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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies announces it</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">s</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
Diefenbaker Lecture Series with five exciting talks in March and April, spanning from medieval badges to romantic cinema. These lectures are being held in conjunction with the search for the next holder of the Diefenbaker Memorial Chair in German Literary
Studies. Please see the first two lectures below and go here to see the others:
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/literary-studies-21st-century">https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/literary-studies-21st-century</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">2014 Diefenbaker Lecture Series: Literary Studies in the 21st Century<br>
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The Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies is home of the Diefenbaker Memorial Chair in German Literary Studies. In March and April five leading scholars will explore how literary studies can fulfill the expectations of an academic discipline and connect
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Lecture No. 1</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> – </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Thursday</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">,
6 March 2014, 7pm – HH 1102</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://german.duke.edu/people?subpage=profile&Gurl=/aas/German&Uil=annmarie.rasmussen"><span style="color:#AC6100">ANN MARIE RASMUSSEN</span></a> | DUKE UNIVERSITY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">WHY DO MEDIEVAL BADGES MATTER?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Medieval badges are small, cheap, mass-produced, lead-alloy objects meant to be worn, were sold throughout the high and late Middle Ages, and produced between the late twelfth century and the Reformation.
Closer study reveals that medieval badges are not merely souvenirs, visual representations, or signs. Rather, they imagine the relationships between self and world in unexpected ways and they are best understood as an early form of media. I will offer thoughts
about the impact of modern technologies and approaches on medieval studies and about the connection between the historical past and the present moment. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Lecture No. 2</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> – </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Thursday</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">,
13 March 2014, 7pm – HH 1102</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://ies.ubc.ca/gaby-pailer"><span style="color:#AC6100">GABY PAILER</span></a> | UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">THE (MELO-)DRAMA OF THE ‘FAIR JEWESS’: RE-FRAMING SIR WALTER SCOTT’S IVANHOE (1819) IN FANNY LEWALD’S JENNY (1843)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Literary Studies deal with the long meanders of intellectual (world) history and inquire why mechanisms of political, social and cultural injustice are still reiterated in the 21st century. Walter Benjamin’s
‘Angel of History,’ who sees rubble piling up sky-high where an historicist view would build a progressive plot, reminds us to envisage remnants of the past and notions of the future without essentializing. Focusing on Jewish heroines torn between jousting
crusaders in two 19th century novels, I’ll show how Lewald re-frames Scott’s medieval melodramatic plot of race, gender and nation-building as a modern quest for Jewish and women’s emancipation in pre-national Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2 style="line-height:14.4pt"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Full details on all the lectures is available at </span></i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#444444"><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/literary-studies-21st-century"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/literary-studies-21st-century</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">For more information contact Prof. Grit Liebscher (<a href="mailto:gliebscher@uwaterloo.ca">gliebscher@uwaterloo.ca</a> / 519.888.4567, x35695)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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