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Lectures and Events of Interest to Comparative Literature
Comp Lit faculty and student participants are in bold
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2009-2010 |
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Departmental Highlights |
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2009-2010 Graduate Student Colloquium
COMPARATORIUM
Horizons of Translation Lecture Series
Fall 2009
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Comparative Approaches to Middle Eastern Literatures
A lecture series organized by the Arabic Literature Colloquium
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Early Modernities Lecture Series
Fall 2009
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September 10th |
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Film Screening
The Right to Philosophy: Traces of the International College of Philosophy
This is a documentary film on the College International de Philosophie (CIPH) founded by Jacques Derrida in Paris.What are the possibilities for the humanities now, under current conditionsof global capitalism? What is the relationship between philosophy and academic institutions, and what is the meaning of interdisciplinarity now?
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Yuji Nishiyama, the filmmaker, (Professor at the University of Tokyo, Center for Philosophy) will take questions after the film. Discussion moderated by Thomas Looser and Yuji Nishiyama.
Department of East Asian Studies 715 Broadway, room 312
4:00pm
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Comp Lit Welcome Back Party!!!
Jaques' Apartment
6-8 p.m.
All CL faculty, students, and friends are invited to kick off our new year! |
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September 15th |
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The Modern Language Initiave: A Panel
A presentation of the new Andrew W. Mellon Program supporting the publication of scholarly works about linguistic cultural productions in languages other than English, and a discussion of first-book publication in the Humanities, in non-Anglophone fields.
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Discussants:
Helen Tartar, Editorial Director, Fordham University Press
Jerome Singerman, Senior Editor, University of Pennsylvania Press
Catherine Porter, President, Modern Language Association, and Professor
Emerita of French at SUNY Cortland
Jacques Lezra, Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and Spanish
& Portuguese; Chair, Comparative Literature, New York University
Mary Louise Pratt, Silver Professor; Professor of Social and Cultural
Analysis, Spanish & Portuguese, New York University
Richard Sieburth, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, New York University |
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September 16th |
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Horizons of Translation Lecture Series
Showcasing the strengths in translation studies of NYU’s Department of Comparative Literature and drawing into dialogue specialists in the subject from other universities, the series is designed to address the growing centrality of translation – as practice and as metaphor – to a variety of fields and theories.
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This interdisciplinary series brings a range of perspectives on translating theory and philosophy, on genre-specific questions, on translation and conflict, on transnational “translational” literature, among others. The regions highlighted are Latin America, the USA, Europe, and the Arab world. For further information, please e-mail series organizer Hala Halim (hh47@nyu.edu). |
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Hala Halim: introductory remarks
Jacques Lezra& Emily Apter:“‘Untranslatables’ in Philosophy & Literature”
Jane Tylus (NYU): respondent
Deutsches Haus. 42 Washington Mews
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September 18th |
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Colloquium Opening Session:“On Political Philosophy and Literature”
Sibylle Fischer: “The Abstract Nakedness of Being Human”
Jaques Lezra: “The Public Option”
Great Room 13-19UP
2 – 4 p.m. |
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September 23rd |
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Horizons of Translation Lecture Series
Richard Sieburth: "Ensemble discords: On Translating the Music of Sceve's Delié"
Great Room 13-19UP
6 p.m.
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September 24th |
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Please join Archipelago Books and translator Richard Sieburth for a reading and book launch of Gérard de Nerval's "The Salt Smugglers."
Idlewild Books
12 w. 19th St. Manhattan
7-9 p.m.
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September 25th-26th |
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Inside Out: A Workshop on Projection
The workshop will discuss elements of the concept of projection ranging from the rection of authority, via concepts of depth and evil, racism and hatred, to questions of media theory. Presenters include Professors Bronfen, Fleming, Geisenhanslueke, von Herrmann, von Koppenfels, Muelder-Bach, Ronell, and Zizek. You will find the full schedule of events listed on the flyer. |
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September 28th |
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Comparative Approaches to Middle Eastern Literatures:
A lecture series organized by the Arabic Literature Colloquium
Kamran Rastegar (Assistant Professor of Arabic, Tufts): "Surviving Images: War, Memory and Trauma in Lebanese and Iranian Cinemas"
Hagop Kevorkian Center Library
5-7 p.m.
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October 2nd |
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Music, Language, Thought: A Third Interdisciplinary Event
Co-sponsered by NYU's Music and Comparative Literature Departments
Session I (12:00 - 3:00):
Maureen McLane (NYU): "Border Trouble: or, Ballad Mediality and 'World Literature'"
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David Samuels (NYU): "Who Invented Music and Language?"
