Lecture

Poster: Grimm 2011 Lecture Poster (PDF)

On November 10th, the annual Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm Lecture 2011 on Citizenship in Germany: From Mono-Cultural to Multi-Cultural Society was given by the German political scientist Christiane Lembke.

Poster: On the Interactional Import of Self-Repair in the Courtroom Poster (PDF)

On Friday, November 25, 2011, Tanya Romaniuk and Susan Ehrlich from York University held an informative talk entitled On the Interactional Import of Self-Repair in the Courtroom. 

Poster: Zukunft der deutschen Sprache Poster (PDF)

In his lecture and video presentation held on September 10^th 2012, Manfred Schröder (Verein Deutsche Sprache) made a passionate plea for the future of the German language.

Poster: Classicism and Secular Humanism Poster (PDF)

On September 17^th 2012, Jane K. Brown gave an inspiring lecture on Classicism and Secular Humanism: The Sanctification of Die Zauberflöte in Goethe’s Novelle.

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 21^st2012.

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. 

Poster: Language Attitudes in Interaction in Narrated Language Biographies Poster (PDF)

On September 28^th, Katharina König, visiting researcher from the University of Münster, Germany, held an inspiring lunch talk about Language attitudes in interaction in narrated language biographies.

Poster: Symbolic Competence 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.

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”.