Previous Events Sponsored by the Program
Fall 2024
November
Workshop on Professional Success in Comparative and Humanities
With Drs. John Pizer, Adelaide Russo, Jeffrey Leichman, Katelyn Knox, and Richard Godden.
November 8th, 2024
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Hodges Hall 155
Spring 2024
March
Lecture by Dr. Estela Vieira, Indiana University
The Comparative Literature Program presents a lecture by Dr. Estela Vieira, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Portuguese Program at the Indiana University. Lecture title: "Gender Violence and Historical Memory in "Murmuring Coast" (2004) by Margarida Cardoso and Isabel Coixet's "The Secret Life of Words" (2005)".
Wednesday, March 27. Online, 12:30 p.m.
Zoom ID: 494 639 4679
Passcode: 5758
Film Screening: "The Secret Life of Words" (2005)
The Comparative Literature Graduate Association presents a screening of Isabel Coixet鈥檚 2005 film, The Secret Life of Words by Isabel Coixet and starring Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Javier C谩mara and Julie Christie. It is a touching and heartbreaking romance, with an awesome screenplay and wonderful performances of Sarah Polley and Tim Robbins. The dramatic story develops perfectly the characters and in spite of the happy-end, it is never corny.
Wednesday, March 20, 3: 00p.m.-6:00p.m.
In Person: Prescott room 138
Fall 2023
October
Lecture & Workshop by Dr. Cecilia Enjuto Rangel, University of Oregon
The Comparative Literature Program presents a lecture by Dr. Cecilia Enjuto Rangel,
Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon.
Lecture title: "The Politics of Affect and its Sticky Objects in Louis Malle's Au
revoir les enfants (France, 1987) and Andres Wood's Machuca (Chile 2004)".
October 26. Online, 12:00-1:20 p.m.
Zoom ID: 494 639 4679
Passcode: 5758
Workshop title: "Academic Publishing in Comparative Literature".
Film Screening: "Machuca", by Andr茅s Wood
The Comparative Literature Graduate Association presents Andr茅s Wood's Machuca (Chile 2004)
Andr茅s Wood's "Machuca" presents a powerful coming-of-age story inspired by the childhood memories of Andr茅s Wood. Set in Chile at the time of the military coup that overthrew Chile鈥檚 popularly elected democratic socialist president, Salvador Allende, and imposed Augusto Pinochet鈥檚 long-lasting dictatorship, the movie centers on social scission, traumatic memory, and friendship. The film stars Mat铆as Quer, Ariel Mateluna and Aline K眉ppenheim. One hour and twenty minutes. In Spanish with English subtitles. Comparative Literature Graduate Students will lead a discussion after the movie.
Tuesday, October 24, 5:00 p.m., Lockett Hall 15.
Spring 2023
February
Lecture by Comparative Literature Professor and Carnegie Fellow Dr. Andrew Sluyter
Lecture title: "The Iconography of Death in the Logbooks of the Dutch Atlantic Slave
Trade of the Eighteenth Century".
February 23. Dean's Office, Hodges 155, 12-1 PM. Learn more about Dr. Sluyter's lecture.
March
7th Annual Languages & Literatures Conference
Organized by the Comparative Literature and French Studies programs' respective graduate
associations.
March 9-11. Online. Learn more about the Language & Literatures conference.
Spanish Film Festival
Organized by the Comparative Literature Graduate Association.
March 9-11. Online. Learn more about the Spanish Film Festival.
April
Lecture by Comparative Literature Graduate Student Negar Basiri
Lecture title: "Anonymity as the Immemorial Exile: A Shared Space in Iranian, French,
and American Texts".
April 13. Dean's Office, Hodges 155, 12:30-1:30 PM.
October 18
海角社区 Comparative Literature 2022-2023 Invited Lecture Series Proudly Presents:
Borderline Stories: Migrants at the Limits of History
with Dr. William Boelhower of Ca'Foscari University, Venice
Time: 4:30-6:00 PM
Place: 216 Prescott Hall
Refreshments will be Served
September 29
Teaching World Literature
A Workshop with Alexader Schmidt and Meghan Hodges
Zoom Link:
Meeting ID: 811 434 9610
Time: 9:30 AM Sep. 29th, 2022
April 14
Invitation: Please join us next Thursday, April 14, for two exciting presentations
Speaker: Professor Olivia Loksing Moy (Associate Professor at City University of New York, Lehman College):
Seminar: 1:30-2:45, Allen 202: "The Cort谩zar Continuum: Translation from Rabassa to Blackburn"This discussion on the role of the literary translator is designed especially for graduate students and for those with an interest in translation studies.
Lecture: 3:30-4:45, Allen 102: "Keats鈥� Chameleon, Cort谩zar鈥檚 Axolotl: Vida y Cartas de John
Keats"
This talk will treat the Argentinian author Julio Cort谩zar (1914-1984), a perspicacious
reader and avid lover of all things Keats. She will set Cort谩zar's translations in
the context of Keats's Hispanophone reception and the surprising afterlife of his
poetry preceding the Latin American Boom.
