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 - 10:00 a.m.
Thursdays - 6:00 p.m.
Fridays - 10:00 p.m.
Saturdays - 4:00 p.m.
Sundays- 1:00 p.m.
FALL SEMESTER, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Claire Colebrook (Professor of English, Penn State University): "The Ethics of Extinction"
Monday, September 21, 2009
Rudolf Kuenzli (Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Iowa): "Interventionist Collage: From Dada to the Present"
Monday, September 28, 2009
*Comparative Literature Luncheon will be held in 402 Burrowes (formerly 304) today*Charlotte Eubanks (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies) "Turning the Wheel of the Dharma: Buddhist Book History"
Monday, October 5, 2009
Manthia Diawara (Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Institute of Afro-American Affairs and Director of the Africana Studies Program, New York University) "Jean Prouve's 'Maisons Tropicales', or Architecture as Discourse on colonialism"
Monday, October 12, 2009
John Horgan (Director, International Center for the Study of Terrorism and Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society, Penn State University): "Walking Away: Disengagement and De-Radicalization from Terrorism"
Monday, October 19, 2009
Rita Barnard (Professor of English and Director of the Women's Studies Program and the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women and Gender, University of Pennsylvania): "On National Literature and Globalization"
Monday, October 26, 2009
Su Fang Ng (Associate Professor of English, University of Oklahoma) "Dutch Wars, Global Poems: Dryden's Annus Mirabilis (1666) and Amin's Syair Perang Mengkasar (1670)"
Monday, November 2, 2009
Bradley Epps (Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Chair, Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University) Topic to be announced
Monday, November 9, 2009
"Who Owns African Literature: A Roundtable Discussion"
Participants:
Helon Habila (Assistant Professor of English, George Mason University
Binyavanga Wainana (Director of the Achebe Center, Bard College)
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley (Assistant Professor of English, Penn State Altoona)
Moderator: Gabeba Baderoon (Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and African and African American Studies, Penn State University)
Monday, November 16, 2009
"Strunk and White's *The Elements of Style* at 50: A Roundtable Discussion." Participants:
Robin Schulze (Professor and Head, Department of English, Penn State University)
William Cobb ( Professor and Director of the MFA Program, Penn State University)
Scott Smith (Assistant Professor of English, Penn State University)
Monday, November 30, 2009
Fall Break
Monday, December 7, 2009
Jean-Pierre Le Dantec (Professor and Director, School of Architecture, University of Paris-La-Villette): "The Sustainable City in the 21st Century: The Case of the Grand Paris"
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