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Interview with Emily Goedde

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News and Events

Yael Kenan wins 2016 Horst Frenz Prize for "'Dialogue in Monologue' -- Addressing Darwish in Hebrew"

STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY AFFIRMING ACADEMIC FREEDOMS

Daniel Herwitz contributes essay on Coen brothers to prize-winning book

Congratulations to Cassie Miura!

Congratulations to Sara Grewal!

Congratulations to Duygu Ula!

Congratulations to Melissa Gelinas!

Congratulations to Lauren Benjamin!

Congratulations to Etienne Charriere!

Congratulations Comparative Literature Students and Faculty!

MEET OLIVIA ALGE, MINOR IN TRANSLATION STUDIES

Congratulations to the Winners of the Senior Prize in Literary Translation!

MEET SARA CUSACK, MINOR IN TRANSLATION STUDIES

MEET QUYNH KIEU, MINOR IN TRANSLATION STUDIES

MEET MARINE BARJOL, MINOR IN TRANSLATION STUDIES

Congratulations to Dr. Gélinas!

MEET THOMAS DEGROAT, MINOR IN TRANSLATION STUDIES

MEET ANJALI SUNDAR, COMPARATIVE LITERATURE MAJOR

Alumni Panel: What can a Comp Lit PhD do with digital humanities?

Congratulations to William Stroebel, PhD!

Postdoctoral Fellowship Announcement

Ross Chambers, 1932-2017

Congratulations Dr. Kashdan!

The Michigan Daily featured the new accelerated master's program in transcultural studies!

Senior Prize in Literary Translation

CLIFF 2018: Beyond the Scope, 22nd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum

Maximillian Alvarez speaks freely on NPR

New Course at Macomb Prison

Congratulations to Leigh Korey, who has been awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Prize by the Rackham Graduate School!

Lauren Benjamin awarded Graduate Student Fellowship at Institute for the Humanities!

Celebrating Comp Lit students and faculty

Being-Not-Rich at UM

Finding the Words

Congratulations to the 2018 winners of the Senior Prize in Literary Translation!

Translation Studies minor gains professional experience in translation

Congratulations Comparative Literature Department Chair, Yopie Prins's Ladies' Greek: Victorian Translations of Tragedy, winner of NAVSA's Best Book of the Year!

Congratulations to Dr. Korey!

DEPARTMENT LAUNCHES COMPARATIVE LITERATURE INTERNSHIP FELLOWSHIP FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS

The 2019 Senior Prize in Literary Translation is here!

Congratulations to Dr. Runyan!

Congratulations Duygu Ergun!

Congratulations to Dr. Ula!

Congratulations Sahin Acikgoz, a 2019 recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Awards!

Congratulations to our CompLit Grantees of the 2019 Mellon Public Engagement and the Humanities!

Discovering Comp Lit: Alaina Schallwig

Discovering Comp Lit: Avery Sandstrum

Congratulations to William Stroebel!

Congratulations, Lauren Benjamin, a winner of the 2019-2020 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship!

Major Testimonials: Hannah Zonnevylle

Kudos to Comparative Literature students and faculty!

2019 Senior Prizes in Literary Translation

Interview with Marlon James Sales on Spanish in the Philippines

Karen Jallatyan, Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow, organizes panel for the MLA International Symposium in Lisbon

Link to CSEAS lecture featuring Marlon James Sales, Postdoctoral Fellow in Critical Translation Studies

U-M scholars to explore multilingual Midwest in Sawyer Seminar

CLIFF Speaker Publishes Article from Keynote Address

Michigan Library Summer Scholars Program

Congratulations Davis Boos, winner of the Sweetland Upper-Level Writing Prize in the Humanities

4th Annual Graduate Student Fair

Meg Berkobien featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education

Grace Zanotti, Outstanding GSI!

CompLit. Grad Student receives 2020 summer fellowship at the Institute for the Humanities

CompLit. Grad Student receives 2020-2021 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Award

Kudos to our grad students!

Translators at Work: An Interview with Kelsey Trotta

2020 Senior Prize in Literary Translation

Congratulations Comparative Literature students and faculty!

