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Friday, September 21, 2012 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Salvaging History: Can We Learn Anything from (Really Bad) 1970s Oral History Interviews?

Poster: Salvaging History Poster (PDF)

Alexander Freund gave an informative lecture on “Salvaging History: Can We Learn Anything from (Really Bad) 1970s Oral History Interviews?” on September 21st2012.

Alexander Freund is the holder of the Chair of German-Canadian studies and co-director of the Oral History Centre at the University of Winnipeg. 

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Colloquium - Celan's Orientation Between the Languages

On Tuesday, April 16, 2013 from 2-4 pm, the Germanic and Slavic Studies and the Diefenbaker Chair hosted the stimulating colloquium “Celan's Orientation Between the Languages”.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014 12:00 am - Friday, August 15, 2014 12:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Bertha von Suttner, A Life of Peace - Concert and Exhibit

Bertha von Suttner, born in 1843, was in many ways ahead of her times. As an avid pacifist, this remarkable woman was the figurehead of a world-wide peace movement. She relentlessly fought nationalist fanaticism, aggressive militarism, anti-Semitism and recognized the dangers of hate breeding. As a writer and lecturer, she inspired her friend and benefactor Alfred Nobel to create a Peace Prize. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for her most famous novel “Lay Down your Arms”. 

Monday, September 15, 2014 8:00 am - Friday, September 19, 2014 9:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Dictatorship and Democracy in the Age of Extremes: Spotlights on the History of Europe in the Twentieth Century

Poster for photo exhibition, Dictatorship and Democracy

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.