Comparative Literature Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year
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- 10/11/05 (Tues)
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Open House
4:30PM until 6:00PM
In Royce 306
The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) invites faculty and students with an interest in Medieval and Renaissance Studies to attend an open house to mark the beginning of the new academic year. Meet the Center's staff and learn about the programs, awards, and fellowships available from CMRS. CMRS Director Brian P. Copenhaver will make some brief remarks at 5 pm. There will also be a small used book sale featuring items of interest to scholars of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Advance registration not required. Stop in and meet us!-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)
- 10/25/05 (Tues)
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE LECTURE SERIES, #1 - RANJI KHANNA AND NATALIE MELAS
4:00PM
In 306 Royce Hall
DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE LECTURE SERIES “WHAT IS COMPARATIVE LITERATURE?”First Lecture in the Series
Co-Sponsored by Dept. of French & Francophone Studies
RANJI KHANNA (Duke University) “Algeria Cuts”
and
NATALIE MELAS (Cornell University) “Equivalence”
The lecture takes place on 10/25/05 at 4:00 pm in 306 Royce Hall.
RANJANA KHANNA received her PhD in Women's Studies at the University of York, U.K., and is currently Associate Professor of English, the Literature Program, and Women’s Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism (Duke University Press, 2003). She has published on a variety of subjects ranging from feminism, film, autobiography, new configurations of Area Studies in the post-Cold War era, torture and terrorism, and psychoanalysis. Her talk is taken from her forthcoming book Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation, 1830 to the Present (Stanford University Press, 2006). Her current work in progress is a book manuscript tentatively titled “Asylum: The Concept and the Practice.”
NATALIE MELAS received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (English, French, Ancient Greek) from UC Berkeley and is currently Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. Her areas of interest include transcultural theory (between postcolonialism and globalism), the politics of disciplinary histories, cultural comparison, postcolonial neo-formalism, turn-of- the-century English literature, Anglophone and especially Francophone Caribbean literature and theory, modern reconfigurations of antiquity, Homer. She has published essays on the fate of the humanities in the contemporary university, on incommensurability, on Joseph Conrad, and on French Caribbean Literature. Her talk is taken from her forthcoming book, All the Difference in the World: Postcoloniality and the Ends of Comparison (Stanford University Press, 2006).
-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (webcalendar@humnet.ucla.edu)
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