Congratulations Lily Talmers, CompLit BA

Success on Defending Dissertation

Antoine Traisnel published new book, Capture, American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition

Literati Bookstore hosts discussion with Silke-Maria Weineck and Stefan Szymanski, co-authors of "City of Champions: A History of Triumph and Defeat in Detroit"

Announcing Absinthe, vol. 26: VIBRATE! Resounding the Frequencies of Africana in Translation

Frieda Ekotto awarded the Lorna Goodison Collegiate Professorship

Mellon Sawyer Seminar: Jewish Multilingualism in the Midwest: Yiddish Translations of Urban Experience

Congrats 2020 Graduates!

Comp Lit Alum Max Alvarez Now Editor-in-Chief of The Real News Network

CompLit Grad Student, Ivan Parra Garcia, publishes new book, Texarkana

CompLit Staff uses well-being break to bake scones!

New book by Daniel Herwitz: The Political Power of Visual Art

LSA Collegiate Fellow, CompLit, Renée Ragin Randall featured in LSA News

Kudos for Comparative Literature Ph.D. Fellowships

Antoine Traisnel writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education: "No, American Academe is Not Corrupting France"

Congratulations to Audrey Tieman and her instructor Lis Fertig on Sweetland First-Year Writing Prize

Mellon Sawyer Seminar Researchers Curate Library Exhibit

Translation and Memory: Library Exhibit on Literary Worlds of the Philippines

Congratulations to Annika Hoffmann, winner of the 2021 Senior Prize in Literary Translation!

DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE KUDOS 2020-21

25th annual CLIFF Conference: (Counter) Narratives of Migration

CompLit Ph.D. Student Imani Cooper Mkandawire receives Anti-Racism Summer Research Grant

Comp Lit Alum Deborah Starr publishes new book

Comp Lit Alum Ronit Ricci receives Honorable Mention for the third Emerging Scholars Prize in the Humanities

Comp Lit Alum Shai Ginsburg publishes Hebrew Translation of Paul de Man

Comp Lit Alum Nahoko Fukushima receives Humanities Best Ph.D. Accolades at IBP (ICAS Book Prize)

CHINA IN ONE VILLAGE translated by Comp Lit Alum Emily Goedde

Please join us in congratulating five Comparative Literature students who completed their PhD in the summer of 2021!

Translation for the Community: U Michigan celebrates Tenth Annual Translate-a-Thon (October 1-2, 2021)

Translation and Migration: A Virtual Conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (3pm on October 1, 2021)

CompLit welcomes Aaron Coleman, Postdoctoral Fellow in Critical Translation Studies

CCPS Lecture. Translating Pan Tadeusz: A Conversation with Bill Johnston

CompLit welcomes Marlon James Sales as the 1st Postdoctoral Fellow in Critical Translation Studies for 2019-2021

Silke-Maria Weineck awarded Grace Lee Boggs Collegiate Professorship

Visualizing Translation: Homeland and Heimat in Detroit and Dortmund Photojournalism Exhibit Launches

Silke-Maria Weineck receives Distinguished Faculty Governance Award

Silke-Maria Weineck featured in Freakonomics Podcast

Prof. William Stroebel awarded MLA's William Riley Parker Prize

Announcing Absinthe, vol. 27: Through German

CLIFF 2022 Call for Papers!

Congratulations to Comp Lit PhD student Amanda Kubic!

Kudos to Comp Lit Phd students on Fellowships for 2022-23!

Department of Comparative Literature Kudos 2021-2022

Congratulations to Neha Chava, winner of the 2022 Senior Prize in Literary Translation!

The 26th annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF)

Congratulations to our Comp Lit students who successfully defended their dissertations this summer!

Summer Recap: Dr. Artemis Leontis in Greece

Summer recap: Sanjana Ramanathan and Ancient Greek classes

Summer Recap: Dr. Christopher Hill in Tokyo

Congratulations to Dr. Karla Mallette for winning MLA's Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies

Our department mourns the sudden passing of Sadie Quinn

Our Recent Graduate, Emmanuel Orozco Castellanos, Wins MLK Jr. Spirit Award!

Dr. Aaron Coleman's new poem featured in the Academy of American Poets

Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 First Year Writing Prize!

