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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#C00000'>Cultural Encounters / Encountering
Cultures<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<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>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Join your Faculty of Arts colleagues as they explore the
interaction of societies and cultures. <o:p></o:p></p>
<h4><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Upcoming
lecture</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
font-weight:normal'>: Monday 1 February 2009, 4:30pm, Arts Lecture Hall
Room 113<br>
</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>David
John</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
font-weight:normal'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
font-weight:normal'>(Germanic and Slavic Studies): <br>
</span><span class=style15><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The
Legend of Faust as a Mirror of European Culture and an Example of Cultural
Transfer<br>
</span></span><span style='color:black;font-weight:normal'> </span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;
font-weight:normal'>“Faust” is a name likely familiar to anyone in
western culture who has enjoyed a broad education, even if their sense of the
person to whom it refers may be vague. The figure has been prominent in many
artistic forms for centuries, the graphic arts, music, opera, drama, prose,
musicals, rock operas, and even comics. Central to Faust depictions is always
the story of a man, occasionally a woman, who questions the fundamental meaning
of life and strives to make sense of it. Yet Faust was also an historical
person who lived in Renaissance Germany about the time of the Protestant
Reformation. The representations of his life and ambitions that have come down
to our own time are hence a mixture of fact, legend, and fantasy which
continues to fascinate and offer meaning for a wide variety of people.<br>
With many visual examples, the lecture will trace the tale of Faust from its
Germanic beginnings and connections to European humanistic thought
(Marlowe’s drama in England, folk legends in Germany), to its artistic
high point in the form of a two-part tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
written in Germany between 1780 and 1832. Using examples of its staging in many
cultures, including German, American, Canadian, Chinese, Egyptian, Filipino,
Indian, Japanese, and others, it will show how Faust’s original
predicament expanded to become a timeless and intercultural investigation into
the human comedy.<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#C00000'>Podcasts<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>After the lectures I conduct an interview with each presenters.
These conversations are available as online podcasts – it’s like
CBC Radio One, but without a really good announcer!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Interview with Altay Coskun (Were the Romans Generous in
Conveying their Citizenship?): <a
href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/coskun.html">http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/coskun.html</a>
(coming very soon!)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Interview with Sheila Ager (West meets East: Greeks, Persians,
and the Birth of "Orientalism"): <a
href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/ager.html">http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/ager.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Interview with Mat Schulze (Cultural Encounter of the
Language Kind): <a href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/schulze.html">http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/schulze.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<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>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<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>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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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