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 15 March 2009, 4:30pm, Arts Lecture Hall Room 113
Ken Coates (Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts)

The Other Side of the Frontier: Indigenous Encounters with Newcomers 

They were strange peoples, with odd personal habits, unusual dress,
seemingly innate aggression, a powerful God, and a limited ability to live
off the land. To the indigenous peoples around the world, the
technologically impressive Europeans were not as awe-inspiring in many other
respects and, in some instances, generated more revulsion than admiration.
Most discussions of the native-newcomer relationship focuses on how
Europeans viewed Aboriginal people and cultures. The other side of this
relationship - the images and impressions that Indigenous populations had of
the Europeans - is equally important. Cultural contact flows in both
directions. Appreciating the Indigenous perspective is crucial to any
attempt to understanding the complexity of subsequent Native-newcomer
relations. This lecture repositions the historical camera and seeks to
demonstrate the fundamental necessity of appreciating how Aboriginal people
viewed the newcomers at the early stages of contact.

 

Podcasts

After the lectures I conduct an interview with each presenter.  These
conversations are available as online podcasts – it’s like CBC’s Northern
Service, but without the Dempster Highway weather updates.

 

Interview with François Paré (Minorities and Globalization: An Ecology of
Cultural Encounters):  http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/pare.html

Interview with Mario Boido (“Our North is the South”: Politics, Identity,
and the Latin American avant-garde”):
http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/boido.html 

Interview with Andy McMurry (The Green and the Brown: Sustainable versus
Unsustainable Culture):  http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/mcmurry.html 

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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