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Grimm Lecture 2017 - Timothy Snyder : The Holocaust as History and Warning

Timothy Snyder, author of the widely successful book Black Earth, believes we have misunderstood the Holocaust and the essential lessons it should have taught us. If the Holocaust was indeed, as Snyder’s carefully constructed argument will demonstrate, a result of ecological panic and state destruction, then our misunderstanding of it has endangered our own future. The world of the early twenty-first century resembles the world of the early twentieth more than we realize—and some of our own sensibilities are closer to those of Europeans of the 1930s than we might like to think.

Michael Ott, University of Heidelberg, gives a lecture
Friday, March 31, 2017 9:30 am - 9:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Narrated Inscriptions in Medieval Literature

This talk grows out of the University of Heidelberg Collaborative Research Centre 933 (CRC 933), in which faculty-led research groups from different disciplines examine script-bearing artefacts such as pillars, steles, portals, tombstones, potsherds, amulets, scrolls, papyri, and parchment codices in order to examine the spec

Drawing of Martin Luther by Lucas Cranach the Elder
Tuesday, April 4, 2017 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Luther Year 2017: Did Luther Invent High German?

In 1517, Martin Luther published the Ninety-Five Theses, and 2017, "The Luther Year," celebrates the 500th anniversary of this beginning of the Reformation. Luther’s German translation of the Bible has remained influential to this day; his hymns are still sung; and many still use his proverbs. But does all this make him the inventor of High German?

Thursday, April 20, 2017 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Deutsch im kolonialen Kontext (1885-1914)

Von ca. 1885 bis 1914 standen Gebiete in Afrika und dem pazifischen Raum unter deutscher Kolonialherrschaft. Der Vortrag gibt einen Überblick über die deutsche koloniale Sprachenpolitik und die Verbreitung und Rolle der deutschen Sprache im pazifischen Raum, u.a. in Schule und Verwaltung. Aus linguistischer Perspektive werden unterschiedliche Auswirkungen des daraus resultierenden Sprachkontakts dargestellt, wie z.B. lexikalische Sprachkontaktphänomene (Lehnwörter) und die Entstehung einer deutschbasierten Pidgin- und Kreolsprache.

German cover art for Daniel Kehlmann's book, "Measuring the World"
Tuesday, April 25, 2017 6:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Reading Group: Daniel Kehlmann's "Die Vermessung der Welt"/"Measuring the World"

The Waterloo Centre for German Studies is once again offering a reading group. This term, we'll be reading Daniel Kehlmann's Die Vermessung der Welt/Measuring the World.

Head shot of guest speaker, Nina Vyatkina of the University of Kansas
Friday, May 5, 2017 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Data-Driven Learning: Can and Should Language Learners Become Corpus Linguists?

ALERT: DUE TO FLIGHT CANCELLATION, THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED. IF YOU WERE HOPING TO COME, YOU CAN READ UP ON NINA VYATKINA'S RESEARCH ONLINE. WE KNOW; IT'S NOT THE SAME THING.

Monday, May 15, 2017 2:00 pm - Wednesday, May 17, 2017 3:00 pm CEST (GMT +02:00)

Negotiating Understanding: Responding to Formulations in Interaction

Conversation Analysis Research Workshop 

“Formulations” in spoken interaction propose an understanding of some state of affairs — of what another person has been telling or doing. This workshop examines a broad range of such sequences in which an understanding is formulated in conversation and then accepted or rejected. Such sequences allow us to trace how shared meaning and understanding is constructed in everyday interaction.