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<p class="MsoNormal"><img width="588" height="236" style="width:6.125in;height:2.4583in" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image001.png@01D56704.AC884700"><span style="mso-style-textoutline-type:solid;mso-style-textoutline-fill-color:black;mso-style-textoutline-fill-alpha:0%;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth:.75pt;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap:round;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join:bevel;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit:0%;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash:solid;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align:center;mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound:simple"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Next
<b>Tuesday, September 17 at 3:00pm</b> WCGS welcomes Birgit Schreyer Duarte, director of the Stratford Festival hit
<i>Nathan the Wise.</i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">In a live conversation with WCGS Director James Skidmore, Dr. Schreyer Duarte will discuss what it’s like to bring a play from 18th-century Germany to life in 21st-century
Canada. Lessing’s <i>Nathan the Wise </i>has long been considered a shining example of Enlightenment religious tolerance, and Dr. Schreyer Duarte will discuss how Stratford audiences responded. And if you’re interested in questions of literary adaptation or
just how plays get staged nowadays, this hard-working theatre director has a wealth of knowledge and experience to share. Everyone is warmly invited to attend.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><br>
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<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">P<span style="color:black">resented in cooperation with the Department of Communication Arts.</span></span></em><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">When</span></strong>: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 3:00pm<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Where</span></strong>: Theatre of the Arts (Modern Languages Building, University of Waterloo)<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For more information: </span>
</strong></span><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/events/what-makes-me-christian-you-makes-you-jew-me" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#007C89">https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/events/what-makes-me-christian-you-makes-you-jew-me</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Other WCGS Fall 2019 Lectures: <a name="Silke"></a><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#202020">Corpora of spoken German: ‘Hidden treasures’ and their potential uses</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dr. Silke Reineke of IDS Mannheim will lead the audience on a small virtual tour of the IDS’s archive to shed light on some of its ‘hidden treasures’ and their potential uses for
cultural history and for teaching and learning German.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Presented in cooperation with the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">When</span></strong>: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 4:00pm<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Where</span></strong>: HH 373 (Hagey Hall, University of Waterloo)<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For more information: </span>
</strong></span><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/events/corpora-spoken-german-hidden-treasures-and-their-potential" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#007C89">https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/events/corpora-spoken-german-hidden-treasures-and-their-potential</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <b><span style="color:#202020">The Buried Raging Sermons of the Warsaw Ghetto Rabbi</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Professor James Diamond, Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Waterloo, will give a talk on a recovered manuscript of weekly sermons delivered in the Ghetto by a Hasidic rabbi desperately trying to
preserve his faith in the face of unimaginable loss and pain. It is a rare testament to one human being’s struggle with the incomprehensible evil of the Holocaust.<br>
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<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Presented in cooperation with the Department of Religious Studies.</span></em><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">When</span></strong>: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 7:00pm<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Where</span></strong>: Balsillie School of International Affairs (67 Erb St W, Waterloo, ON N2L 6C2 )<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For more information</span></strong>:
</span><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/events/buried-raging-sermons-warsaw-ghetto-rabbi" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#007C89">https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/events/buried-raging-sermons-warsaw-ghetto-rabbi</span></a></p>
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<h2 style="margin-top:0in;line-height:125%"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></h2>
<h2 style="margin-top:0in;line-height:125%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#202020">In the Children's Best Interests: Unaccompanied Refugee Children in Germany, 1945-1952</span></b><o:p></o:p></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">University of Waterloo history professor Lynne Taylor will discuss her new book,
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In the Children's Best Interests</span></em><i><br>
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</i><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">When</span></strong>: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 7:00pm<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Where</span></strong>: Knox Presbyterian Church (<span class="lrzxr">50 Erb St W, Waterloo, ON N2L 1T1)
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For more information</span></strong>:
</span><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/events/childrens-best-interests-unaccompanied-refugee-children" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#007C89">https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/events/childrens-best-interests-unaccompanied-refugee-children</span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Misty Matthews-Roper</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Administrative Assistant</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://artsonline.uwaterloo.ca/wcgs/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#954F72">Waterloo Centre for German Studies</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://uwaterloo.ca/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#954F72">University of Waterloo</span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Phone: (519) 888-4567 ext. 39267</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Email: </span><a href="mailto:wcgs@uwaterloo.ca"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">wcgs@uwaterloo.ca</span></a></p>
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