Colloquy on Asia
in the Era of Globalization (CAEG)
BOUNDARIES
A TWO-YEAR GENERATIVE PROGRAM
FUNDED BY THE INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Presents...
Professor Haun Saussy
"A
Plea for a Longer and Wider History of Globalization"
Monday January 31 at 12:40 in 102 Kern Building
This lecture is part of the Comparative Literature Brown Bag
Luncheon.
Everyone is invited to bring a lunch and meet in 102 Kern at
12:15.
Coffee and tea will be provided free of charge.
Prof. Saussy is the author of Great Walls of
Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China and The Problem of a
Chinese Aesthetic (this book won the 1996 Rene Wellek prize) and the editor
of Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization: The 2005 ACLA Report
on the State of the Discipline. Of special interest to us are Prof.
Saussy's works on aesthetics, philosophy of language, German, French, Italian,
Latin, Greek, Caribbean and premodern Chinese literatures. His current book
projects include Three Haitian Poets: René Depestre, Jean Métellus, and René
Bélance; The Ethnography of Rhythm, and a translation of Karl Rosenkranz's
Aesthetik des Häßlichen.
This visit is co-sponsored by East Asian Studies
and the Department of Comparative Literature.
This
lecture is free and open to the public.
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