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Events listed below are either sponsored/cosponsored by the department, or are events in which our students and/or faculty are participants.

CURRENT EVENTS FOR 2008-2009

For the year-long 2008-09 Comparative Literature Colloquium, see http://comparatorium.wordpress.com/

SEPTEMBER

September 3
Comp Lit Welcome Back Party!
4-6:00
Casa Italiana (24 W. 12th Street)
All CL faculty & students invited!

September 12
2008-09 Comparative Literature Colloquium
Nancy Ruttenburg (Professor, Comparative Literature)
“Conscience, Rights, and the Delirium of Democracy”

September 26
Accessorizing the Renaissance Body
Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
715 Broadway
http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/sdk248/celce/2008/09/accessorizing_the_renaissance.html

OCTOBER

October 3
2008-09 Comparative Literature Colloquium
Paul North (Faculty Fellow, German)
“The Ideal of the Problem: Walter Benjamin’s Art-Critical Theory”
Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz (Doctoral Candidate, Comparative Literature), respondent

NOVEMBER

November 7
2008-09 Comparative Literature Colloquium
Patrick Gallagher (Doctoral Candidate, Comparative Literature) and Brendan Beirne (Doctoral Candidate, English)
“The Sober Postmodern”

November 13-15
Conference: DISCOURSES OF REPUBLICANISM
Poetics and Theory Program
New York University

DECEMBER

December 5
2008-09 Comparative Literature Colloquium
Dissertations in Progress:
Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz (Comparative Literature), “After Burke: Late Empiricism and Romantic Sovereignty”
Beata Potocki (Comparative Literature), “Militant Withdrawals: Aesthetics of Impersonality in the French and Algerian Novel, 1950-1970s”
Michiel Bot (Comparative Literature), respondent

JANUARY

January 23
2008-09 Comparative Literature Colloquium
Kristin Ross (Professor, Comparative Literature)
Title: TBA

FEBRUARY

February 27
2008-09 Comparative Literature Colloquium
Dissertations in Progress:
Michiel Bot (Comparative Literature)
“The Right to Offend”
Joy Connolly (Associate Professor, Classics), respondent


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