Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies
Modern Languages building, room 220
Tel 519 888-4567 ext. 32428
Friday, November 17, 2017 — 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
The UW German Society invites you to a Movie Night.
Movie: Die Welle - The Wave (2008)
Friday, October 13, 2017 — 1:00 PM EDT
The Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies is pleased to present a guest lecture by visiting professor Michael Schart of Keio University, Tokyo/Yokohama. Entitled "Zwischen Übungssprechen und dialogischem Lernen: Kommunikative Didaktik im 'Sprachnotstandsgebiet A,'" Prof. Schart's lecture describes the advantages and disadvantages of the communicative language learning model developed since the 1980s. Please note that this lecture will be held in German.
Thursday, October 5, 2017 — 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
The UW German Society invites you to their first event of the term: Board Games.
Students with all levels of German are welcome. Food and board games will be provided.
Friday, September 29, 2017 — 2:00 PM EDT
Join us in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies for a fascinating public lecture!
In 1548 Burkard Waldis published his version of an Aesopian Fable collection. The title promises Aesopian fables “completely renewed” with a hundred “new fables” never published before. What the ‘new’ entails is never established by the author, but an analysis of the text shows that it challenges our modern understanding of the fable. Waldis presents tales that follow a typical fable format: short little stories with animals followed by a short sentence with a moral lesson.
Wednesday, May 31, 2017 — 7:00 PM EDT
The Embassies of Austria, the Federal Republic of Germany, and Switzerland, in cooperation with the Waterloo Centre for German Studies and Princess Cinemas, are happy to present the German Language Film Festival.
Wednesday, May 24, 2017 — 7:00 PM EDT
The Embassies of Austria, the Federal Republic of Germany, and Switzerland, in cooperation with the Waterloo Centre for German Studies and Princess Cinemas, are happy to present the German Language Film Festival.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017 — 7:00 PM EDT
The Embassies of Austria, the Federal Republic of Germany, and Switzerland, in cooperation with the Waterloo Centre for German Studies and Princess Cinemas, are happy to present the German Language Film Festival.
Friday, May 5, 2017 — 4:00 PM EDT
Join Nina Vyatkina (Associate Professor of German and Applied Linguistics at the University of Kansas) as she discusses the use of large digital textual databases in the second language classroom. She believes that these corpora can form the basis of classroom activities that help students learn.
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 — 1:45 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
This is the annual colloquium of graduate students participating in the Certificate of University Language Teaching (CULT) program.
The colloquium is generously sponsored by the Department of French Studies, the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, and the Waterloo Centre for German Studies.
Monday, April 10, 2017 — 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM EDT
Join eight graduate students from the department of Germanic and Slavic Studies as they present conference papers on German literature and film of the past decade.
Tuesday, April 4, 2017 — 7:00 PM EDT
Luther’s German translation of the Bible has remained influential to this day; his hymns are still sung; and many still use his proverbs. But does all this make him the inventor of High German?
Friday, March 31, 2017 — 7:00 PM EDT
The German Society is going out for a Schnitzel Night to Concordia Club Kitchener.
Monday, March 27, 2017 — 9:00 AM EDT
Thursday, March 23, 2017 — 5:00 PM EDT
The German Society presents... VIDEO GAME EVENING!
Tuesday, March 21, 2017 — 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM EDT
Perhaps you've taken one or more of our German language courses. Or maybe you've taken any of our other literature and culture courses, and you're wondering about learning some German with us. You may be asking yourself: What do I do with German? Where can it take me?
Monday, March 13, 2017 — 5:00 PM EDT
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO ILLNESS, THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED.
Join freelance German author Dr. Sabine Appel, author of König Heinz und Junker Jörg. Heinrich VIII. gegen Luther gegen Rom, for a presentation and discussion of Henry VIII's role in attacking Luther and, eventually, the Catholic Church itself.
Monday, February 6, 2017 — 7:00 PM EST
Timothy Snyder, the Housum Professor of History at Yale University, will be visiting the University of Waterloo to give the 2017 Grimm Lecture at the Waterloo Centre for German Studies. Snyder is best known for his 2010 book Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin, and his recent Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning.
Thursday, February 2, 2017 — 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM EST
Thursday, January 26, 2017 — 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM EST
Join students and faculty of Germanic and Slavic Studies as they have one minute to present one idea using one slide.
Part of the university's involvement in the national Three Minute Thesis competition.
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 — 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM EST
A snappy home-made poster of the film!
Victoria, a young Spanish woman newly moved to Berlin, finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
Wednesday, January 11, 2017 — 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM EST
In Oh Boy (also known as A Coffee in Berlin) Tom Schilling gives a career-making performance as Niko, a twenty-something college dropout going nowhere fast. Niko lives for the moment as he drifts through the streets of Berlin, curiously observing everyone around him and oblivious to his growing status as an outsider.