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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Dear colleagues,<br>
</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The Waterloo Centre
for German Studies is organizing two lectures and you are cordially
invited.<br>
<b><br>
Ethnic Cleansing
1945-1948</b></font><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Alfred
de Zayas</b> will give a lecture entitled '<b>Ethnic Cleansing 1945-1948</b>'
on
<b>Monday, 22 March at 7.30 pm</b> in the Arts Lecture Hall (<b>AL
113</b>). He is a well-known
human-rights activist who has worked in high-ranking positions for the
United Nations for many years, he is a Harvard-trained lawyer and has a
PhD in history from Göttingen University, he is a prolific writer who
has published extensively on the expulsion and flight of Germans after
World War II and a number of other topics. I would encourage you to
visit his website <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.alfreddezayas.com/">http://www.alfreddezayas.com/</a>
to find out more. Further details are available at
the Centre website <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.wcgs.ca">http://www.wcgs.ca</a> in particular at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wcgs.ca/www/index.php/programming/events/120-dezayas1.html">http://wcgs.ca/www/index.php/programming/events/120-dezayas1.html</a>.<br>
His lecture will be followed by a panel discussion with the historians
Dieter Buse (Laurentian) and Sebastian-Siebel-Achenbach (Waterloo) as
participants. <br>
<br>
</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Rainer Maria Rilke
als Heimatdichter</b><br>
Alfred de Zayas has translated some of Rilke's poetry - the book <i>Larenopfer
</i>- into English, he has also written and published his own poems in
English and is the president of the P.E.N. Centre Suisse romande and a
member of the Rilke Society. He will give a lecture - <u>in German</u>
- on Rilke on <b>Tuesday, 23 March 2010, at 1.30pm in the Modern
Languages Building ML 354</b>.<br>
You
will find further information on the
Centre website <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.wcgs.ca">http://www.wcgs.ca</a>.<br>
<br>
Best wishes<br>
Mat</font><br>
<br>
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Mat Schulze, PhD
Director of the Waterloo Centre for German Studies
Associate Professor of German
Dept of Germanic and Slavic Studies
University of Waterloo
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://germanicandslavic.uwaterloo.ca/%7Emschulze">http://germanicandslavic.uwaterloo.ca/~mschulze</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.wcgs.ca">http://www.wcgs.ca</a></pre>
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