Events

Poster: History and Forms of Beautiful Ugliness 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.

Poster: Celan's Orientation between the Languages Poster (PDF)

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”.

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.

Poster: Jochen Horisch Wagner University of Waterloo (PDF)

Opern sind verrückt, exzentrisch, hochemotional. Sie gelten nicht als ein Genre für intellektuelle und theoretische Mitteilungen.

Diefenbaker Lecture Series: Literary Studies in the 21st Century. Poster.

By discussing the issues and problems that are currently central to their research in German Studies, these leading scholars will explore how literary studies can fulfill the expectations of an academic discipline and connect with wider society.

Graffiti on Berlin Wall: "The world's too small for walls"

Twenty-five years ago and after protests and peaceful demonstrations, the Berlin Wall opened, the East German government resigned, and German unification was on the horizon. The year 1989 was an eventful year for East Germans: protests during the local elections in spring; the flight of thousands via Hungary and Czechoslovakia in summer; anti-government protests in Leipzig and other cities and towns in fall, and the fall of the Wall in November.

Mat Schulze, prof in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies and director of the Waterloo Centre for German Studies, was a student in Leipzig in 1989. He will talk not only about the political developments that year but also give an eyewitness account of protests, civic rights actions, and demonstrations in Leipzig.

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History and Forms of Beautiful Ugliness

Waterloo Colloquium on Language Learning and Teaching

Colloquium - Celan's Orientation Between the Languages

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

Richard Wagners Theorie-Theater

Diefenbaker Lecture Series: Literary Studies in the 21st Century

Diefenbaker Lecture Series: Literary Studies in the 21st Century

Diefenbaker Lecture Series: Literary Studies in the 21st Century

Diefenbaker Lecture Series: Literary Studies in the 21st Century

The Dawn of Freedom—East Germany 1989