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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. 4</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;">,
3 April 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://www.mlcs.ualberta.ca/en/People/Faculty/HerrmannElisabeth.aspx" style="color: rgb(172, 97, 0);">ELISABETH HERRMANN</a> | UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA</p>
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HOW DOES TRANSNATIONALISM REDEFINE CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE? AN INVESTIGATION OF FIVE GERMAN AUTHORS</p>
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Using fictional works as well as theoretical reflections by authors of different (trans-)national backgrounds as examples – Ilija Trojanow, Christian Kracht, Felicitas Hoppe, Daniel Kehlmann, and Dan Vyleta – this talk will draft new concepts of literary mobility,
transnationalism, and world literature that will enable us to analyse the changing conditions and features of literature in times of globalization as well as to redefine the term “contemporary German literature” in the 21st century. </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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