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Modern Hungers: Food and German Identity from the Third Reich to the Berlin Wall and Beyond

The Waterloo Centre for German Studies is now accepting applications for the Stork Awards in German Studies, Marga I. Weigel German Study Abroad Award, and Piller Graduate Award.

Application Deadline: 1 March 2019

For more information about the awards click here.

Position Available - Croatian Studies, Assistant Professor/Lecturer one-year term (renewable)

The Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo is seeking an exceptional teacher and researcher for a 12-month limited term appointment (renewable) in the area of Croatian Studies beginning January 1, 2019.

6th UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM IN GERMAN STUDIES

University of Toronto, November 17, 2018

Last Friday our IcGS "superstudies" had a lot of fun during the last conference day of the delegation from Baden-Wuerttemberg, which consisted of government people and representatives of seventeen universities.

Have you heard? The 2018 Grimm Lecture hosted by the Waterloo Centre for German Studies will celebrate the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx with renowned Marx scholar Gareth Stedman Jones.

James Skidmore wins a teaching innovative award for his online course GER 271. Congratulations!

Grit Liebscher and Emma Betz (both Germanic & Slavic) and Adrienne Lo (Anthropology) received a CFI award for a “Social Interaction, Language and Culture Laboratory (SILC Lab)”. Congratulations to all three!

Here are some great offers...

GER 200 - Transcultural Studies taught by Prof. Ann Marie Rasmussen in English language (10:00-11:20 T Th in ML 117)

GER 262 / REES 262 / ENGL 220B - Languages and Society II taught by Prof. Emma Betz in English language (10:30-11:20 MWF in ML 117)

GER 363 / FINE 363 - German Filmmakers in Hollywood taught by Prof. James Skidmore in English language (6:30-8:20 T in ECH 1220 and 2:30-4:20 Th in ML 354)

Application deadline: January 19, 2018

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