French & Francophone Studies Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE LECTURE SERIES, #1 - RANJI KHANNA AND NATALIE MELAS

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).

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“THE POINT OF COMPARISON: REFLECTIONS ON A COMPARATIVE POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES”, a lecture by PROF. DAVID MURPHY

presents a Lecture by

PROF. DAVID MURPHY (University of Stirling)

entitled

“THE POINT OF COMPARISON: REFLECTIONS ON A COMPARATIVE POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES”

Wednesday October 26, 2005

306 Royce Hall Herbert Morris Seminar Room

4:30 pm

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“HAITI'S WATERS: SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATIONS AND ECOCRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS”, a lecture by Richard Watts

Presents a Lecture by

PROF. RICHARD WATTS (Tulane University)

entitled

“HAITI'S WATERS: SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATIONS AND ECOCRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS”

to be held on Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 4:30 pm in 236 Royce Hall, French Seminar Room

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