Lecture Series - Cultural Encounters / Encountering Cultures

[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 18 January 2009, 4:30pm, Arts Lecture Hall Room
113
Sheila Ager (Classical Studies):  
West meets East: Greeks, Persians, and the Birth of "Orientalism"

At the beginning of the fifth century BC, the Persian Empire sent two
expeditionary forces against Greece in an attempt to bring the Greeks under
their rule. These were the years of some of the most famous battles in
history: Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis. The Greek success in driving back
the Persian invaders was seen in later years as the most glorious moment in
all their history. It was also a springboard for the earliest examples we
have of the type of "orientalism" that is defined by western perceptions
that the West is superior to the East.

 

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

 

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