The CAUTG is calling for nominations for the CAUTG Prize for the Best PhD Dissertation in German Studies (for the period 2018 to 2020). Note the new deadline: 13 November 2020. The CAUTG PhD Dissertation Prize is normally awarded every other year, with two awards…
James Skidmore, Associate Professor of German at the University of Waterloo and Director of Waterloo Centre for German Studies, as well as the CAUTG's Treasurer spoke during the summer to CBC News about best practices in online teaching. You can…
The Waterloo Centre for German Studies is seeking qualified graduate students for a new internship, and we'd like help in spreading the word about this opportunity.As a Public German Studies intern, you will assist the Waterloo Centre for German Studies…
Stephan Jaeger, Professor of German Studies at the University of Manitoba, authored a new book on his work on museums and Second World war representation. The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum: From Memory, Narrative, and Experience to Experientiality…
We have sad news to share: our distinguished colleague and former CAUTG-president (2006-2008) Dr. Arnd Bohm passed away from cancer on May 22, 2020. He was a pillar of the CAUTG and German Studies in Canada, and he will be…
The increased numbers of refugees entering Europe since 2015 has put an urgency to discussions on European self-understanding and identity. In which way is Europe, anthropologist Regina Römhild asks, ‘characterized by a long-term presence of migration’ which is partly neglected…
We are currently inviting abstracts for contributions to a peer-reviewed edited collection that examines the socialist legacy in Eastern Europe in its relation to the present and the future. We would particularly welcome contributions that focus on German-speaking film, theater,…
Don’t teach. Facilitate. That’s the key to how Dr. James Skidmore, Associate Professor of German at the University of Waterloo and Director of the Waterloo Centre for German Studies, teaches online. Instead of trying to replicate lectures or other standard…
This coming Thursday the Waterloo Centre for German Studies was expecting a full house to attend the 2020 Grimm Lecture. Samantha Rose Hill, Assistant Director of the Hannah Arendt Centre for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, was to give…
Please note the following message from John Plews, Director of the Canadian Summer School in Germany (CSSG): It is with sadness that I must inform you of the official cancellation of the Canadian Summer School in Germany (CSSG) which was…