Elisabeth Fertig wins Rackham Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award 2023

Wherein I Am: Highlights from the Aaron Coleman Papers

Congratulations to the winners and honorable mentions of the 2023 Senior Prize in Literary Translation

Congratulations to our Comp Lit students who successfully defended their dissertations this summer!

Congratulations to Dr. Vedran Catovic for Charles Bernheimer Prize Honorable Mention

Meet our new grad students!

Congratulations to our faculty affiliate Lawrence LaFountain-Stokes, winner of the 2023 University of Michigan Press Book Award

Congratulations to Emmanuel Orozco Castellanos, named 2024 Rhodes Scholar

Everything you need to know about this year's CLIFF

Meet our Peer Mentors!

Silke Weineck's essay "How Racist Car Dealers KO’d Joe Louis" listed as "Best History Writing of 2023."

Congratulations to Graham Liddell for receiving the ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award

Comp Lit welcomes Dina Mahmoud, incoming Society of Fellows postdoc

Welcoming Our New PhD Students!

Department of Comparative Literature Kudos 2022-2023

Department of Comparative Literature Kudos 2023-2024

Congratulations 2024 CompLit PhDs!

The Michigan Daily Interviews Santiago Colas

Translation Studies Minor Ana Guay Wins 2015 Gates Scholarship

Michael Pifer Wins ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award

Professor Peggy McCracken Receives John H. D'Arms Faculty Award

Duygu Ula Receives IRWG Graduate Student Fellowship

Professor Anton Shammas and Graduate Students Unveil Public Art Project

Professor Yago Colas's Course Highlighted in Undergraduate Article

The Senior Prize in Literary Translation

Frankel Institute Names Efrat Bloom Fellow

Professor Frieda Ekotto Accepts Benezet Award

Yopie Prins Appointed as Irene H. Butter Collegiate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

13th Annual Classical Translation Contest

Nancy Harris Wins Outstanding Staff Team Award

Professor Frieda Ekotto Awarded Nicolás Guillén Award for Philosophical Literature

Comparative Literature Major Nicole Sappingfield Highlighted in M-Magazine

Graduate Student Rostom Mesli Awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

Mei-Chen Pan Selected as Barbour Scholar 2014-2015

Yopie Prins Receives Honorable Mention for the 2014 Vondel Translation Prize for Work with Mother

Basak Candar Awarded Post-Doctoral Fellowship from Forum Transregionale Studien

Michael Pifer Awarded Post-Doctoral Fellowship by Manoogian Foundation

Professor Yago Colás's Class Featured on LSA Front Page

Translate-a-thon Covered in the University Record

2014 Senior Prizes in Literary Translation Announced!

David Porter Wins Best Teaching and Learning App in the 2014 Mobile Apps Challenge

Watch a video of the 2014 Translate-a-thon!

Congratulations to Maria Hadjipolycarpou for Defending her Dissertation!

Congratulations to Spencer Hawkins, Christopher Meade, Michael Pifer, and Shannon Winston!

The Department of Comparative Literature Assumes Editorial Leadership of Absinthe

Comparative Literature Professors and Graduate Students Receive Global Midwest Initiative Funding

Congratulations to Basak Candar for Defending Her Dissertation!

Congratulations to Gen Creedon for Defending her Dissertation!

Fall 2014 Canon Translation Review Released

Nancy Harris, Comp Lit Student Services Coordinator receives the LSA Staff Spotlight Award

Announcing: NEW Comparative Literature Minor in Translation

Congratulations to Michael Rinaldo who successfully defended his dissertation 4/29/13

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR COMP LIT FACULTY 2012-2013

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR COMP LIT GRADUATE STUDENTS 2012-2013

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR COMP LIT UNDERGRADUATES 2012-2013

Professor Yopie Prins has been elected Second Vice President of the American Comparative Literature Association

Congratulations to Catherine Brown Catherine was chosen for an award from the Associate Professor Support Fund in recognition of her brilliant work.

Congratulations to Efrat Bloom who successfully defended her dissertation Wed. 5/8/13

Congratulations to Matt Pfaff who successfully defended his dissertation 5/16/13

Yopie Prins has been appointed to the Provost's Faculty Advisory Committee

Comp Lit Alum-Nahoko Fukushima's Ph.D. Received Award

Sayan Bhattacharyya (Comp Lit alumni) accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Spencer Hawkins' translation accepted for publication by Bloomsbury

Congratulations to Amr Tawfik Kamal who successfully defended his dissertation 8/8/13.

