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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#C00000'>Cultural Encounters /
Encountering Cultures<o:p></o:p></span></b></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>
<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'>: </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"'>TODAY</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'> Monday 22 February 2009, 4:30pm,
Arts Lecture Hall Room 113<br>
</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Andrew
McMurry</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
font-weight:normal'> (English)<br>
</span><span class=style15><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:black'>The Green and the Brown: Sustainable versus Unsustainable Culture</span></span><span
class=style15><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:black'><br>
</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:black;font-weight:normal'>This lecture presents, for purposes of clarity,
a diagrammatic look at Modernity as the struggle between a dominant growth
culture and its (steady-state) discontents. (So far pro-growth is winning!) I
trace the vagaries of the “progress” metaphor through the lens of
literary history, particularly the work of English-language writers such as
Thoreau, John Muir, and Rachel Carson (though these are simply placeholders of
a more robust set). The point of the lecture is to disentangle from the words
of these exemplars the glimmerings of an alternative perspective on the nature
(and chances) of long-term human residency on the planet.</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#C00000'>Podcasts</span></b><b><span
style='color:#C00000'><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 NPR, but without the fundraising drives.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Interview with Joan Coutu (<span class=style15><span
style='color:black'>Seeing from Afar: "Orientalism" and
Nineteenth-century Art): <a
href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/coutu.html">http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/coutu.html</a>
</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Interview with David G. John (<span class=style15><span
style='color:black'>The Legend of Faust as a Mirror of European Culture and an
Example of Cultural Transfer): <a
href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/john.html">http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/john.html</a>
</span></span><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>
<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>
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<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>
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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>
<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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