Course: REES 360 - Special Topics
Topic: Croatian Women throughout History
Instructor: Helena Buric
Time: 1:30 pm to 4:20 pm on Thursdays
Room: PAS 2086
Department members Grit Liebscher and Barbara Schmenk have both recently published new books.
Researchers at the Waterloo Centre for German Studies would like to talk to members of the German-Canadian community for a book and archive project that will both document and reveal the connections between personal life stories and public history.
The University of Waterloo is very happy to award Professor Eric Rentschler of Harvard University an honorary Doctor of Letters at its Fall 2013 Convocation.
Congratulations! Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
PhD candidate Belinda Kleinhans has successfully defended her dissertation Mit Texttieren jenseits der Grenze des Schweigens sprechen.
From May 2nd to May 5th, 2013, the Austrian Studies Association held their annual conference at the University of Waterloo/St. Paul’s Campus with the generous support of the Faculty of Arts at UW, the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, the Waterloo Centre for German Studies, Retail Services UW, the Austrian Studies Association, the Austrian Cultural Forum, Austrian Embassy (Ottawa), and the Austrian Cultural Forum (New York).
Prof. Na'ama Rokam from the University of Chicago, to talk about her current research project on "Celan's Orientation Between the Languages”. This interdisciplinary project combines the study of linguistics and literature to trace the stories of writers who left Germany during World War II and returned after 1945.
Marc W. Roche, Professor of German Language and Literature and Concurrent Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, addressed a large audience on the topic of "History and Forms of Beautiful Ugliness."