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Doctoral student, Dustin Lovett, publishes new article in the Journal of World Literature

Check out Dustin Lovett's new article, World Literature In and For Pandemic Times!

Screening of Timbuktu at the Pollock Theater

Come check out the screening of Timbuktu at the Pollock Theater on Thursday, April 28, 2022 / 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM (PDT).

A Roundtable Discussion with Filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako

Please join us for a 90-minute roundtable discussion with the renowned filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako on April 29th 10:30 am - 1:00 pm.

Magic lantern: seeing far, seeing self and other delights in Méliès’s Lanterne Magique, Hoffmann’s Rat Krespel and Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann

The stupendous impact of the magic lantern, the early technology for producing spectacles of moving images, on the imaginative labors of the romantic generation, especially when these return us to the domain of the ocular, of seeing and gazing, has long been recognized in scholarship. Less understood is the mobilization of the apparatus for reimagining voice, singing and song during the 19th-century.

Historical and Contemporary Strategies for Writing and Re/Constructing Dance

Comparative literature graduate student, Margarita Delcheva, recently published her first peer-reviewed article in Venezia Arti, Vol 30.

Caroline Levine's Talk on Infrastructure of Collective Life

Join Caroline Levine on zoom for her talk on "Infastructures of Collective Life" on Febuary 17th, 2022 from 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. PST

Dame Marina Warner

Event Start: May 01, 2018 03:00 PM

Event End: May 01, 2018 03:00 PM

Event Location: McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6220)

Event Details:

On "Sanctuary and Literature: Words on the Move." May 1, 2018. 4:00-6:00pm, McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020).

Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Event Start: January 15, 2019 06:30 PM

Event End: January 15, 2019 06:30 PM

Event Location: Wallis Annenberg Conference Room

Event Details:

on "Translation & Decolonization." Thursday, January 17, 2019, 4:00-6:00 pm in the Wallis Annenberg Conference Room.

Professor Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia University) is the 2019 Distinguished Professor from the Graduate Center for Literary Research.