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Conference Agenda
Monday, May 27, 2013 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Public seminar: Cold War Myths and Realities: Understanding Today’s Threats and Challenges in Historical Perspective

On May 27, the History department at the University of Waterloo and Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA) co-hosted the 'East Germany in the Cold War' conference at BSIA. Mark Kramer, Director of the Harvard Project on Cold War Studies, gave a thrilling seminar talk entitled "Cold War Myths and Realities: Understanding Today’s Threats and Challenges in Historical Perspective" on Monday, May 27.

Image from movie, The Lives of Others
Friday, October 25, 2013 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Grimm Lecture 2013: The Lives of Others: The History of Heritage and the Rhetoric of Consensus

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.

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.