Session II (4:00 - 7:00):
Carolyn Abbate (University of Pennsylvania): "Overlooking the Ephemeral"
Fred Moten (Duke University): "Jurisgenerative Grammar (_For Alto_)"
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October 8th |
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The Gallatin School of Individualized Study presents: Lectures in Political Theory
This lecture series features scholars who re-imagine the meaning and practice of politics by reworking the tradition of political theory. Each speaker will demonstrate different aspects of political theory as a distinctive critical practice, partly by exploring how the vocabulary of political theory can be used to cross disciplinary boundaries and illuminate contemporary issues. The goal of the series is to see how it is possible to reconstruct and use the legacy of a canon that is often reified and confined to the past.
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Jason Frank (Cornell University) - "Promiscuous Citizenship”
Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts,
entrance at 1 Washington Place
5:30-7 p.m. |
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October 12th |
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Comparative Approaches to Middle Eastern Literatures:
A lecture series organized by the Arabic Literature Colloquium
Michael Beard (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Dakota):"A Letter Named Jīm"
1st Floor Great Room, 19 University Place
5-7 p.m.
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October 14th |
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Horizons of Translation Lecture Series
Rosemary Arrojo (SUNY Binghamton): “Representations of Translation in Latin American Fiction: Rodolfo Walsh, Moacyr Scliar, and theSubverted Space of the Translator's Footnotes”
19 UP, Room 222
6 p.m. |
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October 16th |
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Colloquium: Student Research
Ellen Xiang He; Pu Wang, respondent
Draper Conference Room
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
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October 19th |
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NYU CLACS presents: Cuba: History Culture Revolution
This speaker series presents important new work on Cuban history, literature, and culture from scholars in the United States, Cuba, and Spain.
Coordintaors: Ada Ferrer and Ana Dopico
Ned Sublette: "Cuban Music: A Post Mamboist Perspective"
King Juan Carlos Center
4-6 p.m.
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Early Modernities Lecture Series
Anthony Cascardi (UC, Berkeley):"Free Speech? Cervantesand the Discourse of Politics"
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
6-8 p.m.
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October 22nd |
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Horizons of Translation Lecture Series
Wail Hassan (U. of Illinois): "From Literature in Translation to TranslationalLiterature: Ahdaf Soueif and the Politics of Writingin English"
Great Room 13-19UP
6 p.m.
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October 27th |
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The Institute of African Affairs at NYU presents: One World in Relation
Four conversations with Édouard Glissant
Opacity, Stupidity and the History Unitelligibility: The Right to Opacity as a Prerequisite for Politics and Philosophy
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Panelists: Avital Ronell, Francois Noudelmann, Joan Retallack, Sylvere Lotringer, Tracie Morris, Manthia Diawara and Denis Hollier (Moderators)
Kimmel Center, Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th Floor, 60 Washington Sqaure South
6:30 p.m.
Please RSVP at (212-998-IAAA (4222)
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Early Modernities Lecture Series
Lina Bolzoni (NYU):"Ginevra de' Benci: un ritratto doppio fra Leonardo e Bembo"
24 W. 12th Street (Casa Italiana)
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Reception to follow |
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October 28th |
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NYU Postcolonial Colloquium
Mary Louise Pratt - "'When we got here the Indians had already left': Postcoliniality and the Indigenous"
19 University Place, Room 222
6:30
Refreshments to follow
To be added to the listserv or for more information, please contact Shirley Wong
nyupoco.com
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October 30th |
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Comparative Approaches to Middle Eastern Literatures:
A lecture series organized by the Arabic Literature Colloquium
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw (Lecturer in Persian Studies and Iranian Literature, University of Manchester):"A Genre Without Borders? The Arabic Ghazal and its Persian Cousin"
Hagop Kevorkian Center Library
12:30-1:45 p.m. |
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November 4th |
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The Institute of African Affairs at NYU presents: One World in Relation
Four conversations with Édouard Glissant
Diversity in the Black Night: Chaos, Créolization, and Metissage
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Panelists: Michael Dash, Ulrich Baer, Patricia Williams,Kendall Thomas, Arjun Appadurai, Manthia Diawara and Judith Miller (Moderators)
Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street
6:30 p.m.
Please RSVP at (212-998-IAAA (4222)
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November 6th |
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"Rancière's Nineteenth Century"
A Panel Discussion For Rethinking Nineteenth-Century French Studies
The second event in a series on “New French Philosophy.” Co-sponsored by the Department of French and The Humanities Initiative.
