Lecture Series - Cultural Encounters / Encountering Cultures. Now with Podcasts!

[James M. Skidmore]

Cultural Encounters / Encountering Cultures

 

A series of ten public lectures by members of the Faculty of Arts at the
University of Waterloo

Winter Term 2010 – Mondays at 4:30pm – Arts Lecture Hall Room 113

 

Join your Faculty of Arts colleagues as they explore the interaction of
societies and cultures. 


Upcoming lecture:  Monday 8 February 2009, 4:30pm, Arts Lecture Hall Room
113
Joan Coutu (Fine Arts):  
Seeing from Afar: "Orientalism" and Nineteenth-century Art
This lecture will explore the idea of ‘the other’ in nineteenth-century art,
with a particular emphasis on French painting. The investigation will be
twofold: examining artists’ depictions of the ‘other’ within the context of
nineteenth-century imperialism, and artists’ adoption of non-European
painting techniques. Some of the artists that will be discussed include
J.A.D. Ingres, Eugène Delacroix, Jean-Lèon Gérôme and Edouard Manet.



Podcasts

After the lectures I conduct an interview with each presenters.  These
conversations are available as online podcasts – it’s like the BBC, but
without reference to the Queen!

 

Interview with David G. John (The Legend of Faust as a Mirror of European
Culture and an Example of Cultural Transfer):
http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/john.html (coming soon!)

Interview with Altay Coskun (Were the Romans Generous in Conveying their
Citizenship?): http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/coskun.html 

Interview with Sheila Ager (West meets East: Greeks, Persians, and the Birth
of "Orientalism"): http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/ager.html

Interview with Mat Schulze (Cultural Encounter of the Language Kind):
http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/schulze.html

 

 

Complete details at www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301.

 

 

James M. Skidmore

Chair of the Dept. of Germanic & Slavic Studies

Faculty of Arts / University of Waterloo

Waterloo, ON  N2L 3G1  CANADA

 

E | skidmore at uwaterloo.ca

W | www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~skidmore

W | www.germanicandslavic.uwaterloo.ca

T | 519.888.4567, x33687

F | 519.746.5243

 

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