Comparative Literature Student-Faculty Colloquium

Fall 2006 - Spring 2007

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

Fall 2006 Colloquium
Organized by:
Celina Hung and Ketty Thomas, Graduate Students, Department of CLCS

12:40pm - 2:00pm, Wednesday, October 11, 2006
The Humanities Institute, Room 1009

Agnes Skrodzka-Bates, Graduate Student, CLCS, "How East Central Europe Is Sabotaging the European Union: Embracing Periphery Against Modernity"

Jacqueline Reich, Professor, CLCS and European Languages, "Men, Italian Style: The Male Body, National Identity, and 20th Century Visual Culture"

12:40pm - 2:00pm, Wednesday, November 1, 2006
The Humanities Institute, Room 1009

Kristin Pape, Graduate Student, CLCS, "Girl, Knife, Tooth, Tongue: A Love Story"

Ira Livingston, Professor, CLCS, "Dumb Luck versus Intelligent Design in Origin-of-Life Metaphors"

12:40pm - 2:00pm, Wednesday, November 29, 2006
The Humanities Institute, Room 1009

Xiaoning L, Graduate Student, CLCS, "Big Li, Young Li, and Old Li: Mass Sport and Meta-Narrative of the New Physical Culture in Maoist China"

12:40pm - 2:00pm, Wednesday, December 6, 2006
The Humanities Institute, Room 1009

Ketty Thomas , Graduate Student, CLCS, "Lazarus, Zombie of the West: The Emergence of Resurrection Narratives in Haiti"

Neda Atanasoski, Professor, CLCS, "The Politics of Terror and Redemption: Race and Spirituality in Hollywood's 9/11"

Spring 2007 Colloquium

12:40pm -2:00pm, Wednesday, The Humanities Institute, Room 1008

Feburary 21, 2007
Ashar Foley, Graduate Student, CLCS, "She'll Come Through it, the True Golden Gold: Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend and Edwin Chadwick's Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Laboring Population of Great Britain"

Ling Hon Lam, Visiting Professor, CLCS, "An Unmemorable Name List at the End of the Phonetic Quest in The FLowers in the Mirror (Jin Hua Yuan) "

March 28, 2007
Juan A. Gomez, Graduate Student, CLCS, "Desire, History, Language: The Balladizing Calligraphies of Pedro Lemebel"

John Lutterbie, Professor, Theater Department, "The Blink of an Eye: The Performing Body in Everyday Life"

April 18, 2007
Joshua Meissner, Graduate Student, CLCS
Helen Cooper, Professor, English Department, "From Idol to Buddha: Buddhism, from the Imperial Heart of Darkness to Contemporary Multicultural Britain"

May 2, 2007
Ruby I-Ju Chen, Graduate Student, CLCS
Professor Sandy Petrey, "What is Comparative Literature Methodology?"

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