Comparative Literature's Fall Reception
09/14/2009;
4:00PM to 7:00PM
Reception to welcome new Compartative Literature graduate students.
Graduate Student Orientation
09/03/2009;
9:30AM to 4:00PM
Orientation for new Comparative Literature graduate students.
Comparative Literature's Commencement Reception 2009
05/01/2009;
2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Reception for Comparative Literature's graduating students and their families.
SPRING CONFERENCE: COMPARATIVE EARLY MODERNITIES: 1100-1800
04/17/2009;
9:00AM to 5:00PM
Featuring conversations among twelve leading scholars of early modern Asia, Europe, and South America, this interdisciplinary conference will showcase novel comparative perspectives in the fields of literary, social, art, and economic history and re-examine the theoretical and methodological premises of comparative historical studies.
On Translating African Poetry: A Conversation with Sekepe Matjila and Keith Taylor
04/14/2009;
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Sekepe Matjila and Keith Taylor will talk about the translation of Setswana poetry by LD Raditladi, who combines indigenous African and Western influences in his poems. Matjila is Director...
Lecture with Denise Ferreira da Silva
04/01/2009;
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Rivers of Blood: Raciality, Violence, and the Possibility of Global Justice
On Translating Romanian Poetry: A Conversation with Liliana Ursu and Sean Cotter
03/31/2009;
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Translation lunch on Romanian Poetry.
Workshop with Wendy Doniger: Translating Asian Literature
03/25/2009;
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
TBD
The 13th Annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum
03/13/2009;
1:00PM to 3:00PM
What does "the abnormal" refer to? How is our understanding of the term mediated by cultural, legal or religious practices, and institutions? What are the social, political, and historical implications of thinking in terms of norms? And finally, what is the abnormal's role as a category in different disciplines both within the humanities and in the social sciences?
Lecture with Lorna Hardwick: The Democratic Turn in Reception Studies
03/05/2009;
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
This lecture considers how ancient drama and poetry has been translated and adapted into new works, with examples that show the variety of people and practices that are involved worldwide, from Africa to Europe, the Middle –East, the Caribbean and the Americas. However it is not enough to appreciate how each generation and culture inscribes new layers of meaning into Greek and Latin texts. It is also necessary to consider how the ancient themes and forms shape modern meaning, making the notion of modern ‘democratic’ appropriation of classical texts a contested issue.
A Conversation wiith Rachel Tzvia Back: Translating Hebrew Poetry
03/03/2009;
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
This conversation will focus on the translation on modern hebrew poetry with Rachel Tzvia Back.
This event is sponsored by the Department of Compartative Literature and the Department of Judiac Studies at the University of Michigan.
Research Seminar with Haiping Yang: Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination
02/18/2009;
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
In this research seminar, Haiping Yan will discuss two pre-circulated chapters from her book, Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination 1905-1948 (Routledge 2006). This book re-visits the legacies of the Chinese revolution, to tell a different "China story."
"The Fruits of Labor: Abolitionist Rhetoric and the Law of the Free Womb in Nineteenth Century Brazilian Fiction"
02/04/2009;
4:00PM to 6:00PM
Jessica Callaway
Visiting Lecturer, CAAS, RLL, and LACS
Comparative Literature Ph.D., Harvard University
ON "THEORY" IN THE UNIVERSITY
01/23/2009;
2:00PM to 4:00PM
A Conversation with Professor Stephen Melville,
Co-sponsored by German and Comparative Literature
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