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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">Join Dr. Alec Cattell (Texas Tech University)
</span>next<span style="color:black"> Thursday, March 17, 2022 for an interactive virtual discussion about Gertrud Kolmar's last surviving literary work, the novella <i>Susanna</i>.
</span></span><span style="color:black">This talk is part of the Dis/Ability in German Literature Lecture series o<span class="normaltextrun">rganized 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><br>
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<span class="normaltextrun">All talks are</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="normaltextrun"><b>free and open to the public</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="normaltextrun">and will be hosted on Zoom.
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<span class="normaltextrun"> </span><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/disability-german-literature-lecture-series" target="_blank" title="https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-german-studies/disability-german-literature-lecture-series"><span class="normaltextrun">Please
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<p class="paragraph" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="color:black">A life worthy of living: Kolmar's <i>Susanna</i><br>
<span class="normaltextrun">Speaker: </span></span></b><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">Alec Cattell (Texas Tech U)</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><b><span style="color:black"><br>
<span class="normaltextrun">When: </span></span></b><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">Thursday, March 17, 2022 (1:00-2:20pm EST)</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><br>
<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"> </span><br>
<span class="eop"><b><a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/a-life-worthy-of-living-kolmars-susanna-tickets-249330302647" title="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/a-life-worthy-of-living-kolmars-susanna-tickets-249330302647">Register for this talk</a></b></span><b><br>
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<span class="normaltextrun">Public Reading & Discussion on authorship & disability</span><span class="eop"> <br>
</span><span class="normaltextrun">Speaker: </span></b><span class="normaltextrun">Mercedes Spannagel
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</span><span class="normaltextrun"><b>When: </b>Thursday, March 31, 2022 (1:00-2:20 EST)</span><span class="eop"> <br>
</span><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 and discussion in German. </span><span class="eop"> </span><br>
<span class="eop"><b><a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/public-reading-discussion-on-authorship-disability-tickets-249337664667" title="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/public-reading-discussion-on-authorship-disability-tickets-249337664667">Register for this
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