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:20210314T070000 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:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f1941537fd2 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\n [Anjeana Hans]\nWhen the Nazis rose to pow er in Germany in 1933\, they instituted laws\nthat systematically excluded Jewish Germans from cultural and social\nlife and thus marked the start o f a wave of forced immigration. Many\nfilmmakers\, writers\, and actors fo rced into exile initially went to\nAustria\, where they were able to produ ce independent films until the\n_Anschluss_ of 1938. This talk focuses on director Henry Koster\, who\nbegan his career in Berlin\, made several ind ependent films while in\nexile in Austria\, and finally reached Hollywood\ , where he was one of a\nfairly small number of exile directors to build a truly successful\ncareer. By tracing continuities across his work\, I wil l consider how\nKoster’s Austrian independent films\, which were marked indelibly by\nthe experience of exile\, shaped his later work and contribu ted to the\ndevelopment of Hollywood genres.\n\nPart of The Diefenbaker L ectures\n[/germanic-slavic-studies/diefenbaker-lectures]\, a series of tal ks by\nleading scholars in German studies.\n\n_Anjeana Hans is Professor a nd Chair of German Studies at Wellesley\nCollege._\n\n-------------------- -----\n\n_If you wish to attend\, please register at Eventbrite\n[https:// www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-diefenbaker-lecture-series-anjeana-hans-tickets-19 83384997920?aff=oddtdtcreator]\n- there's a reception after the lecture\, and we want to make sure\neveryone gets something to eat and drink!_ DTSTAMP:20260429T051605Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f19415508af 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:THE (GERMANOPHONE) POEM AND THE (CONNECTED) WORLD\n\n [Hannah E ldridge]\nI bring discussions of lyric poetry and its affordances together with\nthinking about race and identity\, specifically through postcolonia l\ntheory and poetics. Drawing on Édouard Glissant’s conception of\n“ Relation” as multidirectional and dynamic interconnection\, I\ntrace pat hs from Rainer Maria Rilke in Paris to Algeria\, Sudan\, and\nthe Caribbea n. In doing so\, I aim to re-think the canon and the\nmargins of German po etry as porous and open to contestation. This\nmeans both expanding defini tions of “Germanness” and setting\nGermanophone and other language tex ts into relation\, tracking routes\nof mutual strangeness and influence.\n \nPart of The Diefenbaker Lectures\n[/germanic-slavic-studies/diefenbaker -lectures]\, a series of talks by\nleading scholars in German studies.\n\n _Hannah Eldridge is Professor of German at the University of\nWisconsin-Ma dison where she also edits the scholarly journal\n_Monatshefte_._\n\n----- --------------------\n\n_Please register at Eventbrite\n[https://www.event brite.ca/e/the-diefenbaker-lecture-series-hannah-eldridge-tickets-19833849 08653?aff=oddtdtcreator]\n-  there's a reception after the lecture\, and we want to make sure\neveryone gets something to eat and drink!_ DTSTAMP:20260429T051605Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f1941552d65 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:SWISS POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE? READING MARTIN DEAN'S _MEINE\nV ÄTER_ (2003) THROUGH TRAUMA\, MUTISM\, AND THIRD SPACE\n\n [Priscilla La yne]\nMartin Dean’s novel _Meine Väter_ (“My Fathers\,” 2003)\nfo llows Robert\, a Swiss man of Indo-Trinidadian origin\, whose\ndaughter’ s birth triggers an existential crisis over his uncertain\nidentity. Raise d by his Swiss mother and Indo-Trinidadian stepfather\,\nRobert seeks answ ers from his biological father\, Ray. Yet when he\nfinally finds Ray in Lo ndon\, living in a nursing home and mute\nfollowing a racist attack\, Robe rt’s search becomes an exploration of\nabsence rather than revelation. R obert and his father’s subsequent\njourney to Trinidad unfolds as a ques t for truth that remains\nunresolved\, fragmented across conflicting accou nts from relatives\,\nfriends\, and cultural artefacts. I argue that Dean ’s novel employs\npsychoanalytic and postcolonial frameworks\, in partic ularly trauma\,\nhybridity\, dislocation\, and Homi Bhabha’s “third sp ace\,” to\nstage the impossibility of recovery and self-coherence. Ray ’s\nmuteness functions as both the bodily trace of colonial violence and \nan aesthetic “void\,” positioning _Meine Väter_ as a compelling\n example of Swiss postcolonial literature.\n\nPart of The Diefenbaker Lect ures\n[/germanic-slavic-studies/diefenbaker-lectures]\, a series of talks by\nleading scholars in German studies.\n\n_Priscilla Layne is Professor o f German and Director of the Center for\nEuropean Studies at the Universit y of North Carolina at Chapel Hill._\n\n-------------------------\n\n_If y ou wish to attend\, please register at Eventbrite\n[https://www.eventbrite .ca/e/the-diefenbaker-lecture-series-priscilla-layne-tickets-1983384515477 ?aff=oddtdtcreator]\n- there's a reception after the lecture\, and we want to make sure\neveryone gets something to eat and drink!_ DTSTAMP:20260429T051605Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f1941555008 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211130T113000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211130T115000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/canadian-summer-sch ool-germany-info-session-0 LOCATION:Canada SUMMARY:Canadian Summer School in Germany - Info session CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEND SUMMER 2022 IN GERMANY WITH STUDENTS FR OM\nACROSS CANADA?\n\nThe Canadian Summer School in Germany (CSSG) offers elementary\,\nintermediate\, and advanced German language & culture immers ion\nclasses\, as well as German community service-learning courses in\nKa ssel\, Germany\, May 4 – June 22\, 2022. DTSTAMP:20260429T051605Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f1941555b2b DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211124T153000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211124T155000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/canadian-summer-sch ool-germany-info-session LOCATION:Canada SUMMARY:Canadian Summer School in Germany - Info session CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEND SUMMER 2022 IN GERMANY WITH STUDENTS FR OM\nACROSS CANADA?\n\nThe Canadian Summer School in Germany (CSSG) offers elementary\,\nintermediate\, and advanced German language & culture immers ion\nclasses\, as well as German community service-learning courses in\nKa ssel\, Germany\, May 4 – June 22\, 2022. DTSTAMP:20260429T051605Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f19415564f4 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210511T130000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210511T141500 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/collaborative-works -progress-rediscovering-alexander-moritz LOCATION:Virtual Meeting link will be provided upon registration. Canada SUMMARY:Collaborative Works-in-Progress: Rediscovering Alexander Moritz Fre y CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Join the Waterloo Centre for German Studies\n[https://uwaterloo .ca/centre-for-german-studies/] for their\nevent COLLABORATIVE WORKS-IN-P ROGRESS: REDISCOVERING ALEXANDER MORITZ\nFREY. DTSTAMP:20260429T051605Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f1941556f6a 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:THINKING ITSELF IS DANGEROUS: READING HANNAH ARENDT NOW DTSTAMP:20260429T051605Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f1941557a21 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:20260429T051605Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f1941558608 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:LEGENDS AND DREAMS: REINHARD KLEIST’S GRAPHIC NARRATIVE - POS TER\nEXHIBITION\n\nWCGS and GSS invite one and all to browse the halls of the Modern\nLanguages building for an exclusive look at a poster exhibitio n of\nReinhard Kleist's graphic novel _Berliner Mythen_. DTSTAMP:20260429T051605Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f1941559158 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:20260429T051605Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR