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The Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies is hosting a series of lectures to celebrate the Diefenbaker Memorial Chair of German Literary Studies, an endowed research and public engagement professorship at the University of Waterloo. Leading scholars will be demonstrating the breadth and range of German studies today.

Three lectures will be taking place in March and April:

• Thursday, March 5, 2026 - Priscilla Layne (University of North Caroline at Chapel HIll): Swiss Postcolonial Literature? Reading Martin Dean's Meine Väter (2003) Through Trauma, Mutism, and Third Space
• Thursday, March 26, 2026 - Hannah Eldridge (University of Wisconsin-Madison): The (Germanophone) Poem and the (Connected) World
• Monday, April 6, 2026 - Anjeana Hans (Wellesley College): From Vienna to Hollywood: Independent Films, Exile, and the Shaping of Hollywood Genre

This series is being held in conjunction with the Waterloo Centre for German Studies. For more information on the lectures, please visit The Diefenbaker Lectures website.

The Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies is planning on offering RUSS 102 - Elementary Russian 2 in Winter 2026 depending on student interest. 

If you are interested in continuing learning Russian and would like to take RUSS 102 in Winter 2026, please email the department's Undergraduate Office (gssugrad@uwaterloo.ca) as soon as possible to let us know. Sufficient student enrolment is required to offer the course.

Pre-requisite: RUSS 101 or instructor permission.

 

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DAAD – German Academic Exchange Service invites students and faculty from German language and/or culture programs to join them for an online information session about scholarship and grant programs of relevance to German language learners and those students whose research includes aspects of  German culture, politics, economics or society.

Thursday, October 2, 2025, from 2 to 3pm EDT (11am to noon PDT)

To join the DAAD for this webinar, please register here.

Are you looking for a German language and cultural experience you will never forget?


Spend May and June 2025 in Germany with the Canadian Summer School in Germany (CSSG)!

Application is now open!

Application deadline: January 31, 2025
 

The Waterloo Centre for German Studies will be hosting an online workshop on Graduate Studies in German.

When: Friday, November 24, 2023

• 1:30pm - 2:15pm ET

Where: Zoom

This workshop is aimed at both undergraduate and graduate students interested in German studies on the graduate level. 

Interested? Please register for the workshop. 

Are you looking for a German language and cultural experience you will never forget?


Spend May and June 2024 in Germany with the Canadian Summer School in Germany (CSSG)!

Apply now!
 

Application deadline: February 7, 2024

In co-operation with the German Pedagogical Exchange Office (PAD), German Studies Canada is accepting applications for positions as English-language assistants in the Federal Republic of Germany.

DAAD once again invites full-time students at Canadian universities to participate in their annual contest, this year taking place under the banner #PictureYourselfInGermany.

Submission deadline: May 12, 2023, by 5:00pm (EDT)

We proudly present to you the Winter 2023 Golden Boar Awards.

Apply now to the 2023 Canadian Summer School in Germany (CSSG)!

The application deadline is January 31, 2023.