multi-day
Summer Institute of Psychoanalysis
10:00 AM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Schedule of events The Summer Institute of Psychoanalysis addresses the impact of psychoanalytic thought on what it does not consider to...
Past Events
multi-day
Decolonizing Critical Theory (Epistemic Violences and Decolonial Aesthetics)
9:00 AM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Critical Theory
The Critical Theory in the Global South project, an initiative of Northwestern's Critical Theory Cluster and the International Consortium of...
multi-day
Critical Theory Cluster Lecture by Branka Arsic: "Entomological Persons: Insects and Ahab"
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Critical Theory
The Critical Theory Program Presents: Lecture and graduate student workshop with visiting scholar Branka Arsic"Entomological Persons: Insects and Ahab" Abstract:Reconstructing Melville’s interest...
multi-day
Critical Theory Cluster Graduate Workshop with Branka Arsic
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Critical Theory
The Critical Theory Program Presents a graduate workshop on Emily Dickinson and birds by Branka Arsic, Columbia University Birds and insects...
Jun
6
2019
CLS End of Year Celebration
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Join us as we celebrate the end of the year with CLS faculty and students! There will be food, drinks,...
Mar
1
2019
Sonali Thakkar (English, U Chicago), “The Racial Residuum: Blackness and Jewishness in Frantz Fanon”
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Sonali Thakkar (English, U Chicago), “The Racial Residuum: Blackness and Jewishness in Frantz Fanon” A winter talk series, “Thresholds of the...
Feb
15
2019
Susan Manning (English and Theater and Performance, Northwestern), “German Modern Dance between Orientalism and Transnationalism"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Susan Manning (English and Theater and Performance, Northwestern), “German Modern Dance between Orientalism and Transnationalism" Winter talk series, “Thresholds of the...
Jan
25
2019
Presentation by Mark Lipovetsky
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literatures
Mark Lipovetsy discusses “Dmitri Prigov’s ‘Appeals to Citizens’ and the Meaning of New Sincerity.” Professor and Director of Russian Graduate...
Jan
25
2019
Leah Feldman (Comp Lit, U Chicago), On the Threshold of Eurasia: Revolutionary Poetics in the Caucuses
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Leah Feldman discusses her new book On the Threshold of Eurasia: Revolutionary Poetics in the Caucuses On the Threshold of Eurasia...
Dec
7
2018
"Genealogies of Emergency", Professor Siraj Ahmed (Comp Lit Speaker Series)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
"Genealogies of Emergency" Theorists conventionally treat the global state of emergency in which we live as a political and juridical condition....
Dec
3
2018
Fanon, Aesthetics and the Decolonial Turn
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM, sponsored by Critical Theory
DISCUSSION OF:- Alia Al-Saji, “Glued to the Image: Fanon and Muslim Racialization through Works of Art”- Nelson Maldonado-Torres, “On Metaphysical...
Dec
1
2018
Minorities in Philosophy Screening and Panel Discussion
5:15 PM - 7:15 PM, sponsored by Critical Theory
UHURU PHALAFALA (STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY) & PREMESH LALU (UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE) HOST & CHAIR: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY’S MAP (MINORITIES AND PHILOSOPHY)...
Nov
9
2018
Critical Theory in Critical Times Workshop: Seyla Benhabib
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Critical Theory
EXILE, STATELESSNESS, MIGRATIONA Discussion with Seyla Benhabib Invited commentators: Craig Calhoun (Arizona State University), Mary Dietz (Northwestern), José Medina (Northwestern), and...
Nov
1
2018
Gayatri Gopinath & Marlon Bailey - Unruly Visions
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Colloquium on Ethnicity & Diaspora (CED)
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents "Unruly Visions" - a book talk by Gayatri Gopinath (New York University) moderated by...
Oct
15
2018
Diego Fernández to speak; Toward an Image-Critique of Violence
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Professor Diego Fernández of the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago to speak. Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and...
Oct
9
2018
Fabrizio Desideri to speak; Intermittency, Messianism and Apokatastasis. On Benjamin's Late Thinking
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Professor Fabrizio Desideri of the University of Florence to speak. Co-sponsored by the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Comparative Library...
Jun
23
2018
Weinberg College Senior Convocation
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Weinberg College's 2018 Convocation will be held on Saturday, June 23 at 11:30 a.m at Ryan Field, 1501 Central Street,...
