Reminder: Dis/Ability in German Literature – Today!

[Waterloo Centre for German Studies]

Reminder: Dis/Ability in German Literature – Lecture Series

Join Dr. Alec Cattell (Texas Tech University) today at 1:00pm for an interactive virtual discussion about Gertrud Kolmar's last surviving literary work, the novella Susanna. This talk is part of the Dis/Ability in German Literature Lecture series organized by Professor Michael Boehringer as part of his Disability in German Literature course. The presentations cover critical disability studies, myths and rhetorics of disability, German literature, and a public reading and discussion.

All talks are free and open to the public and will be hosted on Zoom. See below for dates and a short description of each talk.

 Please see our website for more information and to register.<https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/disability-german-literature-lecture-series>



If you have any questions, please contact WCGS Administrative Assistant, Misty Matthews-Roper (wcgs at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:wcgs at uwaterloo.ca>).

A life worthy of living: Kolmar's Susanna
Speaker: Alec Cattell (Texas Tech U)
When: Thursday, March 17, 2022 (1:00-2:20pm EST)
Event Info: Join Dr. Alec Cattell (Texas Tech University) for an interactive virtual discussion about Gertrud Kolmar's last surviving literary work, the novella Susanna. After exploring the social and political context in which Susanna was written, the conversation will turn to Kolmar's mode of representing the protagonist as a person with a disability as well as the ways in which she negotiates disability myths and deploys disability rhetorics to inspire readers to read stories about disability ethically.
Register for this talk<https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/a-life-worthy-of-living-kolmars-susanna-tickets-249330302647>

Public Reading & Discussion on authorship & disability
Speaker: Mercedes Spannagel
When: Thursday, March 31, 2022 (1:00-2:20 EST)
Event Info: "Wie es klingt, wenn es quietscht". Prize-winning short story by Austrian author Mercedes Spannagel about young competitive fencers, one of whom has lost a leg and is resuming her training with a prosthesis. Reading and discussion in German.
Register for this talk<https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/public-reading-discussion-on-authorship-disability-tickets-249337664667>


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