Lecture Series - Cultural Encounters / Encountering Cultures. Now with More 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:  TODAY Monday 22 February 2009, 4:30pm, Arts Lecture Hall
Room 113
Andrew McMurry (English)
The Green and the Brown: Sustainable versus Unsustainable Culture
This lecture presents, for purposes of clarity, a diagrammatic look at
Modernity as the struggle between a dominant growth culture and its
(steady-state) discontents. (So far pro-growth is winning!) I trace the
vagaries of the "progress" metaphor through the lens of literary history,
particularly the work of English-language writers such as Thoreau, John
Muir, and Rachel Carson (though these are simply placeholders of a more
robust set). The point of the lecture is to disentangle from the words of
these exemplars the glimmerings of an alternative perspective on the nature
(and chances) of long-term human residency on the planet.


Podcasts

After the lectures I conduct an interview with each presenters.  These
conversations are available as online podcasts - it's like NPR, but without
the fundraising drives.

 

Interview with Joan Coutu (Seeing from Afar: "Orientalism" and
Nineteenth-century Art): http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/coutu.html 

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 

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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