Contact Information: http://www.olivialoksingmoy.com/
https://lehman.edu/academics/arts-humanities/english/olivia-moy.php
April 7-8, 2022
On Space and Place: 6th Annual Virtual Conference
Organized by: The Comparative Literature Program and French Studies Graduate Student Associations
Funded by: 海角社区's Programming, Support, & Initiatives Fund
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Imane Terhmina
Guest Speakers: Dr Greg Stone, Dr. Sharon Weltman, and Dr. Alan Sikes
Time: Apr. 7,-9:00 AM - 4:10
Apr. 8, 9:30 AM - 5 PM
Venue: Apr. 7 ZOOM link:
Apr. 8 ZOOM link:
February 14, 2022
Lecture: Stories of Our Lives: Material Culture, Memory, and Narrative on the 叠贸惫别诲补
Speaker: Dr. Solimar Otero
Time: Monday, Feb. 14, 2022 at 3:00 PM
Place: Design Building 103
Sponsored by: CPLT, English WGS, Anthropology, Philosophy & Religious Studies; World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; Linguistics; and the College of HSS
October 28, 2021
Lecture: Reimagining Gender
in 21st Century Latin American Cinema
Speaker: Dr. Moira Fradinger
Time: Oct. 28, 4:30 - 6:00 PM on Zoom
Zoom Link:
Organized by: Dr. Laura Martins
September 20th, 2021
Notes on the Profession:
How to Identify, Apply for, and Win Fellowships
Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Kahan
Monday,
Time: Monday, Sept. 14, 1:30 to 3:00 on Zoom
April 14th, 2021
After Modernism: Women, Gender, Race
Presented by: College of Humanities & Social Sciences, Comparative Literature Program, Dept. of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Guest Speaker: Dr. Pelagia Goulimari
Time: Apr. 14, 4:30 PM via ZOOM
Meeting Id: 494 639 4679
Passcode: 5758
March 4-6, 2021
How Bodies Matter: 5th Annual Virtual Conference
Presented by: The Comparative Literature Program and French Studies Graduate Student Associations
Guest Speakers: Dr Sayak Valencia and Dr. Antje Ziethen
Time: March 4-6 Venue: ZOOM
Call for Papers!
*Abstracts Should be 250 words in length
*Please include a short biographical note, including University affiliation and area of study
*Presentations should be 15-20 minutes in length
*UPDATED Deadline: January 31, 2021
February 10, 2021
海角社区 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE WORKSHOP WITH ALUMNI
Dr. Eustis Richmond and Dr. Alexandra Reuber
Time: 5:45 PM via ZOOM
October 28, 2020
Teaching World Literature: A Workshop
Jing Tan and Ikea Johnson
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Venue: ZOOM
October 12, 2020
鈥淭he Reclining Woman in Emilia Pardo Baz谩n鈥檚 Un viaje de novios [The Wedding Trip]鈥�
Dr. James Mandrell
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Venue: ZOOM
October 8, 2020
World Literature Teaching Workshop
Dr. John Pizer
TIme: 3:00 p.m.
Venue: ZOOM
September 30, 2020
鈥淭he Birth of Spanish in 3D: A Search for Its Origins鈥� lecture 鈥淎 Holy Ghost: King Alfonso X of Castile (d. 1284) and the Anxiety of Sonship鈥�
Dr. Ryan Szpiech
TIme: 12:30-3:00 p.m.
Venue: ZOOM
Spring 2019
"Shakespeare's Strange Fruit: Race, Complicity, and Illegitimacy"
Dr. Ruben Espinosa,
Associate Professor of English from the University of Texas at El Paso
Date: December 3, 3019
Venue: Lockett Hall 16
Time: 3:00-4:15 p.m.
Poet Salgado Maranh茫o and Translator Alexis Levitin
Brazil and Portugal
Reading and Discussion
Date: April 22, 2019
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Venue Art & Design
The Comparative Literature Graduate Association Presents with the support of the 海角社区 Department of French Studies: The 3rd Annual Languages and Literatures Conference
March 29-30, 2019
Keynote Address by Fran莽oise Lionnet
Harvard University
March 30, 2019
5:00 p.m.
海角社区 Women's Center
Louisiana Slave Conspiracies: A Digital Project
Dr. Bryan Wagner
University of California, Berkeley
Date: March 26, 2019
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Allen 113
Fall 2018
Archives of Conjure: Residual Transcriptions
Dr. Solimar Otero, Associate Professor, English; 海角社区
Date: November 9, 2018
Time: 3:30 pm
Venue: 113 Allen
Teaching World Literature Workshop
Dr. Adelaide Russo;
Date: November 19, 2018
Time: 12 Noon
Venue: 202 Allen
Comparative Literature, Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies, the Writing Program, and Louisiana and Caribbean Studies Present: On Multimodality
Brown Bag Workshop: Multimodal Composing
Jonathan Alexander,
Chancellor鈥檚 Professor of English, Informatics, Gender and Sexuality Studies
University of California, Irvine
Date: September 14, 2018
Time: 12 Noon-1:30 pm
Venue: 海角社区 Library 241A
In this workshop discussion, Jonathan Alexander describes why inviting students to compose multimodal projects offer them an opportunity to think creatively, rhetorically, and critical.