Jun
22
2018
Jun
7
2018
Kreeger-Wolf Public Lecture: Rocio Zambrana (University of Oregon)
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Philosophy Department Lectures, etc.
Title: Notes for a Decolonial Critique of Debt This event is co-sponsored by the Kreeger-Wolf Endowment, the Department of Philosophy, the...
Jun
6
2018
Killing is the Law - Dr. Joy James & Dr. Sora Han
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Colloquium on Ethnicity & Diaspora (CED)
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents our final event of the year – “Killing is the Law” a...
May
10
2018
"Nazım Hikmet and the Prose of Communism" (Nergis Ertürk, Penn State University)
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Comparative Literary Studies Program Speaker Series. Professor Ertürk will discuss current book project on early twentieth-century Turkish and Soviet literary encounters. Please note,...
May
10
2018
Christina von Braun, Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor, Red Ink: Scripture and the Creation of Bloodlines
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
The Department of German, Department of Religious Studies, Jewish Studies Program and Comparative Literary Studies, presents: Christina von Braun, Max Kade Distinguished...
May
9
2018
BOOK LAUNCH - With Stones in Our Hands: Writings on Muslims, Racism, and Empire
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Colloquium on Ethnicity & Diaspora (CED)
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents a book launch for With Stones in Our Hands: Writings on Muslims,...
Apr
27
2018
Talk: Kata Gellen, Duke University: Visualized Voices in Kafka and Silent Film
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
The Department of German presents: Kata Gellen from Duke University, a talk on Visualized Voices in Kafka and Silent Film. Cosponsored...
Apr
17
2018
Aïcha Liviana Messina, "Exacerbating the Self-Critical Tendency: Ethics and Critique in and Beyond Blanchot"
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
All are welcome. A light lunch will be served. Co-sponsors include: the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Program in Critical...
Apr
16
2018
Eduardo Cadava, Princeton University, Learning to See: Susan Meiselas
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Presented by the Department of German. Co-sponsored by the Department of Art History, Comparative Literary Studies Program, Alice Kaplan Institute...
Apr
9
2018
Dr. Zakiyyah Iman Jackson - God Particle: Sublimity, Matter, and Virtuality in Black Feminist Poetics
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Colloquium on Ethnicity & Diaspora (CED)
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents "God Particle: Sublimity, Matter, and Virtuality in Black Feminist Poetics" – a...
Mar
22
2018
Ilit Ferber, Tel Aviv University, Walter Benjamin, Philosophy, Melancholia
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Join us to hear Ilit Ferber (Tel Aviv University) in our German speaker series. Please email keloni@northwestern.edu for a PDF of...
Mar
15
2018
Comparative Literary Studies Speaker Series: Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Johns Hopkins University
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
"J.E. Casely Hayford and the Case for Afro-Originating Comparison." Taking J.E. Casely Hayford's Ethiopia Unbound (1911) as its central point of...
Mar
1
2018
Slowness and Agitation - Dr. Mel Y. Chen
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Colloquium on Ethnicity & Diaspora (CED)
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents a talk by Dr. Mel Y. Chen (University of California, Berkeley). The event...
Feb
16
2018
Costica Bradatan: “Why We Fail and How. Notes on the Everydayness of Philosophy”
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of German
The Department of German and the Program in Critical Theory and Comparative Literature are hosting Costica Bradatan, of Texas Tech University,...
Nov
15
2017
The Art of Forgetting: Intimacy and Erasure in German and Turkish Art Histories - Banu Karaca, Mercator-IPC Fellow; Sabanci University, Istanbul
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Critical Theory
Turkey and Germany, just as with their imperial formations, share a long, often troubling history of cultural encounters and political...
Nov
3
2017
Maurice Blanchot: The Thought of Absence
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of French and Italian
Annual Fall Conference Free and open to everyone. Guest Lecturers: KEVIN BELL Penn State University CHRISTOPHE BIDENT Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, KEYNOTE JOHN BRENKMAN...
Jun
15
2017
CLS Graduating Seniors End of Year Celebration
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
All of our Comparative Literary Studies majors and minors who are graduating this year are welcome, along with their families...
May
12
2017
Carol Jacobs (Yale Univ.): "Angelika Kauffmann and the Art of Depiction"
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Department of German
The Department of German, the Graduate School, the Department of Art History, and the Comparative Literary Studies Program present Carol Jacobs,...