Congratulations to Ramon Stern who successfully defended his dissertation 8/22/13

Congratulations to Emily Goedde-a collection of Emily's translations have been published.

Congratulatons to Suphak Chawla who successfully defended her dissertation 9/4/13

CLASSICAL TRANSLATION CONTEST

DEADLINE EXTENDED: CFP:(In)audible: Inquiries into Sound and the Auditory Imagination

Comp Lit Alum Meredith Martin wins book award

Professor Kader Konuk's book on Auerbach, East-West Mimesis reviewed in the New Yorker

Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop on Translation Approved

Comp Lit Reception at the MLA Convention 2012

Christopher Davis (Phd in Comparative Literature, University of Michigan) is named 2012 ACLS New Faculty Fellow

**SENIOR PRIZE IN LITERARY TRANSLATION**

Associate Professor Christi Merrill received the 2012 A. K. Ramanujan Book Prize for Translation.

UM COMP LIT STUDENTS AT 2012 ACLA

UM COMP LIT STUDENTS AT INSTITUTE FOR WORLD LITERATURE

2012 First Year Essay Prizes in Comparative Literature

CONGRATULATIONS TO COMP LIT UNDERGRADUATES 2011-2012!

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR COMP LIT FACULTY 2011-2012!

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR COMP LIT GRADUATE STUDENTS 2011-2012!

Gabriella Martin wins 2012 Senior Prize in Literary Translation

DEADLINE EXTENDED-Call for Papers: CLIFF The Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum

LSA Professor Tang Xiaobing Says Nobel Laureate Mo Yan Is One Of China's Most Innovative Writers

Translation Gains New Ground in Academia

**UNDERGRADUATE PRIZE IN LITERARY TRANSLATION April 2011**

Alumni Adeline Koh article in the Chronical of Higher Education

Our Ancient Wars Conference and Theater

Announcing Canon Translation Review January 2011

Department of Comparative Literature joins Institute for World Literature

CALL FOR PAPERS Due date 12/19/11 Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum

Congratulations Will Stroebel

Congratulations to our Comp Lit Faculty! 2010-2011

Congratulations to our Comp Lit Grad Students! 2010-2011

Congratulations to our Comp Lit Seniors! 2010-2011

VIDEO: Art House Animation and Poetics Trailer

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR COMP LIT FACULTY! 2009-2010

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR GRADUATE STUDENTS! 2009-2010

Archived Events

Theme Years 2009-2012

Fall 2012 LSA Translation Theme Semester

Anachronism 2011-2012

Comparison 2010-2011

Translation 2009-2010

Sports Conference

Canon Translation Review Release Party

The Values of College Sport

Translation at Work: Michigan Conversations on Literary Translation

Translation and Remediation in the Early Middle Ages

Comp Lit Graduation Reception

U-Monument 2014

Literature Brown Bag Series

What is Sex For?

Translating Subaltern Dialects

Reading Selections from Stuart Elden, Gearóid Ó Tuathail, and Dimitar Bechev

Heidegger on Ontological Difference

Reading Selections from Michael Bonner and Nora Berend

Translate-A-Thon 2014

Canguilhem, Deleuze, and Developmental Systems Theory

Theorizing Black Female Sexuality

Classicisms in the Black Atlantic

Empire, Exile, and Hospitality: Morisco Identity in Ottoman Tunisia

CLIFF Conference 2014

Senior Prize in Literary Translation

Petitioning for Justice in an International Age

Honoring the Legacy of Stuart Hall

Sex, Media, Reception: New Approaches

Sex, Media, Reception: New Approaches

The Mediterranean Incarnate

Author's Forum Presents: Dear Edward: Family Footprints: A Conversation with Paul Weinberg & Daniel Herwitz

Versatile Cultures: History and Hellenism in Kyriakos Charalambides and Derek Walcott

Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention

Sex, Media, Reception: New Approaches

Sex, Media, Reception: New Approaches

Physics of Scale and Registers of Rhetoric

U-Monument 2014: Translating the Facade of Angell Hall

Material Encounters: Ronald Bogue Seminar

Reading Selections from Whittaker and Frederick Jackson Turner

Translation for Vulnerable Times: The Iliad and the The Aeneid

CLASSICAL TRANSLATION WORKSHOP

Celebration for the Publication of The Lyric Theory Reader

Daniel Herwitz on Arthur Danto and Other Matters

Comp Lit Holiday Reception 2013

Deleuze, Embodiment, and Practice as Research

Brown Bag: Topics Paper

Author's Forum: A Conversation with Anton Shammas (In Arabic), Comp Lit Faculty

William Aitken: "Another Country: Fiction Writing and the Other Place"

William Aitken: "Last Impossible Loves: Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice"

The 19th Annual Charles F. Fraker Conference

Hollywood Has-Beens

Word Cloud Atlas: Key Terms across Disciplinary and Geographical Boundaries

Grilk Lecture-Vivian Liska

C’est bizarre: Queerness and French Cinema Discussion Series

William Aitken: "Another Country: Fiction Writing and the Other Place"

Cest bizarre: Queerness and French Cinema Discussion Series

William Aitken: "Another Country: Fiction Writing and the Other Place"

Robert Hayden: A Centennial Conference

Symposium: "Advancing Omry Ronen's Legacy Through Russian Literary Studies"

Affect, State Theory, and the Politics of Confusion

Workshop on Geophilosophy

Undergraduate Open House

Socialist Culture in China Reconsidered

Mapping the Mediterranean

Monsters by Trade, Lecture by Professor Lisa Surwillo (Standford University)

Taous Claire Khazem performing the play Tizi Ouzou

WCEE Student Presentations

Classiscisms and Beyond-Matthew Pfaff

Repetition and Refrain-Public Lecture

Reading Workshop on "Of the Refrain" (from A Thoursand Plateaus)

Colonial Resonance

CREES Symposium. "Ann Arbor on the Map of Russian Literature: A Tribute to Carl R. Proffer."

Roman Error: The Reception of Ancient Rome as a Flawed Model

Michael McGriff & Malena Mörling: A Conversation Co-Hosted by One Pause Poetry

Through a Glass, Darkly: Medievalism and Racial Inversion in The House Behind the Cedars and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

The Nineteenth-Century Forum presents: A Workshop with Yopie Prins "Ladies' Greek"

Department of Comparative Literature Fall Reception

Rhizome Workshop and Volunteering

Graduation Reception-Department of Comparative Literature

Translation and the Relocation of Cultures

Winter 2013 Final Brown Bag Chapter Workshop

Avant-Garde Interest Group presents: Patrizia McBride (Cornell University)

Closing Distances: Women, Middle East, Self, & Otherness In Conversation

Book Launch of Heritage, Culture and Politics in the Postcolony by Daniel Herwitz (in conversation with Pippa Skotnes)

Making It Work: US Thought and Culture Between Practice and Paralysis

Waiting for Chantal Mouffe Workshop with Professor Disch

Lineages of the Literary Left

Introductory Nahuatl Workshop

Honors Thesis Brown Bag

Re-Orientations: The Worlding of Marco Polo

Before (and After) Religion Discussion on the Formation of the Concept

Classics Brown Bag-“The Articulate Codex in Early Medieval Iberia”

Music and the Experience of Female Performers

CLIFF-Chantal Mouffe Workshop

Brown Bag Chapter Workshop

Translate-A-Bowl MMXIII

Author's Forum Presents: Heritage, Culture and Politics in the Postcolony: A Conversation with Daniel Herwitz and Adam Ashforth

Brown Bag Job Talk-Corina Kesler

Brown Bag Job Talk-Patrick Tonks

Brown Bag Job Talk-Ramon Stern

Holiday Reception-Department of Comparative Literature

Department of Comparative Literature's Faculty Meeting

North Quad Translation Mondays: Student Projects and Translation Prizes

Translation Theme Semester: Author's Forum with Amitav Ghosh

Translation Theme Semester: Celebrating Tagore: Translations through Music, Dance, and Poetry

Translation Theme Semester: Inaudible Dictionaries

North Quad Translation Mondays: Screening and Discussion

Translation Theme Semester: Speaking Nearby: Voices from Silence

Meditopos Film Screening: Öteki Kasaba (The Other Town)

Palestine and the Politics of the Everyday

Making London Western

North Quad Translation Mondays: The Story of Google Translate

CLIFF: Workshop to read Chantal Mouffe's works

North Quad Translation Mondays: Words Without Borders

Translation Theme Semester-The War of Translation and the Friendship Among Languages: American English, Colonial Education and Tagalog Slang 1920s-1970s

Translation Theme Semester: Censorship in Translation: Panel Discussion with Nigel Poor, Christi Merrill, et al.

