The Waterloo Centre for German Studies is a research institute at the University of Waterloo offering research support and cultural programming.
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Waiting for a Copernican Turn: Public and NGO Theaters in Warsaw April 14, 2025 – Paweł Płoski as part of the Webinar series "Whose City?" Info: buff.ly/4f8fjR1
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Considerations on the Berlin Theater Situation: 35 Years Later March 10, 2025 – Brandon Woolf - as part of the webinar series "Whose City?" Info: buff.ly/4f8fjR1
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Happy Thursday! Only one week left until our amazing Grimm Lecture 🌎Don’t forget to register. We looking forward to see you
Join us for Grimm Lecture 2025, an in-depth exploration of Kafka’s enduring global influence—from Weimar Berlin to the modern literary world. 🌍📖
📅 Thu., Feb. 27, 7–10 PM (EST)📍CIGI Auditorium, Balsillie School / via Zoom
🔗 Registration: buff.ly/413z2NT
In Search of the People: Public Theatre in France since 1945 - February 10, 2025 – Marjorie Glas as part of the Webinar series "Whose City?" Info: buff.ly/4f8fjR1
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Join us for Grimm Lecture 2025, an in-depth exploration of Kafka’s enduring global influence—from Weimar Berlin to the modern literary world. 🌍📖
📅 Thu., Feb. 27, 7–10 PM (EST)📍CIGI Auditorium, Balsillie School / via Zoom
🔗 Registration: buff.ly/413z2NT
In case you missed it, we announced the shortlist and winner of our 2023 WCGS Book Prize in late December!
The winner is Dr. Andrea Rottmann for Queer Lives across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945–1970. (@utpress) Congratulations Dr. Rottmann! 1/
Andrea Rottmann, author of Queer Lives across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945–1970 (University of Toronto Press), has been awarded the Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize for first books published in 2023. 1/2
On Nov. 7, 100+ joined us for The Changing German Political Landscape panel.
Panelists discussed the rise of far-right parties, shifts in voter behavior, and the impact of the 2024 EU and German elections.
🎤 Dr. Schmidtke 🎤 Dr. Langenbacher 🎤 Dr. Thorlakson
Mod: Dr. Völkel
Thank you to John Paul Kleiner and all who joined us on Nov. 7 to explore DAAD's support for academic research! 🌍
Highlights:
🔍 German research landscape
📚 Funding for faculty, postdocs & PhDs
🤝 Collaboration opportunities
#DAAD #AcademicFunding #UWaterloo @daadcanada
Day 6 of our 6 days of WCGS Book Prize Finalists features Jonas Tinius. State of the Arts: An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration. (@cambridgeup) 1/2
This is a bold and wide-ranging account of the unique German public theatre system through the prism of a migrant artistic institution in the western post-industrial Ruhr region. Read more here: buff.ly/49MVM7D 2/2
Day 5 of our 6 days of WCGS Book Prize Finalists features Jeffrey Schneider. Uniform Fantasies: Soldiers, Sex, and Queer Emancipation in Imperial Germany. (@utpress) 1/2
In pursuing threads w/ which queer authors & activists stitched their fantasies about uniforms, Jeffrey Schneider offers fresh perspectives on key debates over military secrecy, disciplinary abuses in the army, and German militarism. Read more here: buff.ly/3ONsKuD 2/2
Day 4 of our 6 days of WCGS Book Prize Finalists features Andrea Rottmann. Queer Lives across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945–1970. (@utpress) 1/2
Queer Lives across the Wall examines the everyday lives of queer Berliners between 1945 - 1970, tracing private & public queer life from the end of the Nazi regime through the gay and lesbian liberation movements of the 1970s. Read more here: buff.ly/4gumROM 2/2
Day 3 of our 6 days of WCGS Book Prize Finalists features Ambika Natarajan. Servants of Culture: Paternalism, Policing, and Identity Politics in Vienna, 1700-1914. (@berghahnbooks).1/2
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Analyzing medical experts' agendas, police, socialists, feminists, legal reformers, & even serial killers, this volume puts forth a neglected history of the state of domestic service discourse & how it continues to shape the surveillance of women. buff.ly/3D55PIC 2/2
Day 2 of our 6 days of WCGS Book Prize Finalists features Ina Linge! Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences & Life Writing. (@uofmpress). 1/2
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This book brings together an exciting new archive of queer & trans voices from the history of sexual sciences in the German-speaking world. Read more about Ina Linge here: buff.ly/3BiHONT 2/2
You've heard of the 12 days of Christmas, well what about the 6 days of WCGS Book Prize Finalists? Over the next 6 days we will highlight one of our finalists each day. 1/3
Day 1 - Deborah Barton. Writing and Rewriting the Reich: Women Journalists in the Nazi and Post-War Press. (@utpress)2/3
WCGS is pleased to announce the shortlist for its annual Book Prize.
Established in 2018, the WCGS Book Prize recognizes 1st-time authors whose scholarly work contributes substantially to our understanding of any aspect of German-speaking society. 1/4
🎄✨ Experience the Magic of the Season at Kitchener’s Christkindl Market! ✨🎄
You still have two more days to experience the streets of Kitchener come alive with the spirit of a german christmas tradition dating back 700 years.
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