New fables for a New World: Guest lecture by Dr. Inci Bozkaya

Friday, September 29, 2017 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Join us in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies for a fascinating public lecture!

In 1548 Burkard Waldis published his version of an Aesopian Fable collection. The title promises Aesopian fables “completely renewed” with a hundred “new fables” never published before. What the ‘new’ entails is never established by the author, but an analysis of the text shows that it challenges our modern understanding of the fable. Waldis presents tales that follow a typical fable format: short little stories with animals followed by a short sentence with a moral lesson.

Waldis's fables, however, are forward-looking: they deal with the implications of new technologies and new social ideas as the world passes from the medieval into the modern era.

Our guest lecturer Inci Bozkaya is a research assistant at the University of Mannheim, in Germany, and specializes in Medieval Studies.

This free public lecture is cosponsored by The Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, Medieval Studies, and the St. Jerome's University D.R.A.G.E.N. Lab.

For more information, please contact Ann Marie Rasmussen, or check out the event page at the Waterloo Centre for German Studies.