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<p class="paragraph" style="margin:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><b>Dis/Ability in German Literature – Lecture Series<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun">This series of four talks focuses on Dis/Ability Studies both within and beyond German Studies. Organized by Professor Michael Boehringer as part of his Disability in
German Literature course, the presentations cover critical disability studies, myths and rhetorics of disability, German literature, and a public reading and discussion.</span><span class="scxw72127159"> </span><br>
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<span class="normaltextrun">All talks are <b>free and open to the public</b> and will be hosted on Zoom. See below for dates and a short description of each talk.<br>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/disability-german-literature-lecture-series" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">Please
see our website for more information and to register.</span></span></a></span><span class="normaltextrun">
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<span class="normaltextrun">If you have any questions, please contact WCGS Administrative Assistant, Misty Matthews-Roper (</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:wcgs@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">wcgs@uwaterloo.ca</span></span></a></span><span class="normaltextrun">).
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><span style="color:black">Critical Disability Studies: The Intersections of Theory and Lived Experience</span></b></span><span class="eop"><b><span style="color:black"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b>Speaker:</b> Halina (Lin) Haag (MSW, RSW) (WLU)</span><span class="eop"> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b>When: </b>Thursday, January 20, 2022 (11:30-12:50 pm EST)</span><span class="eop"> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b>Event Info: </b>This talk will focus on the epistemological and theoretical foundations of Disability Studies, its pathway to current approaches in research and scholarship, and the implications of those conceptualizations on
the lived experiences of people with different abilities. </span><span class="eop"> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><span style="color:black">Disability Myths and Rhetorics</span></b></span><span class="eop"><b><span style="color:black"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b>Speaker: </b>Jay Dolmage (UW)</span><span class="eop"> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b>When: </b>Thursday, February 3, 2022 (1:00-2:20pm EST)</span><span class="eop"> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b>Event Info: </b>In this discussion, Dr. Dolmage will work through an overview of myths that offer a shorthand for the ways that disability is narrowly represented or depicted across cultures. These myths offer evidence of some
of the most basic and omnipresent ways that disability is rhetorically shaped. Laying out these disability wrongs generates a range of possible awareness, critical tools, and disruptions. The fact that disability is so naturally and habitually associated with
negativity means that we cannot neglect to question these natural habits, and we cannot forget that the pause, reflection, and reconsideration we might engender will themselves be critical and creative opportunities. The discussion should lead us to identify
further examples of such myths and to challenge them.</span><span class="eop"> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>A life worthy of living: Kolmar's <i>Susanna</i><br>
<span class="normaltextrun">Speaker: </span></b><span class="normaltextrun">Alec Cattell (Texas Tech U)</span><span class="eop"> </span><b><br>
<span class="normaltextrun">When: </span></b><span class="normaltextrun">Thursday, March 17, 2022 (1:00-2:20pm EST)</span><span class="eop"> <br>
</span><span class="normaltextrun"><b>Event Info: </b>Join Dr. Alec Cattell (Texas Tech University) for an interactive virtual discussion about Gertrud Kolmar's last surviving literary work, the novella <i>Susanna</i>. After exploring the social and political
context in which <i>Susanna </i>was written, the conversation will turn to Kolmar's mode of representing the protagonist as a person with a disability as well as the ways in which she negotiates disability myths and deploys disability rhetorics to inspire
readers to read stories about disability ethically.</span><span class="eop"> <br>
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<p class="paragraph" style="margin:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span style="color:black">Public Reading & Discussion on authorship & disability</span></b></span><span class="eop"><b><span style="color:black"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b>Speaker: </b>Mercedes Spannagel </span><span class="eop"> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b>When: </b>Thursday, March 31, 2022 (1:00-2:20 EST)</span><span class="eop"> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b>Event Info: </b>"Wie es klingt, wenn es quietscht". Prize-winning short story by Austrian author Mercedes Spannagel about young competitive fencers, one of whom has lost a leg and is resuming her training with a prosthesis. Reading
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