Events

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.

Career Booster - Global Experience Day

Lecture poster in pdf format

Timothy Snyder, the Housum Professor of History at Yale University, will be visiting the University of Waterloo to give the 2017 Grimm Lecture at the Waterloo Centre for German Studies. Snyder is best known for his 2010 book Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin, and his recent Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. 

For more information on the lecture, go to the WCGS website.

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?

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

Join Deborah Britzman's (Research Chair in Pedagogy and Psycho-Social Transformation and a Distinguished Research Professorship at York University) talk on psychoanalysis and the classroom. Please see the poster for further details.