Past Events — Comparative Literature

Stanley Weintraub (Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities, Penn State University): "Henry Williamson, Adolf Hitler, and the Obsessive 1914 Christmas Truce."

When	Apr 01, 2002 from 12:15 PM to 01:25 PM
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Cecilia Novero (Assistant Professor of German, Penn State University): "Spinning the Text: DJ meets Feminist Theory in a Contemporary German Novel."

When	Mar 25, 2002 from 12:15 PM to 01:25 PM
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Kang Liu (Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature): "Reinventing the 'Red Classics' in the Age of Globalization."

When	Mar 18, 2002 from 12:15 PM to 01:25 PM
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Anthony Tamburri (Professor of Italian and Italian/American Literature, Chair, Languages and Linguistics Interim Chair, English, Florida Atlantic University): "Italian/American Literature: Where It Began and Where Is It Going?"

When	Mar 11, 2002 from 12:05 PM to 01:25 PM
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Willa Silverman (Associate Professor of French, Penn State University): "Of Books and Book Women: Discourses on Women's Reading Practices in Fin-de-Siecle France."

When	Feb 25, 2002 from 12:15 PM to 01:25 PM
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Dorothea Loebbermann (Research Fellow at the Center for Literary Studies, Zentrum für Literaturfoschung, Berlin): "Performances of Memory: 1920s' Harlem in fictional representations."

When	Feb 18, 2002 from 12:15 PM to 01:25 PM
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Vera Mark (Assistant Professor of French and Linguistics, Penn State University): "What's in a Date? Literary Archeology and Popular Memory."

When	Feb 11, 2002 from 12:15 PM to 01:25 PM
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Pius Adesanmi (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Candidate For Faculty Position in Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "Notebook(s) of a Return to the Native Land: The Ethnospatial Question in African Literatures."

When	Feb 04, 2002 from 12:15 PM to 01:25 PM
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Cary Fraser (Assistant Professor, Department of African and African American Studies, Penn State University): "Forging a Diasporic Sensibility: The Caribbean as a Site of Alternative Identity."

When	Jan 28, 2002 from 12:15 PM to 01:25 PM
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Richard Kopley (Associate Professor, Department of English, Penn State University): "Additional Allusions in Frederick Douglass's Narrative: The Declaration of Independence and Poe's 'The tell-Tale Heart.'"

When	Jan 21, 2002 from 12:15 PM to 01:25 PM
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Aldon Lynn Nielsen (George and Barbara Kelly Professor, Department of English, Penn State University): "Melville on Trial: C.L.R. James and the Tribunal."

When	Jan 14, 2002 from 12:15 PM to 01:25 PM
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Panel Discussion on the Nobel Prize for Literature: "The Significance of V.S. Naipaul as the 2001 Recipient."

When	Dec 03, 2001 from 12:15 PM to 01:25 PM
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The discussants are:

Carol Motta (Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature, Penn State University)

Cary Fraser (Assistant Professor, African and African American Studies, Penn State University)

Daniel Walden (Emeritus Professor of American Studies, English, and Comparative Literature, Penn State University)

Bill Welch, Mayor, State College

Professor Robin Becker (Department of English, Penn State University): "Where Lyric Joins Narrative: A Poetry Reading and Discussion with Robin Becker."

When	Nov 26, 2001 from 12:15 PM to 01:25 PM
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Professor Robin Becker (Department of English, Penn State University): "Where Lyric Joins Narrative: A Poetry Reading and Discussion with Robin Becker."

When	Nov 26, 2001 from 12:15 PM to 01:25 PM
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Associate Professor Marie Secor (Department of English, Penn State University): "Emotion and Rhetoric: Darwin's Earthworms and The Expression of Emotion in Animals."

When	Nov 19, 2001 from 12:15 PM to 01:25 PM
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Professor Fred Gardaphé (SUNY, Stony Brook): "From Wiseguys to Wise Men: The Gangster Figure in Italian American Culture"

When	Nov 12, 2001 from 12:15 PM to 01:25 PM
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Professor Santiago Vaquera (Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, Penn State University): "Limit, Divide, Gateway: Re/thinking the Borderlands."

When	Nov 05, 2001 from 12:15 PM to 01:25 PM
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Nancy Marie Brown (Director, Research Publications and Policy, Penn State University): "Medieval Icelandic Sagas and Modern Icelandic Realities: The Writing of 'A Good Horse Has No Color.'"

When	Oct 29, 2001 from 12:15 PM to 01:25 PM
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Professor Paul Jay (Loyola University, Chicago): "Global Culture, Comparative Literature, and Institutional Change"

When	Oct 22, 2001 from 12:15 PM to 01:25 PM
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Professor John Carlos Rowe (University of California, Irvine): "Comparative American Studies."

When	Oct 15, 2001 from 12:15 PM to 01:25 PM
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