Waterloo Centre for German Studies - Fall 2019 Lecture Series

[Waterloo Centre for German Studies]

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We’re announcing our Fall 2019 lecture series. We start off with a Stratford Festival director – see below for more information or visit our website wcgs.ca.
“What makes me a Christian to you, makes you a Jew to me”: A Conversation with Birgit Schreyer Duarte, Theatre Director
Originally from Germany, Dr. Schreyer Duarte has made a name for herself as a dramaturg in Toronto while also transitioning into directing in the past ten years. Her current production, a contemporary interpretation of Lessing’s Nathan the Wise, is part of the 2019 Stratford Festival. Dr. Schreyer Duarte will discuss how she and her team approached the “staging of the other” in this 18th-century play from Germany, performed in today’s Canada, that reflects on the common humanity that unites us all.

Presented in cooperation with the Department of Communication Arts.

When: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 3:00pm
Where: Theatre of the Arts (Modern Languages Building, University of Waterloo)

For more information: https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/events/what-makes-me-christian-you-makes-you-jew-me

 Corpora of spoken German: ‘Hidden treasures’ and their potential uses
The “Archive of Spoken German” at the Institute for German Language (IDS) in Mannheim is comprised of a large corpora of audio and video recordings from different periods and settings, ranging from biographical interviews, everyday interactions, to spoken academic discourse. Dr. Silke Reineke 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.
Presented in cooperation with the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies

When: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 4:00pm
Where: HH 373 (Hagey Hall, University of Waterloo)

For more information: https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/events/corpora-spoken-german-hidden-treasures-and-their-potential

 The Buried Raging Sermons of the Warsaw Ghetto Rabbi
During World War II, a group of poets, artists, and historians in the Warsaw Ghetto buried thousands of documents attesting to their suffering and resistance as Jews under Nazi rule. 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. After the dust settled at the end of WWII, 700,000 displaced persons remained in the American occupation zone in Germany. Among them were 40,000 unaccompanied children - children orphaned or separated from their families by the war. Without legal guardians, these children had no one to protect or advocate for them. For the agencies responsible for their care, they were a complex problem which took years to sort out. Their story still resonates today.

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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Misty Matthews-Roper
Administrative Assistant
Waterloo Centre for German Studies<https://artsonline.uwaterloo.ca/wcgs/>
University of Waterloo<http://uwaterloo.ca/>

Phone: (519) 888-4567 ext. 39267
Email: wcgs at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:wcgs at uwaterloo.ca>
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