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<font size="+1">Please join us for a talk by Dr. Michael Ott,
University of Heidelberg, on Friday, March 31, 2017, 9:30 a.m. at
St. Jerome's University, room 3020 "The Boardroom".</font><br>
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<font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color="#263e0f">This
talk grows out of the University of Heidelberg <span class=""
style="orphans:2; widows:2; background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><font
class="">Collaborative Research Centre 933 (CRC 933), in which
faculty-led research groups from different disciplines examine
script-bearing artefacts such as pillars, steles, portals,
tombstones, potsherds, amulets, scrolls, papyri, and parchment
codices in order to examine the specific materiality and the
evoked presence of the inscribed artefacts and the written
texts themselves. I will talk about the research being
undertaken in the research group to which I
belong, “Inscriptionality: Reflections of Material Text
Culture in the Literature of the Twelfth to
Seventh-Centuries,” </font></span><span class=""
style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);">which is examining
medieval representations of fictional inscription on
script-bearing artefacts in literary fiction. I am focussing on
writing featured or imagined in </span><span class=""
style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);">alternative places
and materials such as trees, dog leashes, and so on. These
extraordinary forms of writing reveal medieval knowledge of the
practices and conditions of writing and they allow modern
scholars to to reflect in historically appropriate theoretical
terms on the potentials and limitations of the technology of
writing.<br>
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</span></font><font class="" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Dr.
Michael Ott received his PhD in medieval German Literature from
the University of Frankfurt and is currently a research fellow and
instructor in the Department of Medieval German Studies at the
University of Heidelberg, Germany, where he is also a research
associate in the project <span class="" style="background-color:
rgb(253, 253, 253);">
“Inscriptionality: Reflections of Material Text Culture in the
Literature of the Twelfth to Seventh-Centuries.” He is a guest
researcher in UW's Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
until May.</span></font><br>
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Janet Vaughan
Administrative Assistant and Graduate Coordinator
University of Waterloo
Germanic and Slavic Studies (ML 220)
519-888-4567, ext. 32428</pre>
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