Apr
27
2017
"In Balance with This Life, This Death: Molecular Philology and the Rise of Modern Comparative Literature"- Lecture by Shaden Tageldin, University of Minnesota
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
The Comparative Literary Studies Program Presents: Lecture by Shaden Tageldin, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and Director of the African...
Apr
26
2017
"Comparative Literature and the Measures of Modernity..."- Graduate Workshop by Shaden Tageldin, University of Minnesota
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
The Comparative Literary Studies Program Presents: Graduate Workshop by Shaden Tageldin, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and Director of...
Apr
25
2017
Professor Astrid Deuber-Mankowski (Bochum University), “Why is Niobe Punished?"
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Professor Deuber-Mankowski’s pre-circulated paper will include a discussion of the concept of Schuld (guilt-debt) in Friedrich Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals...
Mar
11
2016
Comparative Literary Studies - Gabriela Basterra
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Comparative Literary Studies presents Gabriela Basterra Graduate Workshop12-1:30pmCrowe Hall 4-130Lunch will be served
Mar
10
2016
Comparative Literary Studies - Gabriela Basterra
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Comparative Literary Studies presents Gabriela Basterra Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Spanish & Portuguese, NYU Lecture: Reason EnjoinedMarch 10, 20164:00pm Swift Hall...
Mar
2
2016
French Interdisciplinary Group- Isabelle Alfandary
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Fig & Comparative Literature present Isabelle Alfandary Freud's Early Case Studies: the Temptation of the Plot Wednesday, March 2, 20165-7pm Hagstrum Room201 University Hall Refreshments...
May
22
2015
Ranjana Khanna - Unbelonging Public Talk
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
“Unbelonging” Ranjana Khanna Friday, May 22, 2015Graduate Lunch 11:30-1:00pmRefreshments will be served at both events TGS Commons (Seabury building, 2122 Sheridan Rd.)For the...
May
22
2015
Ranjana Khanna - Unbelonging Graduate Workshop
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
“Unbelonging” Ranjana Khanna Friday, May 22, 2015Graduate Lunch 11:30-1:00pmLunch will be served refreshment will be served at both events TGS Commons (Seabury building, 2122...
May
5
2015
Joseph Slaughter- Comparative Literary Studies
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Comparative Literary Studies present, Joseph Slughter: May 4, 2015Public Talk4 - 6p.m. Harris Hall 108 May 5, 2015Graduate Student Workshop 12 - 2...
May
4
2015
Joseph Slaughter- Comparative Literary Studies
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Comparative Literary Studies present, Joseph Slughter: May 4, 2015Public Talk4 - 6p.m. Harris Hall 108 May 5, 2015Graduate Student Workshop 12 - 2...
Apr
17
2015
Critical Theory Cluster presents, Gender and Vulnerabilities
9:15 AM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
An interdisciplinary faculty-graduate workshop Gender and Vulnerabilities April 16-17, 2015 Visiting Faculty speakers include; Veena Das, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins UniversitySharon P. Holland, American...
Apr
16
2015
Critical Theory Cluster presents, Gender and Vulnerabilities
3:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
An interdisciplinary faculty-graduate workshop Gender and Vulnerabilities April 16-17, 2015 Visiting Faculty speakers include; Veena Das, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins UniversitySharon P. Holland, American...
Feb
27
2015
2015 Critical Theory in Critical Times WORKSHOP
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
2015 Critical Theory in Critical Times WORKSHOP Keynote Speaker: Hauke BrunkhorstFebruary 27 20153pm - 6pmHarris 108 Commentators: Prof. Mark Alznauer (NU, philosophy),...
Feb
25
2015
Rodolphe Gasché
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
The Program In Comparative Literary Studies presents Rodolphe Gasché "Of Mammoth Smallness: Franz Kafka's 'The Village Schollmaster'" Wednesday, February 25, 20154-6pm211 Scott Hall,...
Jan
22
2015
Eric Hayot Public Talk
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
What Happens to Literature if People are Artworks? Public Lecture4:00pm - 6:00pmHarris 108refreshments will be served How to Write, and Why: A...
Jan
22
2015
Eric Hayot Workshop
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
How to Write, and Why: A Workshop for Academic Writers Graduate Workshop 12:00pm - 2:00pm John Evans Center - 1800 Sheridan What...