New Fall Event - WCGS - Dr. Elizabeth Nijdam - Comics and Migration

[Waterloo Centre for German Studies]

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Tuesday, November 12 at 3:00pm WCGS welcomes Dr. Elizabeth Nijdam of the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia for her talk The Social Media Aesthetics of Mobility: Reinhard Kleist’s The Olympic Dream and Comics on Refugee Experience.
Dr. Nijdam will examine Reinhard Kleist's graphic novel An Olympic Dream: The Story of Samia Yusuf Omar and how it integrates the technologies of refugee life in order to disrupt media representation of migrants and the - often fatal - experience of migration.
When: Tuesday, November, 12, 2019 at 3:00pm
Where: PAS 1241 (Psychology, Anthropology and Sociology Building, University of Waterloo)

For more information: https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/events/social-media-aesthetics-mobility-reinhard-kleists-olympic

Other WCGS Fall 2019 Lectures:

 The Buried Raging Sermons of the Warsaw Ghetto Rabbi
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.

Presented in cooperation with the Department of Religious Studies.

When: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 7:00pm
Where: Balsillie School of International Affairs (67 Erb St W, Waterloo, ON N2L 6C2 )

For more information: https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/events/buried-raging-sermons-warsaw-ghetto-rabbi


In the Children's Best Interests: Unaccompanied Refugee Children in Germany, 1945-1952
University of Waterloo history professor Lynne Taylor will discuss her new book, In the Children's Best Interests

When: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 7:00pm
Where: Knox Presbyterian Church (50 Erb St W, Waterloo, ON N2L 1T1)

For more information: https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/events/childrens-best-interests-unaccompanied-refugee-children


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Phone: (519) 888-4567 ext. 39267
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