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Wednesday, March 13, 2019 2:30 pm - 5:20 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Mobility, Identity, Literacy: Mennonites by Christine Kampen Robinson

On March 13, alumna Dr. Christine Kampen Robinson (former UWaterloo PhD-student in Germanic & Slavic Studies) will come back to campus to present on her dissertation research in our graduate course “Language, Identity and Mobility” and to participate in the graduate seminar. Her research on Low German-speaking Mennonites from Mexico with a focus on identity, literacy, and language learning in this migration context encompasses several aspects of the course.

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Luther Year 2017: Did Luther Invent High German?

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?

Wednesday, May 17, 2017 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

German Language Film Festival

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 - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

German Language Film Festival

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 31, 2017 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

German Language Film Festival

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. 

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.