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<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333">2013 Studies in Islam Speaker Series<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#0070C0">Islam at the Foundations of Western Society: How Medieval Islam Shaped the Modern World</span></strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333">Professor Steven Bednarski,
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<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333">St. Jerome’s University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333">A social historian of medieval crime and gender, Bednarski works on criminal records from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to see how ordinary people lived, laughed, loved, and
loathed. His first book, entitled Curia: A Social History of a Provencal Criminal Court in the Fourteenth Century tells tales of naughty townsmen and nasty knights.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN" style="color:#333333">Wednesday, March 20, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN" style="color:#333333">Renison University College, Dunker Family Lounge, 240 Westmount Rd. N., Waterloo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN" style="color:#333333">Free parking, light refreshments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN" style="color:#333333">For more information or to register:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN" style="color:#333333">uwaterloo.ca/renison/si-speaker-series,
<a href="mailto:ipandit@uwaterloo.ca">ipandit@uwaterloo.ca</a> or 519-884-4404 ext. 28668<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Poster:
<a href="http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/sites/ca.arts/files/eventposters/2013-03-20-SIlecture-final%20(2).pdf">
http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/sites/ca.arts/files/eventposters/2013-03-20-SIlecture-final%20(2).pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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