Bruno Bosteels (Cornell University)
Patrick Bray (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Bettina Lerner (CUNY, City College)
Gabriel Rockhill (Villanova University; director, Atelier de Théorie Critique, Paris)
Emily Apter, moderator
La Maison Française, 16 Washington Mews
5-7 p.m
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November 9th |
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The Gallatin School of Individualized Study presents: Lectures in Political Theory
In this lecture, Bonnie Honig will look at the promise and limits of mourning and lamentation for democratic politics, by a reading of Sophocles’ Antigone, the classical tragedy that has played a key role in philosophy as well as political and feminist theory.
Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts,
entrance at 1 Washington Place
5:30-7 p.m.
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November 11th |
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Horizons of Translation Lecture Series
Roger Allen (Penn): "The Happy Traitor: Tales of Translation"
Great Room 13-19UP
6 p.m. |
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November 16th |
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Comparative Approaches to Middle Eastern Literatures:
A lecture series organized by the Arabic Literature Colloquium
Abdelfattah Kilito (Professor of French and Arabic Literature, Université Mohammed V, Rabat):"Thou Shalt Not Translate Me"
1st Floor Great Room, 19 University Place
4-6 p.m. |
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November 17th |
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The Program in Poetics & Theory and the Department of Comparative Literature are pleased to present:
Kathrin Thiele on Deleuze, Badiou, and Politics: ’to believe in this world, as it is…': The Difficult Quest ofImmanence in Politics
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Kathrin Thiele is Assistant Professor for Political Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, University Potsdam, and Coordinator of the interdisciplinary DFG Graduate Program‚ "Lebensformen und Lebenswissen," Europe-University Viadrina/University Potsdam. Her most recent publications are The Thought of Becoming. Gilles Deleuze’s Poetics ofLife, Berlin 2008; and (co-edited with Katrin Trüstedt) HAPPY DAYS Lebenswissen nach Cavell, München 2009.
Silver Center, room 220 (in Dept. of Music; enter at 32 Waverly Pl.)
6:30 p.m. |
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November 18th |
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The Institute of African Affairs at NYU presents: One World in Relation
Four conversations with Édouard Glissant
Roots & Imaginary Offshoots: Ecstatic Difference
Panel: Theory of "Relation and Difference"
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Panelists include: Francois Noudelmann, Mary Ann Caws, Breyten Breytenbach, Fred Moten, Emily Apter, Manthia Diawara and Avital Ronell (Moderators)
Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street
6:30 p.m.
Please RSVP at (212-998-IAAA (4222)
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November 20th |
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Early Modernities Lecture Series
Ayesha Ramachandran (SUNY,Stony Brook):"Worldmaking and the Project of Modernity"
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
2-4 p.m.
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Colloquium: "The Art World"
Draper Conference Room
1:30 – 4:30 p.m. |
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November 30th |
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The Institute of African Affairs at NYU presents: One World in Relation
Four conversations with Édouard Glissant
De-capitalization and the Way of the World: Religion, Secularism and Multiplicity
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Panelists: Richard Sennett, Avital Ronell, Francois Noudelmann, Craig Calhoun, Arjun Apadurai, Manthia Diawara and Avital Ronell (Moderators)
Kimel Center, Room 914-Silver, 60 Washington Sqaure South
6:30 p.m.
Please RSVP at (212-998-IAAA (4222)
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December 3rd |
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Horizons of Translation Lecture Series
William Granara (Harvard) : "Translation, Cultural Conflict, and the Literary Text"
Deutsches Haus . 42 Washington Mews
6 p.m. |
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Early Modernities Lecture Series
Elizabeth Bearden (University of Maryland):"Romance Ekphrasis: A Language of Sociability"
19 University Place, Room 222
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Light reception 6-6:30 |
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December 7th |
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The Gallatin School of Individualized Study presents: Lectures in Political Theory
In this lecture, Melissa Orlie will draw on the political theory conversation among political theorists about freedom to craft a radical analysis of the current environmental crisis. |
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December 9 |
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Early Modernities Lecture Series
Graham Hammill (University of Buffalo):"Marvell's Machiavellian Moment: Sexuality and Constituent Power"
19 University Place, Room 102
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Reception to follow |
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December 11th |
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Colloquium
Mikhail Iampolski
Draper Conference Room
1:30 – 4:30 p.m. |
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JANUARY |
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February 1 |
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The Gallatin School of Individualized Study presents: Lectures in Political Theory
In this lecture, Robert Gooding-Williams will address the racial silence of the political theory canon by reading Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois as political theorists whose analyses of race and nation reconfigure how we understand politics.
Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts,
entrance at 1 Washington Place
5:30-7 p.m. |
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