Comparative Literature Student-Faculty Colloquium

Fall 2007 - Spring 2008

Organized by Elizabeth Mannir and Claire Burrows, Graduate Students, Department of CLCS

Sponsored by CLCS and the GSO, with support from the Humanities Institute.

Spring 2008 Colloquium

12:50pm -2:00pm, Wednesday, February 13, 2008
The Humanities Institute, Room 1008

Krin Gabbard, Professor, CLCS, "Singing the Demise of the Classical Musical"

John Larson, Graduate Student, CLCS, "1 Tongue, 2 Speakers, and 3 Modes: Imagery of the Mouth in La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas"

12:50pm -2:00pm, Wednesday, March 5, 2008
The Humanities Institute, Room 1008

E. Ann Kaplan, Professor, CLCS, "Women, Trauma and Late Modernity (1960-1980): Themes of Silencce and Voluntary Mutism in Select Films of Sontag and Duras"

Elizabeth Mannir, Graduate Student, "The Map of Love to Imaginary Orients: 'Sheik Romances' from E.M. Hull to Ahdaf Soueif"

12:50pm -2:00pm, Wednesday, April 23, 2008
The Humanities Institute, Room 1008

Jose M. Armengol, "Of Friendship: Revisiting Friendships between Men in Cultural and Literary History"

Charlotta Beavers, "Subversive Dreaming: Reconstituting Science Fiction"

Lisa Manz, "Recalling 9-11: Kitsch, Consumerism and Patriotism in Television and Hollywood Representations of 9/11"

Amanda Shapiro, "Western European Films and Their American Remakes"

Fall 2007 Colloquium

12:40pm - 2:00pm, Wednesday, September 19, 2007
The Humanities Institute, Room 1009

E.K.Tan, Assistant Professor, CLCS, "Dystopia in Reality: Restructuring Human Relations in Lee Kang-Sheng's The Missing"

12:40pm - 2:00pm, Wednesday, October 17, 2007
The Humanities Institute, Room 1009

Patrice Ngannang, Assistant Professor, CLCS, "Towards a Theory of Instruments"

Hans Staats, Graduate Student

12:40pm - 2:00pm, Wednesday, November 7, 2007
The Humanities Institute, Room 1009

Dabashree Dattary, Visiting Scholar, CLCS
Anne Cunningham, Graduate Student, CLCS

12:40pm - 2:00pm, Wednesday, December 5, 2007
The Humanities Institute, Room 1009

Ann Kaplan, Professor, CLCS, Title TBA
Elizabeth Mannir, Graduate Student, CLCS

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