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Chair, Germanic + Slavic Studies (https://xitter.gq/t.co/JvvBKgbmAS) / Director, Waterloo Centre for German Studies (https://xitter.gq/t.co/m3bGnUlVuS)

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Joined April 2010
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Hallowe’en comes early to @uwaterlooARTS @UWaterloo
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People begin to assemble for the gathering of solidarity announced by @UWaterlooPres @UWaterloo
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The @WatSAFE app has provided no alerts about today's stabbing incident at Hagey Hall. (On the very day that the app's alert system was tested!) That doesn't help people stay safe. Please review and fix this for future emergencies @UWaterloo #UWaterloo
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Sophie Jordan from @UofTGerman wins the award for the best graduate student paper at the German Studies Canada annual conference. #gsc2023 #congressh
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Dr Yasmin Aly from @UofTGerman wins the prize for the Best PhD Dissertation in German Studies in Canada 2020-2022. #gsc2023 #Congressh
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Dr Marie-Michèle Blondin, Lauréate du prix innover en allemande de cette année. Le prix est financé par @DAADnewyork @DaadCanada #gsc2023 #congressh
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Simone Pfleger introduces author Marianne Jungmeier whose reading at the German Studies Canada conference is generously sponsored by the Austrian Cultural Forum in Ottawa. @EmbassyOttawa #gsc2023 #Congressh
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Evelyn Castillo Marzo and Stephan Jaeger from @umanitoba tell German Studies Canada about Immersive Digital Storytelling of Difficult Histories in Contemporary Museums. #gsc2023 #Congressh
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Annika Orich presenting on Language, Identity, and Global Media in Netflix’s 1899 at German Studies Canada. #gsc2023 #Congressh
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This morning at German Studies Canada: three talks on crossing borders in screen media. First up is Annika Burkard @umanitoba discussing the European refugee crisis in Wolfgang Fischer’s Styx and Reinhard Kleist’s Der Traum von Olympia. #gsc2023 #Congressh
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On the final day of #gsc2023, part of #Congressh 2023 being held on the campus of @YorkUniversity, the students would like to remind us of something:
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Katrin Sieg from @Georgetown starting her keynote address to a full house at #gsc2023 #Congressh
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Good papers prompt good questions. #gsc2023 #Congressh
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My @UWaterloo colleague Paul Malone speaks on Caricature and Comics in the National Socialist Newspaper Österreichischer Beobachter #gsg2023 #Congressh
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Tom Hedley from Trinity College Dublin talking about Modern Mathematics, Metamorphosis and “die neue Frau” in Mela Hartwig’s Bin ich ein überflüssiger Mensch? #gsc2023 #Congressh
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Tamara Schaad from @UCalgary concludes the first session of the day for #gsc2023 #congressh
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Patricia Milewski from @UBC takes the floor at #gsc2023 #Congressh
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Angela Borchert from @WesternU gets #gsc2023 Day 2 started with a presentation on Goethe’s Gelegenheitspoesie. #Congressh
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