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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Today,<b> Tuesday, November 12 at 3:00pm</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>WCGS welcomes Dr. Elizabeth Nijdam of the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern
European Studies at the University of British Columbia for her talk<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Social Media Aesthetics of Mobility: Reinhard Kleist’s The Olympic Dream and Comics on Refugee Experience.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Dr. Nijdam will examine Reinhard Kleist's graphic novel<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">An Olympic Dream: The Story of Samia Yusuf Omar</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and
how it integrates the technologies of refugee life in order to disrupt media representation of migrants and the - often fatal - experience of migration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;border:none;padding:0cm"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">When</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">: Tuesday, November, 12, 2019 at 3:00pm<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Where</span></strong>: PAS 1241 (Psychology, Anthropology and Sociology Building, University of Waterloo)<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For more information:</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/events/social-media-aesthetics-mobility-reinhard-kleists-olympic"><span style="color:#954F72">https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/events/social-media-aesthetics-mobility-reinhard-kleists-olympic</span></a></span></strong><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">There is a poster exhibition of </span><span lang="EN-US">Reinhard Kleist's graphic novel
<i>Berliner Mythen</i> set up in the Modern Languages building. </span><span lang="EN-US">The poster series follows the taxi driver Ozan, who connects the audience to the diverse myths of Berlin by the streets he associates with the stories. When his passengers
name their destination, Ozan always has a story to tell about Berlin‘s most varied people – from the tsar‘s daughter Anastasia to David Bowie. This exhibition has been organized by the course GER 308
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">German through Comics</span></em> taught by
<a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/people-profiles/sara-marsh">
Sara Marsh</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">When: The exhibition is on now and will run until the end of the semester.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Where: <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/3beb03ccd9b149a64146f1eb9/images/82c831d4-0884-4495-a7a8-1d99fdd97a79.png" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#007C89">Modern Languages Building at the University of Waterloo (Printable Map available here)</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For more information: <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/events/legends-and-dreams-reinhard-kleists-graphic-narrative">
https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/events/legends-and-dreams-reinhard-kleists-graphic-narrative</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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