Comp Lit Luncheon Series
The Comparative Literature Luncheon is a weekly informal lunchtime gathering of students, faculty, and other members of the University community. Each week there is a short (20 minute) presentation, by a visitor or a local speaker, on a topic related to any humanities discipline.
Jonathan Abel (jea17@psu.edu) and Shuang Shen (sxs1075@psu.edu) are the coordinators for the series this semester. We meet Mondays in 102 Kern at about 12:15 p.m. You can bring your lunch or buy a lunch tray in Kern Cafeteria (next door) and bring it into 102. Coffee and tea are provided in 102 (no charge). The speaker will begin at about 12:30 p.m. Allowing a few minutes for discussion, we'll conclude in time for classes that meet at 1:25 p.m. All students, faculty, colleagues, and friends are welcome.
Click here for information regarding our luncheons from previous semesters.
We're on the air: Recordings of these presentations are broadcast on C-NET, the regional cable network for educational and government programming. Each program is usually broadcast 4 times in the week following the date listed here. Click here for the schedule of broadcasts for this semester. Click here for C-NET archive of broadcast in streaming video.
Or, download the talks at iTunes U.
The 2011-2012 Comparative Literature Luncheon is sponsored in part by a generous contribution from the Center for Global Studies.
SPRING SEMESTER, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
"The Art of Stephen Colbert: Satire and Democracy," Sophia McClennen, Penn State
Monday, January 30, 2012
"Narrative and Intellectual Disability," Michael Berube, Penn State
Monday, Feburary 6, 2012
"Literary History in the Posthistorical University: The Division of Francophone Studies," Vincent Bruyere, Penn State
Monday, February 13, 2012
"Parallel Lives: Bolivar and the Classical Poets of the Revolution," German Campos-Munoz, Penn State
Monday, February 20, 2012
"Strategic Amnesia: Postcolonial Studies and the Second World," Nancy Condee, Universty of Pittsburgh
Monday, February 27, 2012
"Being There: Writing from the Indian Sub-continent," Sharmistha Mohanty, Indian Writer
Monday, March 12, 2012
"The Teleologies of Modernism: Toward a Transitional Theory," Christopher Hill, Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia
University
Monday, March 19, 2012
"Literature and Politics in Communist Albania and the Parables of Dictatorship in the Prose of Ismail Kadare," Baviola Shatro, "Aleksander Moisiu" University, Durres, Albania
Monday, March 26, 2012
"After Midnight: Realism and the Indian Emergency," Susan Z. Andrade, University of Pittsburgh
Monday, April 2, 2012
"On Transtromer," Aldon Nielsen, Penn State, and Douglas Messerli, poet and the Director of The Contemporary Arts Educational Project, Inc.
Monday, April 9, 2012
PANEL: "Thinking beyond the Region," Jon Abel, Andrea Bachner, and Michelle Decker, Penn State
Monday, April 16, 2012
"Geoncide, Science, and Ethnosuicide, The Extirpation of Idolitries in the Colonial Andes and a Contemporary Variant," Jose Rabasa, Harvard
Monday, April 23, 2012
"Culture in the Age of One World," Michael Denning, Yale University
phone: 814.863.0589 | fax: 814.863.8882 | email: cmlit@psu.edu
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