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 Eburne (jpe11@psu.edu) is the coordinator 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.
SPRING SEMESTER, 2008
Friday, January 18, 2008
*Comparative Literature Luncheon will be held in 402 Burrowes (formerly 304) today*
Job candidate for Japanese position.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
*Comparative Literature Luncheon will be held in 402 Burrowes (formerly 304) today*
Job candidate for Japanese position.
Friday, January 25, 2008
*Comparative Literature Luncheon will be held in 402 Burrowes (formerly 304) today*
Job candidate for African Literature position.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Job candidate for African Literature position.
Friday, February 1, 2008
Job candidate for Japanese position.
Monday, February 4, 2008
Job candidate for African Literature position.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Neil Larsen (Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory, University of California, Davis): "Towards a Critical Theory of 'Theory'"
Monday, February 18, 2008
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
Sophia A. McClennen (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Spanish, and Women's Studies, Penn State University): "The Curse of Neoliberalism: Sex and Social Violence in Y tu mamá también and The Nanny and the Iceberg"
Monday, March 3, 2008
Ruben Gallo (Associate Professor of Spanish, Princeton University): "Freud's Pre-Columbian Antiquities"
Monday, March 10, 2008
SPRING BREAK
Monday, March 17, 2008
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
Rebecca Walkowitz (Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University): "Making World Literature: J.M. Coetzee and the Transnational Novel"
Monday, March 31, 2008
Jane Gallop (Institute for the Arts and Humanities Distinguished Visiting Professor): "The Value of Close Reading"
Monday, April 7, 2008
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
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
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
Michael Taylor (The Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art): "Body Matters: Marcel Duchamp's Etant donné Revisited"
phone: 814.863.0589 | fax: 814.863.8882 | email: cmlit@psu.edu
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