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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. 3 </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;">,
20 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://language.iastate.edu/directory/faculty-and-staff/german-faculty/kevin-amidon-ph-d/" style="color: rgb(172, 97, 0);">KEVIN S. AMIDON</a> | IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY</p>
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TARRYING WITH THE POSITIVE, OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND TEACH LITERATURE</p>
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Are Western forms of representative government and civil society in decline? Possibly due to a decline of reading? I claim that the two major models of Western post-Enlightenment political-economic subjectivity — the liberal-autonomous and the Marxist-class-conscious
— no longer adequately ground arguments about either politics or culture. Ongoing developments in the relationships between texts, individuals, and groups relate more significantly to shifts in subjective understanding than they do to technological change.
Texts remain technologically and economically mediated artifacts of the relationships between individuals and institutions, and retain their power to teach us about ourselves. </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 are 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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