Past Events
Spring 2009
Reading World Literature: a Series of Lectures
Shaden Tageldin - University of Minnesota
“How Does the Extra-European Compare? History, Affect, and the Problem of the Universal in World Literature.”
Thursday, May 21, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Kresge 2-420
Paul Reitter - Ohio State
“‘Jewish Self-Hatred: The Early Years, 1920-1930,”
Thursday, May 14, 2009
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Kresge 2-500
Sponsored by the German Department
Franco Nasi - L'Universita di Modena
"The Happy Melancholy of the Translator: Mark Strand and Billy Collins in Italian"
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Hagstrum Room, University Hall
Benjamin Colloquium
"Communicability and Iterability in Benjamin and Derrida"
Friday, May 8, 2009
9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Ripton Room, Scott Hall
A colloquium honoring Professor Samuel Weber major contribution to the field of Benjamin studies, especially in light of his most recent book, Benjamin's -abilities (Harvard, 2008). The colloquium will explore Benjamin's theory of language and its relationship to the work of Jacques Derrida. There will be two panels, one on the notion of "communicability" and the second on "iterability." Participants include Kevin McLaughlin (Brown University), Rebecca Comay (University of Toronto)
Françoise Dastur
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Crowe 1-125
Organized by the Hölderlin Reading Group
Henry Carrigan - Senior Editor/ Asst. Director of Northwestern University Press
"Academic Publishing in Times of Crisis" - Questions and Answers
Friday, May 1, 2009
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Kresge 2-370
Sponsored by CLS and the Department of German
Nicholas Brown - University of Illinois, Chicago.
“The Hermeneutics of Cultural Flows: Three Options and a Choice of Numbers"
Thursday, April 30, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Crowe 1-125
Kiarina Kordela - Macalester College
“Psychoanalytic Biopolitics and Bioracism”
Friday, April 24, 2009
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
2-500
Sponsored by the German Department
Judith Butler - UC Berkeley
"Hannah Arendt"
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Tech Auditorium LR2 – Lecture Room 2 (L171)
2145 Sheridan Rd
Penelope Deutscher
"Prior: Judith Butler from Perfomativity to Ethics and Responsibility"
Preparation for the forthcoming lecture by Judith Butler
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Crowe 1-125
Winter 2009
Reading World Literature: a Series of Lectures
David Damrosch - Columbia University.
“Comparing the Literatures: What Every Comparatist Needs to Know.”
Friday, March 6, 2009
3:00 p.m.
VerSteeg Lounge
Steve Yao - Hamilton College.
"On Gaps, Gradients, and (Pacific) Rims: Rethinking the Space of Comparative Literature."
Thursday, February 26, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Hagstrum Room, University Hall
Vilashini Cooppan - University of California, Santa Cruz.
“Race, Globe, Genre, Affect: Notes on Worlding at the Edge of a New Era.”
Friday, January 30, 2009
3:00 p.m.
Kresge 2-420
Anna Glazova
"Revising the Uncanny: Gogol, Poe and Kafka"
January 26, 2009
2.00 p.m.
Crowe 1-125
Fall 2008
CLS Faculty/Graduate Student Colloquium "Interwar Poetry and Society"
Clare Cavanagh (Slavics and CLS) on poems by Mandelstam and Akhmatova
Holly Zindulis (English and CLS) on William Carlos Williams, "To Elsie"
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
12:00 to 1:30
Crowe 1-125
Lunch will be served
Copies of the poems are available at the CLS Program office, Crowe 1-117
Academic Year 2007-2008
Marc Shell – Harvard University
"Money and Language: The Futures of Comparative Literature"
May 2, 2008
Harris Hall 108
Emily Apter – NYU
"Towards a Theory of Literary Technics"
April 17, 2008
Harris Hall 108
Gayatri Spivak – Columbia University
"Rethinking Comparativism"
March 7, 2008
McCormick Tribune Auditorium
For more info contact:
Amanda Caverzasi
(847) 491-3864
