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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Tomorrow (May 29), Marc Bauder will be at the University of Waterloo as part of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies’ annual conference. He’ll talk about how he and his brother conceived and
executed the public art installation </span><i style="font-family: Calibri;">Lichtgrenze</i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"> (</span><i style="font-family: Calibri;">Border of Lights)</i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"> to
commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The presentation will be in English, and all are welcome. Simply come to HH2107 at 3:30 p.m.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri;">For more information on the event, visit <a href="http://wcgs.ca/" style="color: purple;">http://wcgs.ca</a>. For more information on the project itself, visit <a href="http://lichtgrenze.de/" style="color: purple;">http://lichtgrenze.de</a>.
Although much of it is in German, the photos will show you the size, scope, and impact of the 8,000 lit balloons.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">The Department’s Annual Conference, <i>Visual, Cultural and Literary Codes</i>, also takes place tomorrow and begins at 10:00 a.m. Students will give presentations on their topics
of research:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">"Die Funktion der Modalpartikel </span><em style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">nun
mal</em><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> in gesprochener Sprache" - </span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Isabelle
Eberz</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><em style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"Das</em><em style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Berliner
Journal</em><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> während des Ersten Weltkrieges" - </span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Sonja
Schäfer and Caterina Katzer</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Narrative Codes of Madness - Unreliable Narration
in Steven Uhly’s <i>Adams Fuge</i> and Martin Horvath’s <i>Mohr im Hemd oder wie ich auszog, die Welt zu retten</i>” - </span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Daniela Roth</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Power, Agency and Assisted Dying in Lukas Barfuss’ <i>Alices
Reise in die Schweiz</i>” - </span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Derek Andrews</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Alles nur Ketchup und Plastik? - Animal Death as
Spectacle in Michael Haneke’s <i>Benny’s Video and Caché</i>” - </span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Mario Hirstein</span></p>
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She’ll talk about how </span></font><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">images form an integral component of social communication and will </span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">discuss
the idea of a fast-moving, increasingly volatile reality that emerges largely from the power of images. Her presentation will be in German.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 254, 254);"><font face="verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">For more details about </span></font><i style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Visual,
Cultural and Literary Codes</i><font face="verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">, please visit the Department of <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/gss-conference-2015">Germanic and Slavic Studies’
website.</a></span></font></span></p>
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