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<span style="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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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="line-height: 14.4pt;"><b>Lecture No. 1</b> </span><span style="line-height: 19px;">–</span><span style="line-height: 14.4pt;"> </span></font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;">Thursday</span></font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="line-height: 14.4pt;">,
6 March 2014, 7pm </span><span style="line-height: 19px;">–</span><span style="line-height: 14.4pt;"> HH 1102</span></font></div>
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<a href="http://german.duke.edu/people?subpage=profile&Gurl=/aas/German&Uil=annmarie.rasmussen" style="color: rgb(172, 97, 0);">ANN MARIE RASMUSSEN</a> | DUKE UNIVERSITY</p>
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WHY DO MEDIEVAL BADGES MATTER?</p>
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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.</p>
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<i style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Full details on all the lectures is available at </span></i><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/literary-studies-21st-century" style="color: purple; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px;">https://uwaterloo.ca/germanic-slavic-studies/events/literary-studies-21st-century</a></h2>
<div>For more information contact Prof. Grit Liebscher (<a href="mailto:gliebscher@uwaterloo.ca" style="color: purple;">gliebscher@uwaterloo.ca</a> / 519.888.4567, x35695)</div>
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