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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>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Upcoming
lecture<b>: Monday 1 March 2009, 4:30pm, Arts Lecture Hall Room 113<br>
</b>Mario Boido<b> (Spanish and Latin American Studies)<br>
</b></span><span class=style15><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>"Our North is the South":
Politics, Identity, and the Latin American avant-garde</span></b></span><br>
<span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Around
the turn of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, avant-garde movements were pushing art
in new directions, rethinking issues of representation and problematizing their
relationship to art history. In Latin America, avant-garde artists returned
from the almost mandatory stay in Europe poised to create a truly Latin
American art. They looked to develop a visual language capable of expressing a
“true” (more inclusive and less eurocentric) Latin American
identity and to rewrite the art history of the region. In my lecture I will
focus on the artistic projects of two of the most influential artists of the
time, Xul Solar (Argentina, 1887-1963) and Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguay,
1874-1949), making reference also to the <i>Muralista </i>movement in Mexico
and the <i>Week of Modern Art</i> in Brazil. Looking at specific examples I
will discuss the visual language each artist developed in relation to the
question of identity as well as its political and art historical implications.
I will conclude with an analysis of how MERCOSUR (Common Market of the South)
has incorporated the cultural discourse of Latin American avant-garde art to
articulates its project of regional integration, especially through the Bienal
del Mercosur (biennial art exhibition) and TeleSur, Mercosur’s official
TV station.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>This
lecture addresses the topic of “Cultural Encounters – Encountering
Culture” in two important ways. In Latin America the question of identity
has deep roots in the clash of cultures that resulted from the conquest and
colonization of the “new world” by European powers, and the search
for a true expression of Latin American identity can be described as a process
of democratizing and renegotiating the relationships between the Amerindian,
the African, and the European cultural legacies of the region. At the same
time, MERCOSUR’s relationship to the Latin American avant-garde
highlights the important role the arts play in re-imagining social structures,
challenging established norms and questioning dominant values.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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 Radio Nacional in Argentina, but without the updates on Maradona’s
money and drug problems.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Interview with Andy McMurry (The Green and the Brown:
Sustainable versus Unsustainable Culture): <a
href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/mcmurry.html">http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/mcmurry.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<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>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>
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href="www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~skidmore">www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~skidmore</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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href="www.germanicandslavic.uwaterloo.ca">www.germanicandslavic.uwaterloo.ca</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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