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…
Throughout the past decade, a variety of critical race, queer, disability, and animal studies scholars such as Mel Y. Chen, Eunjung Kim, Dana Luciano, Jasbir K. Puar, and Dinesh Wadiwel have grappled with questions of what constitutes default forms of…
We were sad to learn that MacEwan University (Edmonton, Alberta) has suspended all German programming. The CAUTG/APAUC has sent the following letter regarding this decision - if you would like to express your solidarity with the CAUTG/APAUC in its call…
The Waterloo Centre for German Studies promotes research into any and all aspects of the German-speaking world. As part of this mandate, the WCGS encourages the communication of research findings to both academics and the broader public. The Waterloo Centre…
As feminist German Studies scholars in North America, we live and work on Indigenous land that has been and continues to be shaped by processes of colonization. In addition, working in post-secondary institutions in an inherently Eurocentric discipline like German…