Departmental Calendar 2024-25

Departmental Meetings

1st Departmental Meeting: Thursday, 18 September 2025, 4-6pm
2nd Departmental Meeting: Thursday, 13 November 2025, 4-6pm
3rd Departmental Meeting: Thursday, 22 January 2026, 4-6pm
4th Departmental Meeting: Thursday, 5 March 2026, 4-6pm

Faculty Meetings

1st Faculty Meeting: Thursday, 16 October 2025, 4-6pm
2nd Faculty Meeting: Thursday, 12 February 2026, 4-6pm

Kaffeestunde

Every first Thursday of the month, 1-2pm, and third Friday of the month, 2-3pm, Odette Hall 301

Events & important dates

• Side-by-Side Writing: Tuesdays, Thursdays 9am-12p
• International Herder Society Conference: Herder’s Geography. September 4–7, 2025
• Toronto German Studies Symposium: Regarding Interspecies Entanglements: Conflict, Communication, Kinship. October 2-4, 2025
• Fall Reading Week: October 27-31, 2025
• Academic presentation by Jacob Hermant: “Reading Diasporism in Yiddish Literary History”, October 23, 2025, 4pm
• Holiday Gathering: December 4, 2025
• Spring Reading Week: February 16-20, 2026