https://padlet.com/skidmore/72px8v1hs3qs It’s my pleasure to provide you with a report on the Centre’s activities during the 2016/2017 academic year. The Centre continues to move forward with its mandate of facilitating research into all aspects of the society and culture of the German-speaking world, enabling student travel to Europe, and providing Waterloo Region with opportunities to engage with German culture through public events. Before I tell you about some of our year’s highlights, let me first introduce myself: my name is James Skidmore, and I am the new Director of the Centre, having taken over the reins from Mat Schulze on July 1st of this year. Mat has left Waterloo to take up a position at San Diego State University. I’ve been at the University since 2000 in the Department of German and Slavic Studies, where I also served a term as department chair. I earned by PhD in German literary studies at Princeton University, and my research and teaching centre on contemporary German-language literature and film. This past year, thanks to some scheduling conflicts, we managed to hold not one but two Grimm Lectures, our flagship public event. In October 2016 Prof. James Retallack of the University of Toronto gave a presentation on a little-known but fascinating chapter of German electoral history entitled “Democracy in Disappearing Ink: The Politics of Exclusion in Germany before Hitler.” In his lecture Retallack explained the strategies of anti-democrats in the late 19th century to undermine electoral fairness. In February 2017, Yale scholar and best-selling author Timothy Snyder attracted a capacity crowd to the Theatre of the Arts on campus for his lecture “The Holocaust as History and Warning.” Snyder’s work on the European conflicts of the 1930s and 1940s has earned him an international following. In his talk he stressed that one major reason the Holocaust occurred was that institutions that could have prevented the rise of disorder were too weak to do so, a fact Snyder felt should not be lost in the current political climate. We were very happy to see this lecture included in the University’s “60 Years of Innovation” anniversary programming. en-us 2018-08-28 12:27:22 UTC 2023-05-19 13:20:00 UTC hello@padlet.com skidmore https://padlet.com/skidmore/72px8v1hs3qs/wish/275834855 2018-08-28 12:27:23 UTC https://padlet.com/skidmore/72px8v1hs3qs/wish/275834855 skidmore https://padlet.com/skidmore/72px8v1hs3qs/wish/275834857 2018-08-28 12:27:23 UTC https://padlet.com/skidmore/72px8v1hs3qs/wish/275834857 skidmore https://padlet.com/skidmore/72px8v1hs3qs/wish/275834861 2018-08-28 12:27:23 UTC https://padlet.com/skidmore/72px8v1hs3qs/wish/275834861 skidmore https://padlet.com/skidmore/72px8v1hs3qs/wish/275834862 2018-08-28 12:27:23 UTC https://padlet.com/skidmore/72px8v1hs3qs/wish/275834862 skidmore https://padlet.com/skidmore/72px8v1hs3qs/wish/275834865 Text 

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