North Quad Mondays: Translation at Work: Panel on Technical, Legal, and Medical Translation

Comparative Literature Tenured Faculty Meeting

ciné-concert Georges Méliès featuring Marie-Hélène Lehérissey and Lawrence Lehérissey

Complit Open House for Undergraduate-undeclared students

North Quad Translation Mondays: The Silk Stamen and Pistil Three Ways to Rethink the Meaning of Sound in Translation

Translation Theme Semester-Translating Human Rights: Bodies of Evidence

Meditopos Film Screening: Melillenses

North Quad Translation Mondays: Retelling a Rajasthani Folk Tale in Urdu

A public performance by Leonora Miano

Translation Theme Semester: Publishing Poetry in Translation

Translation Theme Semester-STORY, SENTENCE, SINGLE WORD: Translation Paradigms in Javanese and Malay Islamic Literature

Translation Theme Semester: Rackham Centennial Lecture, Professor Luise von Flotow

Translating Echoes from the Past

Translation Theme Semester: New Ways to Engage Students in Interdisciplinary Learning: Pedagogies of Translation

North Quad Translation Mondays: Reading of Literary Translations

Translation Theme Semester-Translating Antiquity: Lecture by Rita Copeland

North Quad Translation Mondays Film Screening: We Still Live Here (Âs Nutayuneân)

Translation Theme Semester-Translating Homer: panel discussion with UM faculty

Thinking Back, Looking Forward: Perspectives on Mental Time Travel

North Quad Translation Mondays: Speaking in Tongues

Translation Theme Semester-Should We Laugh at Human Rights Abuses?: Translation Quandaries Through Colonial Examples

Graduation Reception 2012

Staging Anachronism: A film screening, discussion, and dinner.

Taste-making: The Business of Opinion in Media

Kafka in the Middle East

Women Visualizing Africa Film Series: Double Feature Documentary: La femme invisible (The Invisible Woman) (Franco-Cameroonian, 2009)<br>Film: Calypso at Dirty Jim’s (Franco-Cameroonian, 2010)

Time and Loss in Eighteenth-Century Music Theory

Alan Itkin, Comparative Literature, Ph.D. presents Institute for the Humanities Brown Bag

Mark Merlis Reading

Winter 2012 Work-in-Progress Brown Bag

Aqud-A Reading with Author Albert Swissa

Bound Together: My (Isaac's) Yearnings for Ishmael

Our Ancient Wars

Writing From a Mediterranean Island In-Between Languages and Literary Spaces

16th Annual CLIFF-Revolutions, Post-Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions

Not Your Average Archaeology Lecture

Winter 2012 Work-in-Progress Graduate Student Brown Bag

Women Visualizing Africa Film Series: Documentary: Cuba: An African Odyssey

A Millennium in Perspective

Winter 2012 Work-in-Progress Brown Bag Workshop

Women Visualizing Africa Film Series: Documentary: The Witches of Gambaga

Klezmer Time Zones

The Emergence of Feminism in the Mizrahi Ashkenazi Discourse

Translating Dalit Testimony: Negotiating Rights Across Languages

Women Visualizing Africa Film Series: Documentary: Les enfants du blanc (Children of the White Man)

Women Visualizing Africa Film Series:Notre étrangère (The Place in Between)

Women Visualizing Africa Film Series

Comp Lit Reception at the MLA Convention 2012

Fall 2011 Final Brown Bag Fall Semester 2011

Holiday Reception

“The Time of Pathos”

Damir Arsenijevic-Guest Speaker Yugoslav Studies

Fall 2011 Work-in-Progress Brown Bag Workshop

Damir Arsenijevic Guest Speaker - "Love After Genocide"

