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Saturday, March 12, 2016 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Seminar: Spinoza, Goethe, Deleuze: All is Leaf (or Rhizome--take your pick)

The German Romantic Novalis called Baruch Spinoza a "God-intoxicated man." Next to Rousseau, there is hardly a more influential thinker for late 18th-century German intellectual life.
Tuesday, November 1, 2016 5:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Reading Group for Christopher Kloeble's "Almost Everything Very Fast"

Join us for a reading group and then meet the author afterwards! Almost Everything Very Fast is German award-winning author Christopher Kloeble's 3rd book and his North American debut. (His 4th book, Die Unsterbliche Familie Salz, just came out in August.)

Tuesday, November 8, 2016 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Author Reading: Thomas Perle - wir danken der partei (German)

„ich war neun, lebte im besten land der welt und hatte keine ahnung von revolution.“

In welchem Land wir geboren werden, wir aufwachsen, können wir uns nicht aussuchen. 

Monday, December 5, 2016 5:30 pm - 5:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Animal Studies and the Voice of the Other

Ron Broglio will trace back to the 18th-century sensibility movement contemporary post-humanist ideas of animals having a voice. In his talk, he will pursue what animal studies can push against in terms of the animal “rights” movement.

His publications include:

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.