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Monday, February 6, 2017 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Grimm Lecture 2017

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.

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?

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.

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.

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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.