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<p class=MsoNormal>Cultural Encounters / Encountering Cultures<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>A series of ten public lectures by members of the Faculty of
Arts at the University of Waterloo<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Winter Term 2010 – Mondays at 4:30pm – Arts
Lecture Hall Room 113<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Join your Faculty of Arts colleagues as they explore the
interaction of societies and cultures. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Upcoming lecture: Monday 11 January 2009, 4:30pm, Arts
Lecture Hall Room 113<br>
Mat Schulze (Germanic and Slavic Studies): <br>
Cultural Encounter of the Language Kind: In the 3000-year history of
Indo-European languages, contact between ethnic groups has been the norm.
Violent or otherwise, such encounters resulted in what linguists call language
contact. The words borrowed from other languages provide fascinating
insight into the interacting and emergent European cultures. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Complete details at <a
href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301">www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301</a>.<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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