Pierre Singaravélou: “Writing the World History of the Nineteenth Century: A Comparative History?”
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Adam Talib: “As Inconvenient and Offensive as Abundance”
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As Inconvenient and Offensive as Abundance
Zoom MeetingAdam Talib on “As Inconvenient and Offensive as Abundance.” This lecture is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory co-directed by Giulia Sissa (Political Science/Classics) and Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature/ELTS). Generously sponsored by the Dean of Humanities and the Dean of Social Sciences and co-sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. Register to...
Yala Kisukidi: “African and European Philosophy: Diasporic Thought In a Comparative Context”
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Elissa Marder: “Anti Antigone”
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Alexander Beecroft: “Contactless Comparison”
Zoom MeetingAbout the Lecture It’s easy to compare things that are produced near each other, by people who are able to influence each other. Traditionally, comparative literature has therefore compared literatures in close contact with each other: at first European literatures; later literatures in European languages around the world, and sometimes even contemporary literatures in non-European...
Matei Candea: “Counting to Two and Counting to Three: Comparative Imaginaries of Freedom of Speech”
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE LECTURE About the Lecture Debates over freedom of speech and its proper limits have become a recurrent feature of European and American public life in recent years. This talk examines the inherently comparative logics of these debates, the ways in which they figure and refigure differences between countries, legal...
William Marx: “Beyond World Literature”
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE LECTURE About the Lecture World literature or global literature is now taught in many universities around the world. But is the concept of world literature fully satisfactory? Does it not impose limitations on the texts we read, and on the very way we are supposed to read? The...
Paulin Ismard: “Comparatism and Slavery: Methods, Definitions, Issues”
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER About the Lecture I would like first to question the benefit that specialists of Greco-Roman slavery can gain from dialogue with the historians of slavery from other periods. Considering the question of the relationship between debt, servitude and slavery in archaic Greece, I will first show how recent approaches in the...
Ute Heidmann: “Differential, Dialogical, and Plurilingual Comparativism”
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER About the Lecture Differentiation denotes the process that relates the same to the different instead of opposing them. The evolution of all languages, literatures, and cultures seems to be underlain by such a complex process of differentiation. In order to explore this complex process, I developed a comparative method applying...
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