Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 3:00 pm (ML 245)

Regine Zeller (University of Mannheim)

Affen, Wölfe und Tanzbären. Tiermetaphorik in Thomas Manns frühen Erzählungen.

Der Gegner als “verdammter Affe”, der Jude als “Laus” und “Raubtier”, der Ehemann als “Schwein” – der Vortrag untersucht Form und Funktion der Beschreibung des anderen als Tier, als nicht-menschliches und vermeintlich niederes Wesen in frühen Erzählungen Thomas Manns sowie die damit einhergehenden Diskuse von Macht, Gewalt und Herrschaft.

Poster

October 4, 2011 - 4:30 pm (HH 1108)

Christophe Fricker (Craig-Kade writer in residence at Rutger University)

Guttenberg to Google Street View: Germany Today as seen by its Cartoonists

Poster

September 29, 2011 - 4:30 pm (HH 334)

Susan Thorne (Queen's University) and Geoffrey Hayes (University of Waterloo)

The Anthes Papers: from Manuscript to Ontario's German Legacy

Poster

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September 16, 2011 - 2:00 pm (HH 150)

Dr. Andrea Strutz (University of Graz / Austria)

Austrian Immigration to Canada - 1938 to 1970

(Organized by the Department of History, co-sponsored by the Centre for German Studies and the Department of Jewish Studies)

Over the course of the 20th century, migration movements of Austrians to Canada have taken a number of different forms such as forced migration or voluntary (labour) migration. During WWII, Jewish immigration to Canada was restricted, although several hundred Austrian and German Jewish refugees (males) were deported from Great Britain and were interned in Eastern Canada; after a year or two, they were released from the camps. Many of these Austrian Jewish refugees decided to stay in Canada to start a new life. In the post-WWII period, when Canada opened its labour market widely to European immigrants, approximately 34,000 non-Jewish Austrian women and men migrated overseas by 1972. Furthermore, several hundred Austrian Holocaust survivors resettled in that period (mainly from Great Britain and Israel) to Canadian provinces for economic reasons, marriage or because of family reunion. This talk will explore the legal constraints and the practice of post-1945 emigration from Austria to Canada, with special attention given to the individual experiences and the memories of both Jewish and non-Jewish Austrian migrants, collected in a series of oral histories.

Romantic Ecology Symposium

March 19th, 2011

Programme

When: Saturday, March 19th - 9:30am to 5pm

Where: Centre for Environmental and Information Technology - EIT 1015

9:00am - 9:30am	Light Breakfast and Opening Remarks
9:30am - 10:45am	Session I Morgan Tunzelmann (English, U of Waterloo): Vital Taxonomy: Eramus Darwin's Ecological Framework Christine Lehleiter (German, U of Toronto): 'Innate Repulsion': Jean Paul Richter and Evolution Shalon Noble (English, U of Western Ontario): Queen Mab and Shelly's Atomic Energy
11:00am - 12:00pm	David Clark (Professor of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster U): 'Thanks for Nothing:' Kant's Sustainable World
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00pm	Ian Balfour (Professor of English, York U): From Abyss to Abyss: Kant and the Nature of the Imagination
2:15pm - 3:15pm	Joan Steigerwald (Associate Professor, Science and Technology Studies, York U) : Ritter's Experimental Self
3:15pm - 3:45pm	Refreshments
3:45pm - 5:00pm	Session II Paola Mayer (German, U of Guelph): Bettina von Arnim's "Der Königssohn" - an Anti-poetic Tale of the Golden Age David John (German, U of Waterloo): Goethe on Science, Nature, and Ecology Belinda Kleinhans (German, U of Waterloo): Romantic Environment and the Animal in Günter Eich's poetry cycles Abgelegene Geh   Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm Lecture 2010 Inaugural Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm Lecture 2010 given by Professor David Blackbourn at the University of Waterloo on November 18, 2010. Pictures from the event Start Stop Prev. Next Read more...   Jean Snook: Reading from her recent translations Pictures from the event Start Stop Prev. Next       Download the poster.