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The Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, offers opportunities for graduate study in a wide variety of literary traditions, with emphasis on historical coverage, on issues of influence and reception, and on critical and theoretical approaches ranging from textual criticism to cultural studies. Comparative Literature faculty hold joint appointments with man
10/15/2014
Event Friday, October 31, 2014:
Natalie Melas: "Literature and Value in the Afterlife of Comparison: or, the Fe**sh of Equivalence"
2-4 p.m. in 4337 Dwinelle Hall (Comparative Literature Library)
Event today, February 28:
Kenneth Weisinger Memorial Lecture
Carol Jacobs
Birgit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
“Sebald's Excesses: Opening and Closing of The Rings of Saturn”
Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature
5:00 pm, the Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Stephens Hall
Holiday Party today! 5PM in the comp lit library! Get your jingle on!!!
Event today, October 18
David Sedley
Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Haverford College
“Bacon, Montaigne, and the Naturalization of the Essay”
Sponsored by the Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair in English and the Department of French
5:00 pm, Comp Lit Library (4337 Dwinelle)
Event today, September 27:
Jane Tylus,
Professor of Italian, NYU
“Gaspara Stampa, Sappho, and the Early Modern Sublime”
Sponsored by the Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair in English, Italian Studies, and the Designated Emphasis in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
5:00 pm, Comp Lit Library (4337 Dwinelle)
Event today, April 26:
Kathryn Stockton,
Professor of English and Women’s Studies, University of Utah
“Kid Orientalism: African American HIV Children v. the Children of World Documentaries”
Sponsored by: the Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair in English and the English Department
4:00 pm, 300 Wheeler
Event today, April 12:
Jane O. Newman,
Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Irvine, will give the annual Weisinger lecture
Auerbach’s Dante: Poetical Theology and the Politics of World Literature
5:00 pm
Geballe Room, Townsend Center
Event today:
Neil Saccamano
Associate Professor English, Cornell University
“Reading Books on a Battlefield: Cosmopolitics and the Trouble with Humanity in Rousseau”
Sponsored by: the Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair in English and the English Department
April 11, 5:00 pm
Comparative Literature Library
4337 Dwinelle Hall
Faculty Book Event Today!
Wednesday, March 7th, 5:00 pm
Comparative Literature Library, 4337 Dwinelle Hall
for Professor Sophie Volpp’s
Worldly Stage: Theatricality in Seventeenth-Century China
(Harvard University Press, 2012)
* Please join us for an informal gathering across departments to hear Professor Volpp talk about her book. Congratulations and refreshments will follow!
* Comp Lit Library Committee
* (Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature)
Event today, Tuesday February 28:
Avenali Lecture
Fredric Jameson: "The Aesthetics of Singularity"
6 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
Events today, Monday, February 27:
Elliott Colla
Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Georgetown University
“The People Want? The Poetics of Revolution in Egypt”
4 pm, 160 Dwinelle Hall
Discussion with Fredric Jameson on Antimonies of Realism
By clicking on the following link, http://townsendlab.berkeley.edu/critical-theory/files/jameson-realism-ex... , you can access and download the excerpt from a draft of Jameson’s forthcoming The Antinomies of Realism. Professor Jameson has asked that those who wish to attend the February 27 conversation/discussion with him try to read the excerpt beforehand.
370 Dwinelle
5-7PM
http://townsendlab.berkeley.edu/critical-theory/files/jameson-realism-ex
Event Today:
Margreta De Grazia
Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
“Re-enchanting the English Reformation (and Shakespeare)”
Thursday, February 16
5 pm, 300 Wheeler Hall
The event is co-sponsored by the Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair in English and the Center for British Studies