Lecture Series - Cultural Encounters / Encountering Cultures: The Final Lecture

[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. 

 

Our upcoming lecture is also our last for the term!

Monday 22 March 2009, 4:30pm, Arts Lecture Hall Room 113
Gerd Hauck (Associate Professor and Chair of Drama)

Theatre at the Crossroads of Intermediality and Convention: Opportunities
for the Convergence of Theatre and the Digital Media 

This presentation deals with the points of intersection, or perhaps better,
points of tension (Spannungspunkte), which emerge when two distinctly
different modes of expression converge. I hope to focus on some of the
creative opportunities arising from these convergences as well as the impact
they have on the way in which we think about theatre as a mode of “cultural
encounter”.  I hope to assert that the emerging “intermedial” theatre
challenges many of our conventional assumptions about what constitutes a
theatrical experience, but provides, at the same time, a unique opportunity
to broaden and enrich our theatrical vocabulary and make it more vital for
the digital age.

 

Podcasts

After the lectures I conduct an interview with each presenter.  These
conversations are available as online podcasts.  (The interview with Prof.
Hauck should be available by 26 March.)  

 

Interview with Ken Coates (The Other Side of the Frontier: Indigenous
Encounters with Newcomers):
http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301/coates.html 

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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