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Want to learn more about our 2016 Waterloo German Language Summer School in Bamberg/Germany? Interested in declaring a German Major or a German/Russian and East European Studies (REES) Minor? Wondering what our alumni are doing with a Bachelor of Arts/German degree?

Then this information session is for you! Come and meet current students and professors and hear some presentations from alumni.

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Come watch the concluding film (which is also a prequel) to Edgar Reitz magnum opus Heimat! Released in 2013 to great acclaim, Die andere Heimat returns to the village of Schabbach, but this time it is the middle of the 19th century.

This is a long film - 263 minutes! - so pizza will be provided! The film is in German with English subtitles.

In her second doctoral colloquium Daniela Roth will talk about two chapters of her dissertation project (“Subversion or (Re)affirmation: The portrayal of immigrants and migration experience in the contemporary transnational Adoleszenzroman”) which examine Alina Bronsky’s Scherbenpark and Steven Uhly’s Adams Fuge. Ms.

Edgar Reitz’ Rückkehr ins Kino löste 2013 bei den Filmfestspielen von Venedig Begeisterung aus. Die internationale Filmkritik war sich einig: Mit der „Anderen Heimat“ habe der Regisseur einen fulminanten Schlusspunkt für seine gefeierte „Heimat“-Reihe geliefert.

A historical perspective on gender and foreign language learning

As part of a week-long visit to the University of Waterloo, Prof. Sabine Doff from the University of Bremen is giving a lecture on gender foreign language learning.