Burning Time: Memory and Queer Imagination
Jonathan Alexander, Chancellor鈥檚 Professor of English, Informatics, Gender and Sexuality
Studies
University of California, Irvine.
Date: September 13, 2018
Time: 3-4:30 pm
Venue: 234 Prescott
This multimedia presentation describes a hybrid poetry and art project, entitled 鈥楤urning Time鈥�, in which Jonathan Alexander reflects queer work of imagining memories as a form of restorative history making for queer subjects.
Fall 2018 Louisiana and Caribbean Studies Lecture Series: Film Screening: Amigo Skate, Cuba (2018)
* Winner 2018 Miami Film Festival Knight Documentary Achievement Award*
Q&A by James Wilkey
PhD Candidate, History, 海角社区
Date: August 24, 2018
Time: 2-4:30 pm,
Venue: 234 Prescott
Workshop on Teaching World Literature
Dr. John Pizer, Foreign Languages
Emily O鈥橠ell, PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature
Ben Howland, PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature
Date: September7, 2018
Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
Venue: 234 Prescott
Spring 2018
2nd Annual Literature and Languages Conference
Call for Papers:
鈥淭ime, Consciousness, and Exile鈥�
March 9-10, 2018
海角社区, Baton Rouge Campus
Brujx-ing Donald Trump
Afro-Latinx Ritual Activism in Contemporary Politics
Professor Aisha Boliso-De Jes煤s, Harvard University
Date: March 7, 2018
The French House, Strawberry Salon
The election od Donald Trump to the US presidency has thrown into relief how racism, sexism, and patriarchy continued to be intimately entwined with contemporary politics. For those who practice African diasporic religions, 鈥渨itchcraft鈥� or brujer铆a has historically been a strategy to reveal types of oppression. This talk examines the collective political strategy of brujx-ing against Donald Trump, tracing how African diasporic practitioners are deploying ritual hexes, offerings, prayers, rites, and other collective works to thwart Trump鈥檚 social objectives.
Event co-sponsored by the College of Humanities and Social Science, the Ogden Honors college, Comparative Literature, Geography and Anthropology, English, and African and African American studies.
L&S Lecture Series, Spring 2018
鈥淐reative Control: Navigating Foreign Presence in Contemporary Dominican and Cuban
Narrative Film.鈥�
Dr. Andrea Morris, Foreign Languages, 海角社区
Date: February 21, 2018
Time: 12 Noon
Venue: 138 Prescott
During the 2000s, Dominican writer Aurora Arias, Cuban Alberto Guerra Naranjo and Mylene Ferm谩ndez Pintado and Cuban director Daniel Diaz Torres have explored the effects of increasing international travel to their home countries, dealing with sex and tourism, but also travel by foreign academicians and artists. Through the perspective of characters who are local and foreign travel writers, filmmakers, and scholars, these works highlight the ethics and politics of mobility, existing in transnational encounters, and the ramifications for the creative process and careers of Caribbean artists and intellectuals.
Fall 2017
The 海角社区 Programs in Comparative Literature and Louisiana and Caribbean Studies Present:
鈥淗omer鈥檚 Odyssey and Caribbean Epic: Questions of Origin and Cultures of Mingling鈥�
Dr. Michelle Zerba, Department of English
Date: November 6, 2017
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Venue: 234 Prescott
The 海角社区 Programs in Comparative Literature and Louisiana and Caribbean Studies Present:
Transnational Graduate Research from 海角社区
鈥淚slands, Place, and International Relations鈥�
Rosa Lazarao , Department of History
Pedro Ramos, Department of History
Maria Anna Zazzarino, Program in Comparative Literature
Date: October 13, 2017
Time: 2:30-4:30pm
Venue: 234 Prescott
海角社区 PhD Graduate students will share their findings from research done abroad during the summer 2017. This roundtable will discuss transnational connections in history, politics, and literature.
Refreshments will be served.
Fall 2017 Louisiana and Caribbean Studies Lecture Series: 鈥淲here鈥檚 Our Heritage? Ancestor
and Protests at Jazz Fest鈥�
Dr. Helen Regis, Geography and Anthropology
Date: September 6, 2017
Time: 12:30 pm
Venue: 234 Prescott
Dr. Helen Regis received her Bachelor of Arts from Loyola University, a Master of Arts and PhD from Tulane University. She is currently an associate professor of Anthropology at 海角社区. Regis鈥� interests include Cultural Anthropology, Blackness, Performance, Urban Spaces: Anthropology of Cities; Africa and African Diaspora: New Orleans, Benin, Cuba, and Cameron.
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