Dept.
of Comparative Literature Colloquium Series, Spring 2008
Beginning this
year and hopefully to continue indefinitely, the goal of this series is to
provide a forum for new work by graduate students and faculty—including
dissertation chapters, conference papers, book projects, and the like.
The loci of the series, however, are the constantly shifting theoretical and
bureaucratic parameters of our discipline. With any luck, the discussions will
provide insights into what it means, has meant, and will mean to do comparative
literature.
10/12/08
Professors Timothy Reiss and Daniel Javitch
“What We Were Thinking: Two Decades
of Comparative Literature at NYU.”
Friday, October 12,
2:00-4:00 pm
Timothy
Reiss is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, and Daniel Javitch is a
Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian.
11/09/08 Professor Jacques Lezra
“The Indecisive Muse, a
Conversation on Borges, Wittgenstein, Translation, and Comparative Literature.”
Friday, November 9,
2:00-4:00 pm
Jacques Lezra is a Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish
& Portuguese Languages & Literatures
12/07/08 Fernando Perez and Robyn Creswell
“Modernism: Singular or Plural?”
Friday, December 7,
2:00-4:00 pm
1/25/08 Haytham Bahoora
"Jabra's
Friday, January 25,
2:00-4:00 pm
13-19University Pl, Great
Room
2/22/08 Professor Hala Halim
"On 'The
Friday, February 22,
1:00-3:00 pm
Hala Halim is an Asst.
Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern &
Islamic Studies.
3/7/08 Brad Tabas and Bregtje Hartendorf-Wallach
"On the Moral Authority of
Nature."
Friday, March 7,
2:00-4:00pm
4/4/08 Professor Jini K Watson
"Ruling Like a Foreigner:
Third World Authoritarianism and Mass Culture"
Friday, April 4, 2:00-4:00
pm
13-19 University Place, Room 222
Jini K. Watson is an
Asst. Professor of English.
5/2/08 Ipek Celik and Jennifer Cayer
"Ethnography and
Representation."
Friday, May 2, 2:00-4:00
pm