German Studies Canada

CAUTG/APAUC

CAUTG / APAUC

Canadian Association of University Teachers of German / L?Association des Professeurs d?Allemand des Universités Canadiennes

CAUTG Prize for Best Canadian Dissertation in German Studies for dissertations defended between Oct. 16, 2008, and Oct. 15, 2010 The CAUTG Dissertation Prize is usually awarded every other year (up to two awards). The next award will be bestowed at the Annual Meeting of the Association in May 2011 in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Field of Research: Dissertations from all fields that have been [...] Save the German Department at the University of Toronto The University of Toronto plans to dissolve the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures , along with the departments of Italian, Slavic, Spanish and Portuguese, East Asian, and Comparative Literature. According to the proposal, these departments should be amalgamated into a new School of Languages and Literatures. The plan can be read here: http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/faculty-staff/academic-planning/pdfs/linked-fas-academic-plan-14-07-10.pdf (pages [...] Gert Jonke: Der Ferne Klang, transl. Jean Snook Winner of the Austrian Cultural Forum Translation Prize 2009 Title: The Distant Sound German Title: Der ferne Klang Author: Gert Jonke (1946-2009) Translator: Jean M. Snook Publishing Date: August 2010 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press Tenure Track Position in German at Memorial German Position Position #: VPA-GRRS-2010-001 The Department of German and Russian at Memorial University of Newfoundland invites applications for a tenure track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning 1 July 2011, subject to budgetary approval. A completed earned doctorate (or recognized terminal qualification in the discipline) is required for the appointee to receive [...] U of T Plans Closure of CompLit Centre, Merger of Language and Literature Departments From the article in the Torontonist: The proposed School of L&L would amalgamate the current departments of East Asian Studies, Italian Studies, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Spanish and Portuguese. The Centre of Comparative Literature, which currently offers MA and PhD programs, would be embedded in the school and redefined as [...] SUMMARY of the Academic Publishing workshop at the CAUTG Conference at Concordia University, Montreal 2010 Dear CAUTG / APAUC members, This summary may be of interest to anyone who was not able to attend our workshop on academic publishing, which took place on May 29th, 2010 at the annual CAUTG conference at Concordia University in Montreal. The workshop was very well attended: about 7 graduate students, 3 presenters and 16 [...] Writing Travel: The Poetics and Politics of the Modern Journey German and European Studies Edited by John Zilcosky University of Toronto Press 336pp From the publisher’s website: Interest in travel writing has grown rapidly within the disciplines of postcolonial and cultural studies; however, recent scholarship has failed to place travel writing within the larger literary tradition. Writing Travel assembles a superb collection of essays that [...] Literature and Censorship in Restoration Germany Literature and Censorship in Restoration Germany Repression and Rhetoric Katy Heady In 1819, the German Confederation promulgated the infamous “Carlsbad Decrees,” establishing censorship standards aimed at thwarting the political aspirations of post-Napoleonic Germany’s rapidly emerging public sphere. This most comprehensive system of state censorship to that point in German lands remained in place until the [...] New Book: ?Everybody Talks about the Weather (We Don?t): The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof? Title: Everybody Talks about the Weather (We Don’t): The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof Authors: Ulrike Meinhof Ed. and introduction by Karin Bauer (McGill) Preface by Elfriede Jelinek Afterword by Bettina Röhl Translated by Luise von Flotow Description:No other figure embodies revolutionary politics and radical chic quite like Ulrike Meinhof. In the 1960s, she was known [...]