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Wednesday, November 20, 2019 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

In the Children's Best Interests: Unaccompanied Refugee Children in Germany, 1945-1952

WCGS invites one and all to a talk by Lynne Taylor, University of Waterloo professor of History. Dr. Taylor will discuss her latest book, In the Children's Best Interests: Unaccompanied Refugee Children in Germany, 1945-1952.

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Tuesday, October 8, 2019 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Corpora of spoken German: ‘Hidden treasures’ and their potential uses

The Waterloo Centre for German Studies and Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies welcome Dr. Silke Reineke of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) on Tuesday, October 8th, 2019.

Friday, September 29, 2017 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

New fables for a New World: Guest lecture by Dr. Inci Bozkaya

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.

Friday, May 5, 2017 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Data-Driven Learning: Can and Should Language Learners Become Corpus Linguists?

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.