La version française suit. The following statement on Peter Handke and the Nobel Prize for Literature was approved by the CAUTG/APAUC Executive on 17 November 2019. We acknowledge both Handke’s literary talent and place in German-language literature of the 1960s, 1970s…
It gives me great pleasure to announce the results of the annual Kim Misfeldt Prize. In the inaugural year of the Prize, the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG), in partnership with the Canadian Summer School in Germany (CSSG),…
The Canadian Association for University Teachers of German (CAUTG) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) are pleased to announce the Call for Nominations for the Innovate German Award 2020. We invite nominations and self-nominations for the best course materials in the field of German…
You are invited to submit proposals for papers to be given at the CAUTG annual meeting at the University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario), May 29 – June 1, 2020. Papers presenting original, unpublished research on any topic or period…
The Executive of the Canadian Association of Teachers of German wishes to express its solidarity with Shelby McPhee, a member of the Black Canadian Studies Association (BCSA). We were shocked to hear about his treatment during an incident at the…
The final program for the CAUTG Annual Meeting at Congress 2019 in Vancouver from May 31 until Monday, June 3, is available here.
Just a final reminder of the early bird rate deadline for Congress which is “prior to March 31”, i.e., on Saturday/before Sunday. After that there is a considerable hike in the Congress portion of the fees. To register for Congress and the CAUTG conference,…
The CAUTG conference organizers are providing some additional details about graduate students’ attendance at the banquet in Vancouver. If you are able, you may contribute to our campaign to make sure students can attend the event. See below, and let…
The winner of the inaugural Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize has been announced. Alice Weinreb of Loyola University is the winner for her book Modern Hungers: Food and Power in Twentieth-Century Germany,published by Oxford University Press. Prof. Weinreb examines…
The CAUTG PhD Dissertation Prize is normally awarded every other year, with two awards being a possibility in the event that submissions are found to include two outstanding dissertations from fields considered too different to allow fair comparison. The next prize is to be awarded at the Annual Meeting of the Association in May/June 2019 in Vancouver, for dissertations defended between 16 October 2016 and 15 October 2018.