News and Events
Events of interest to Comparative Literature faculty and students
Fall 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Proust's Latin Americans
Lecture by Rubén Gallo, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures, Princeton University
Smith-Buonanno, Room 106
5:00pm
Sponsored by the Reinhard Kuhn Memorial Lectureship Fund and the Department of Comparative Literature
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Friday, December 2, 2011
Afro-Latin@s in the U.S.
Lecture by Juan Flores and Miriam Jiménez-Román
Brown Bookstore, 24 Thayer Street
12:00pm
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Spring 2012
March 1, 2012
What Kind of a Subject is Food?: Antiquity, Renaissance, and the Lives of a Symbolic Form
The Howard Foundation Lecture
Leonard Barkan, Class of 1943
University Professor, Princeton University
Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown Street
5:30pm
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March 15, 2012
Poetry at Guantánamo
Marc D. Falkoff
List 110
7:00pm
Marc D. Falkoff is Associate Professor of Law at Northern Illinois University. Since 2004, he has been a principal lawyer in the habeas representation of seventeen prisoners being held by the U.S. military at Guantánamo Bay on suspicion of involvement with terrorism. For this work, he was named the Charles F.C. Ruff Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year in 2005 by Covington & Burling, LLP. He received the Frederick Douglass Human Rights Award in 2007 from the Southern Center for Human Rights, and the Bill of Rights in Action Award in 2008 from the Constitutional Rights Foundation in Chicago. The book of prisoner poetry he edited – Poems from Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak – was a bestselling anthology and has been translated into a dozen languages.
Sponsored by the Office of International Affairs, the Watson Institute for International Studies, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Departments of Comparative Literature and Theatre Arts and Performance Studies.
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March 22, 2012
Gavage Objects: Force-feeding and Social Death
Patrick Anderson
Smith Buonanno 201
7:00pm
Patrick Anderson is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego, where he is also a faculty affiliate of Critical Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies. He works at the interstices of performance studies and cultural studies, focusing in particular on the constitutive role of violence, mortality, and pain in the production and experience of political subjectivity. He is author of So Much Wasted: Hunger, Performance and the Morbidity of Resistance (Duke University Press, 2010) and co-editor of Violence Performed: Local Roots and Global Routes of Conflict (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008). His work-in-progress includes a mixed-genre book on illness and memory, and a critical study of the role of empathy in contemporary American performance practice and inter-cultural discourse.
Sponsored by the Office of International Affairs and the Departments of Comparative Literature and Theatre Arts and Performance Studies.
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March 29 - April 1, 2012
2012 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association
to be held at Brown University
Hosted by the Department of Comparative Literature
[ACLA conference website]
April 2, 2012
"Before the Revolution"
Rei Terada
Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
Petteruti Lounge, Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center
5:00pm
Sponsored by the Andrea Rosenthal Memorial Lectureship Fund and the Department of Comparative Literature
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April 5, 2012
Argentina and the Legacies of Torture
Marguerite Feitlowitz
Smith Buonanno 201
7:00pm
Marguerite Feitlowitz is Professor of Literature at Bennington College. She is the author of A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture (1998; revised and updated edition, 2011), a New York Times Notable Book and Finalist for the PEN New England/L.L. Winship Prize. Her fiction, essays, and translations have appeared in BOMB, Tri-Quarterly, Salmagundi, Les Temps Modernes, Americas, and many other magazines, newspapers, and anthologies.
Sponsored by the Office of International Affairs, the Watson Institute for International Studies, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Departments of Comparative Literature and Theatre Arts and Performance Studies.
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April 12, 2012
Foreign Objects: Personhood and Intolerance under Louis XIV
Professor Katherine Ibbett
University College London
School of European Languages, Culture and Society
Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown Street
5:30pm
Sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature, French Studies, and Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
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April 27, 2012
"Appreciating Appreciation"
Professor Charles Altieri
University of California, Berkeley
Salomon Center for Teaching, room 001
5:30pm
Sponsored by the Graduate Students of the Department of Comparative Literature
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