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<p class=MsoNormal>The Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies is happy to invite
the UW community to three important lectures.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;text-transform:uppercase'>Canada/Germany</span></b><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>: Looking Ahead during Troubled Times, </span></b>a
talk by Canada$B!G(Bs Ambassador to Germany, Kitchener native Peter Boehm. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Monday 23 March 2009 at 2pm in EV1 132</b>. More
information at <a
href="http://www.germanicandslavic.uwaterloo.ca/documents/boehmposter.pdf">http://www.germanicandslavic.uwaterloo.ca/documents/boehmposter.pdf</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;text-transform:uppercase'>Reading
with Hiccups</span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>: Goethe$B!G(Bs <i>Faust </i>and
the Eco$B!>(BLinguistics of $B!F(BHere$B!G(B, </span></b>a talk by Simon Richter from the
University of Pennsylvania, a candidate for the Diefenbaker Memorial Chair in
German Literary Studies (<a
href="http://germanicandslavic.uwaterloo.ca/diefenbakerchair/">http://germanicandslavic.uwaterloo.ca/diefenbakerchair/</a>).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Tuesday 24 March 2009 at 2pm in TC 2218</b>. More
information at <a
href="http://www.germanicandslavic.uwaterloo.ca/documents/richterposter.pdf">http://www.germanicandslavic.uwaterloo.ca/documents/richterposter.pdf</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND
THE PROJECT OF GERMAN CLASSICISM: Psychology and <i>Kultur</i>, Self and World,
</span></b>a talk by<b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> </span></b>Paul Bishop
from the University of Glasgow, another candidate for the Diefenbaker Memorial Chair
(<a href="http://germanicandslavic.uwaterloo.ca/diefenbakerchair/">http://germanicandslavic.uwaterloo.ca/diefenbakerchair/</a>).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Tuesday 31 March 2009 at 2pm in HH 373</b>. More
information at <a
href="http://www.germanicandslavic.uwaterloo.ca/documents/bishopposter.pdf">http://www.germanicandslavic.uwaterloo.ca/documents/bishopposter.pdf</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Please pass on this information to interested students and
friends.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Have a nice day,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Skid<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>James M. Skidmore<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Chair of the Dept. of
Germanic & Slavic Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Faculty of Arts / University
of Waterloo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Waterloo, ON N2L
3G1 CANADA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>E | <a
href="mailto:skidmore@uwaterloo.ca">skidmore@uwaterloo.ca</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>W | <a
href="www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~skidmore">www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~skidmore</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>W | <a
href="www.germanicandslavic.uwaterloo.ca">www.germanicandslavic.uwaterloo.ca</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>T | 519.888.4567, x33687<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>F | 519.746.5243<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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