CNET Schedule
Some sessions of the Comparative Literature Lunch Series are recorded for subsequent broadcast on C-NET, the government and education access network of Centre Country, Pennsylvania, which uses CETV (Channel 98). C-Net programming comes from the network's eleven member agencies, of which Penn State University is one.
After the scheduled broadcasts, programs may be available for use in Comparative Literature courses. Please contact Lynn Setzler at 814 863-0589 for information.
The broadcasts appear on a regular weekly schedule, as follows; the week after the presentation:
Tuesdays 9pm
Thursdays 10am
Fridays 10pm
Saturdays 2pm
Sundays 4pm
SPRING SEMESTER, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008 (Broadcast the week of Feb. 18)
Neil Larsen (Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory, University of California, Davis): "Towards a Critical Theory of 'Theory'"
Monday, February 18, 2008 (Broadcast the week of Feb. 25)
Randy J. Ploog (Coordinator of International Programs, College of Arts and Architecture and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Art History, Penn State University): "The Mitchell Dawson Collection at the Newberry Library: Remnants of a Double Life"
Monday, February 25, 2008 (Broadcast the week of March 3)
Hermann Herlinghaus (Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh): "Violence Without Guilt: Ethical Narratives from the Globalized South"
Monday, March 3, 2008 (Broadcast the week of March 10)
Ruben Gallo (Associate Professor of Spanish, Princeton University): "Freud's Pre-Columbian Antiquities"
Monday, March 10, 2008
SPRING BREAK
Monday, March 17, 2008 (Broadcast the week of March 24)
Bettina Brandt (Assistant Professor of German, Montclair State University): "Herta Müller's Scissor Script: Collage, Advertising, and the Practices of the Avant-Garde"
Monday, March 24, 2008 (Broadcast the week of March 31)
Rebecca Walkowitz (Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University): Making World Literature: J.M. Coetzee and the Transnational Novel"
Monday, March 31, 2008 (Broadcast the week of April 7)
Jane Gallop (Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): Title to be announced
Monday, April 7, 2008 (Broadcast the week of April 14)
Heather Love (M. Mark and Esther K. Watkins Assistant Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania): "To Be a Problem, To Be an Exception: Du Bois and Modern Stigma"
Monday, April 14, 2008 (Broadcast the week of April 21)
Martha Schoolman (Assistant Professor of English, Miami University of Ohio): "Violent Places: Travel, Reform and Revolution in William Wells Brown's Three Years in Europe"
Monday, April 21, 2008 (Broadcast the week of April 28)
Irene Makaryk (Vice-Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, University of Ottawa): "Modernism, the Berezil Theatre, and the Paris Art Deco Exhibition of 1925."
Monday, April 28, 2008 (Broadcast the week of May 5)
Michael Taylor (The Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art): "Body Matters: Marcel Duchamp's Etant donné Revisited"
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