Poster: Zukunft der deutschen Sprache Poster (PDF)
In his lecture and video presentation held on September 10th 2012, Manfred Schröder (Verein Deutsche Sprache) made a passionate plea for the future of the German language.
Poster: Voltaire & Frederick: A Life in Letters Poster (PDF)
On November 10th, the German Stage visited the University of Waterloo staging their play Voltaire & Frederick: A Life in Letters.
Poster: Marat-Sade-Bohnice Poster (PDF)
Poster: Colloquium 2013 Language Learning Poster (PDF)
On Monday, 1 April 2013 the Waterloo Colloquium on Language Learning and Teaching took place in Hagey Hall at the University of Waterloo.
The 2013 Jakob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm Lecture will be given by Harvard film scholar Eric Rentschler. Professor Rentschler, who will also be receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo for his leading scholarship in film studies, will be speaking on the film The Lives of Others / Das Leben der Anderen, winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2007.
Revealing a total of 190 rare photographs, newspaper clippings and political cartoons from different European archives, the exhibition "Dictatorship and Democracy in the Age of Extremes" tells Europe's dramatic story of the 20th century – a past between freedom and tyranny, democracy and dictatorship.