Mental Time Travel: Successfully Navigating our Pasts and Futures

Fall 2011 Brown Bag: "From Seminar Paper to Dissertation Chapter"

Kleist Ancient/Modern

"Bond": A Chinese Opera Adaptation of "The Merchant of Venice"

Lecture by Harriet Guest

Graduation Reception

“Vernacular and Cosmopolitan Languages: A Global Conversation”

"Mediterranean Topographies: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Approaches to Mediterranean Studies”

WHY COMPARE? Panel Discussion Sequel

15th annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF)

Nathaniel Friedman (a/k/a Bethlehem Shoals of FreeDarko.com)

“Reproducing Comparison: Scoptophilic, Mexstatic Meditations on the Naked Eye, circa 2011"

Asian Literatures: Comparison from Calcutta to Kyoto

Memory Citizenship: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary Germany

Lesbian and Queer Historiography

Canon Translation Review Release Party

Holiday Reception

"Jewish Modernism in Early Twentieth-Century Europe: Languages, Trends, Politics"

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

Critical Theory Concerning Cultural Production of African Literature and Cinema: Comparisons Across Borders

DOING QUEER STUDIES NOW

The Psychic Life of Digital Media

MOBILITY IN JEWISH STUDIES

CROSS-CHANNEL POETICS

Comparative Literature's Fall Welcome Reception

Critical Theory Discussion Group

Department of Comparative Literature's Holiday Reception 2009

Comparative Literature's Fall Reception

Graduate Student Orientation

Comparative Literature's Commencement Reception 2009

SPRING CONFERENCE: COMPARATIVE EARLY MODERNITIES: 1100-1800

On Translating African Poetry: A Conversation with Sekepe Matjila and Keith Taylor

Lecture with Denise Ferreira da Silva

On Translating Romanian Poetry: A Conversation with Liliana Ursu and Sean Cotter

Workshop with Wendy Doniger: Translating Asian Literature

The 13th Annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum

Lecture with Lorna Hardwick: The Democratic Turn in Reception Studies

A Conversation wiith Rachel Tzvia Back: Translating Hebrew Poetry

Research Seminar with Haiping Yang: Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination

The Fruits of Labor: Abolitionist Rhetoric and the Law of the Free Womb in Nineteenth Century Brazilian Fiction

ON "THEORY" IN THE UNIVERSITY

Comparative Literature's Holiday Reception 2008

The Ethics of Translation

Invasion: The Use and Abuse of Comparative History

Comparative Literature Concentrator Open House

GELS Lecture by Zeynep Celik

Aamir Mufti: Orientalism and the Institution of World Literatures

Comparative Literature's Fall Reception 2008

Comparative Literature's Fall Orientation 2008

Virility and Arms: Male Individualism in the Last Round of Israeli-Palestinian Bloodshed

CLIFF Film Series 2008

GELS: Nicholas Dirks

GELS: Kay Warren

GELS: Wai Chee Dimock

GELS: Tsitsi Dangarembga

Comparative Literature's Fall Reception 2007

Comparative Literature's Fall Orientation 2007

FMS Seminar with David Roediger. "What's Wrong with These Pictures: Race, Narratives of Admission, and the Liberal Self-Representations of Historically White Celleges and Universities"

FMS End of the Year Celebration

FMS Panel "The Politics of Arab Identity in Palestine, Israel and the US"

FMS Seminar with Petra Kuppers. "Racialisation, Disability, Performance: The Anarcha Project"

FMS Workshop with William Pope L.

FMS Seminar Discussion

FMS Seminar with David Roediger. "What's Wrong with These Pictures: Race, Narratives of Admission, and the Liberal Self-Representations of Historically White Celleges and Universities"

FMS Public Lecture: "Comparative Race, Comparative Racisms" with Linda Martín Alcoff

FMS Discusion: "Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self" with Linda Martín Alcoff

FMS Workshop: Group Discussion

FMS Lecture and Discussion: "Identity and the Politics of Abstraction" with Sarita See

FMS Panel: "Identity Across the Disciplines"

FMS Lecture and Discussion: "How Real Is Race?" with Michael Hames-García

FMS Workshop: The Future of Minority Studies & the "How Do Identities Matter?" workshop series

FMS Panel "In the Aftermath of Prop 2"

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