BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20140309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20070311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20090308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20100314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20131103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20071104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20081102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20091101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682e9c00e9140 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20161025T190000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20161025T190000 URL:/centre-for-german-studies/events/2016-grimm-lectur e-democracy-disappearing-ink-politics SUMMARY:2016 Grimm Lecture: Democracy in Disappearing Ink: The Politics of\ nExclusion in Germany before Hitler CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nElection battles were fought ferociously in pre-Wor ld War One Germany\,\nwhen most middle-class Germans still opposed formal democracy.\nAnti-democrats deployed many exclusionary strategies that flew in the\nface of electoral fairness.\n DTSTAMP:20250522T033736Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682e9c00e9cb8 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20160624T000000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20161231T000000 URL:/centre-for-german-studies/events/waterloo-region-m useum-city-edge SUMMARY:ݮƵ Region Museum: City on Edge CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nLearn how a city was pushed to the edge during the First World War -\nto the point of changing its name from Berlin to Kitche ner through a\ncontroversial and high-tension referendum.\n DTSTAMP:20250522T033736Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682e9c00ea391 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20141028T170000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20141028T170000 URL:/centre-for-german-studies/events/100-years-wwi-dic tatorship-and-democracy-age-extremes SUMMARY:100 Years Since WWI: Dictatorship and Democracy in an Age of Extrem es CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nBeginning with the outbreak of World War I in 1914\ , the last century\nsaw the rise of Italian fascism and Soviet communism\, the world\neconomic crisis\, and the rise of the Nazis to power in German y\,\nleading to the horrors of World War II.\n DTSTAMP:20250522T033736Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682e9c00eaa80 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20141008T113000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20141008T125000 URL:/centre-for-german-studies/events/dawn-freedom-east -germany-1989 SUMMARY:The Dawn of Freedom—East Germany 1989 CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nTwenty-five years ago and after protests and peacef ul demonstrations\,\nthe Berlin Wall opened\, the East German government r esigned\, and\nGerman unification was on the horizon. The year 1989 was an eventful\nyear for East Germans: protests during the local elections in s pring\;\nthe flight of thousands via Hungary and Czechoslovakia in summer\ ;\nanti-government protests in Leipzig and other cities and towns in\nfall \, and the fall of the Wall in November.\n\nMat Schulze\, prof in the Depa rtment of Germanic and Slavic Studies and\ndirector of the ݮƵ Centre for German Studies\, was a student in\nLeipzig in 1989. He will talk not only about the political\ndevelopments that year but also give an eyewitne ss account of\nprotests\, civic rights actions\, and demonstrations in Lei pzig.\n DTSTAMP:20250522T033736Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682e9c00eb17f DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20140915T080000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20140919T210000 URL:/centre-for-german-studies/events/dictatorship-and- democracy-age-extremes-spotlights-history SUMMARY:Dictatorship and Democracy in the Age of Extremes: Spotlights on th e\nHistory of Europe in the Twentieth Century CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\n [Poster for photo exhibition\, Dictatorship and De mocracy]\nRevealing a total of 190 rare photographs\, newspaper clippings and\npolitical cartoons from different European archives\, the exhibition\ n\"Dictatorship and Democracy in the Age of Extremes\" tells Europe's\ndra matic story of the 20th century – a past between freedom and\ntyranny\, democracy and dictatorship.\n DTSTAMP:20250522T033736Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682e9c00eda89 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20140922T080000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20140926T210000 URL:/centre-for-german-studies/events/dictatorship-and- democracy-age-extremes-spotlights-history SUMMARY:Dictatorship and Democracy in the Age of Extremes: Spotlights on th e\nHistory of Europe in the Twentieth Century CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\n [Poster for photo exhibition\, Dictatorship and De mocracy]\nRevealing a total of 190 rare photographs\, newspaper clippings and\npolitical cartoons from different European archives\, the exhibition\ n\"Dictatorship and Democracy in the Age of Extremes\" tells Europe's\ndra matic story of the 20th century – a past between freedom and\ntyranny\, democracy and dictatorship.\n DTSTAMP:20250522T033736Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682e9c00eeab7 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20140520T000000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20140815T000000 URL:/centre-for-german-studies/events/bertha-von-suttne r-life-peace-concert-and-exhibit SUMMARY:Bertha von Suttner\, A Life of Peace - Concert and Exhibit CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nBertha von Suttner\, born in 1843\, was in many way s ahead of her times.\nAs an avid pacifist\, this remarkable woman was the figurehead of a\nworld-wide peace movement. She relentlessly fought natio nalist\nfanaticism\, aggressive militarism\, anti-Semitism and recognized the\ndangers of hate breeding. As a writer and lecturer\, she inspired her \nfriend and benefactor Alfred Nobel to create a Peace Prize. She was\nthe first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for her most\nfamous nov el “Lay Down your Arms”. \n DTSTAMP:20250522T033736Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682e9c00ef1c7 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20071120T000000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20071120T000000 URL:/centre-for-german-studies/events/book-launch-j-kra use SUMMARY:Book Launch - J. Krause CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nBook launch with documentary film (German with Engl ish subtitles)\, and\nreading (in English)\n DTSTAMP:20250522T033736Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682e9c00ef895 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20090913T000000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20091003T000000 URL:/centre-for-german-studies/events/icons-wall SUMMARY:Icons of the Wall CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nICONS OF A BORDER INSTALLATION\n\n_Photographic sea rch for traces in today's Berlin_\n\n_Exhibition_\n\nSupported by the Goet he Institute Toronto\n DTSTAMP:20250522T033736Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682e9c00effff DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20091109T000000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20091109T000000 URL:/centre-for-german-studies/events/fall-berlin-wall SUMMARY:Fall of the Berlin Wall CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nThe Fall of the Berlin Wall: Why It Happened\, What It Changed\n\nJames M. Skidmore (University of ݮƵ)\n DTSTAMP:20250522T033736Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682e9c00f0710 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20100921T133000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20100921T133000 URL:/centre-for-german-studies/events/margaret-derry-we genast SUMMARY:Margaret Derry: Wegenast CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nPOSTER: Margaret Derry: Wegenast Poster (PDF)\n[/ce ntre-for-german-studies/sites/ca.centre-for-german-studies/files/uploads/f iles/derry_poster.pdf]\n DTSTAMP:20250522T033736Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR