BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6aa80e97987a5 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260406T190000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260406T210000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/anjeana-hans LOCATION:Balsillie School of International Affairs 67 Erb Street West Water loo ON Canada SUMMARY:Anjeana Hans CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:FROM VIENNA TO HOLLYWOOD: INDEPENDENT FILMS\, EXILE\, AND THE SHAPING\nOF HOLLYWOOD GENRE\n\nWhen the Nazis rose to power in Germany in 1933\, they instituted laws\nthat systematically excluded Jewish Germans f rom cultural and social\nlife and thus marked the start of a wave of force d immigration. Many\nfilmmakers\, writers\, and actors forced into exile i nitially went to\nAustria\, where they were able to produce independent fi lms until the\n_Anschluss_ of 1938. This talk focuses on director Henry Ko ster\, who\nbegan his career in Berlin\, made several independent films wh ile in\nexile in Austria\, and finally reached Hollywood\, where he was on e of a\nfairly small number of exile directors to build a truly successful \ncareer. By tracing continuities across his work\, I will consider how\nK oster’s Austrian independent films\, which were marked indelibly by\nthe experience of exile\, shaped his later work and contributed to the\ndevel opment of Hollywood genres. DTSTAMP:20260914T151119Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6aa80e979dcce DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260326T190000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260326T210000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/hannah-eldridge LOCATION:Balsillie School of International Affairs 67 Erb Street West Water loo ON Canada SUMMARY:Hannah Eldridge CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:I bring discussions of lyric poetry and its affordances togethe r with\nthinking about race and identity\, specifically through postcoloni al\ntheory and poetics. Drawing on Édouard Glissant’s conception of\n “Relation” as multidirectional and dynamic interconnection\, I\ntrace paths from Rainer Maria Rilke in Paris to Algeria\, Sudan\, and\nthe Carib bean. In doing so\, I aim to re-think the canon and the\nmargins of German poetry as porous and open to contestation. This\nmeans both expanding def initions of “Germanness” and setting\nGermanophone and other language texts into relation\, tracking routes\nof mutual strangeness and influence . DTSTAMP:20260914T151119Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6aa80e979ec31 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260305T190000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260305T210000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/priscilla-layne LOCATION:Balsillie School of International Affairs 67 Erb Street West Water loo ON Canada SUMMARY:Priscilla Layne CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Martin Dean’s novel _Meine Väter_ (“My Fathers\,” 2003 )\nfollows Robert\, a Swiss man of Indo-Trinidadian origin\, whose\ndaught er’s birth triggers an existential crisis over his uncertain\nidentity. Raised by his Swiss mother and Indo-Trinidadian stepfather\,\nRobert seeks answers from his biological father\, Ray. Yet when he\nfinally finds Ray in London\, living in a nursing home and mute\nfollowing a racist attack\, Robert’s search becomes an exploration of\nabsence rather than revelati on. Robert and his father’s subsequent\njourney to Trinidad unfolds as a quest for truth that remains\nunresolved\, fragmented across conflicting accounts from relatives\,\nfriends\, and cultural artefacts. I argue that Dean’s novel employs\npsychoanalytic and postcolonial frameworks\, in pa rticularly trauma\,\nhybridity\, dislocation\, and Homi Bhabha’s “thir d space\,” to\nstage the impossibility of recovery and self-coherence. R ay’s\nmuteness functions as both the bodily trace of colonial violence a nd\nan aesthetic “void\,” positioning _Meine Väter_ as a compelling \nexample of Swiss postcolonial literature. DTSTAMP:20260914T151119Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6aa80e979fa31 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200319T190000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200319T190000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/wcgs-grimm-2020-lec ture-thinking-itself-dangerous LOCATION:Canada SUMMARY:WCGS Grimm 2020 Lecture - Thinking Itself is Dangerous CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:How can Arendt’s work in Origins and one of her other masterp ieces\,\nThe Human Condition from 1958\, help us understand our contempora ry\npolitical moment? How have our political conditions changed in the\n21 st century? How has digital media technology transformed social\nrelations ? Is it possible to stop and think about what we are doing\ntoday? Hannah Arendt’s work is not a roadmap into the future\, but it\ncan help us ori ent ourselves to the present political crises and\,\nperhaps in the proces s\, teach us to love the world. DTSTAMP:20260914T151119Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6aa80e97a0b1f DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191209T221500 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191209T221500 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/15th-germanic-and-s lavic-studies-conference LOCATION:EV3 - Environment 3 200 University Avenue West Room 3412 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:15th Germanic and Slavic Studies Conference CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:JOIN US FOR OUR 15TH ANNUAL GSS CONFERENCE!  DTSTAMP:20260914T151119Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6aa80e97a1ac0 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191111T130100 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191111T130100 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/legends-and-dreams- reinhard-kleists-graphic-narrative LOCATION:ML - Modern Languages 200 University Avenue West Waterloo ON N2L 3 G1 Canada SUMMARY:Legends and Dreams: Reinhard Kleist’s Graphic Narrative CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:WCGS and GSS invite one and all to browse the halls of the Mode rn\nLanguages building for an exclusive look at a poster exhibition of\nRe inhard Kleist's graphic novel _Berliner Mythen_. DTSTAMP:20260914T151119Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6aa80e97a2a85 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191112T150000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191112T150000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/social-media-aesthe tics-mobility-reinhard-kleists-olympic LOCATION:PAS - Psychology\, Anthropology\, Sociology 200 University Avenue West PAS 1241 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:The Social Media Aesthetics of Mobility: Reinhard Kleist’s The\nO lympic Dream and Comics on Refugee Experience CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:The Social Media Aesthetics of Mobility: Reinhard Kleist’s Th e\nOlympic Dream and Comics on Refugee Experience  DTSTAMP:20260914T151119Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6aa80e97a3920 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191121T130000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191121T150000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/alexandre-trudeau-k eynote-and-panel-discussion LOCATION:HH - J.G. Hagey Hall of the Humanities 200 University Avenue West Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:Alexandre Trudeau Keynote and Panel Discussion CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:CAREER BOOSTER - GLOBAL EXPERIENCE DAY DTSTAMP:20260914T151119Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6aa80e97a4926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191120T190000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191120T190000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/childrens-best-inte rests-unaccompanied-refugee-children LOCATION:Canada SUMMARY:In the Children's Best Interests: Unaccompanied Refugee Children in \nGermany\, 1945-1952 CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:WCGS invites one and all to a talk by Lynne Taylor\, University of\nWaterloo professor of History. Dr. Taylor will discuss her latest\nbo ok\, _In the Children's Best Interests: Unaccompanied Refugee\nChildren in Germany\, 1945-1952_. DTSTAMP:20260914T151119Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6aa80e97a5d3b DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191105T190000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191105T190000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/buried-raging-sermo ns-warsaw-ghetto-rabbi LOCATION:Canada SUMMARY:The Buried Raging Sermons of the Warsaw Ghetto Rabbi CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Join WCGS as professor James Diamond\, Chair of Jewish Studies at the\nUniversity of Waterloo\, gives his talk _ The Buried Raging Sermon s of\nthe Warsaw Ghetto Rabbi_. DTSTAMP:20260914T151119Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR