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. Click here for C-NET archive of broadcast in streaming video.
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) "In Praise of Indiscretion: Pedro Almodvar's Law of Desire"
Monday, November 9, 2009
"Who Owns African Literature: A Roundtable Discussion"
Participants:
Helon Habila (Assistant Professor of English, George Mason University)
Binyavanga Wainaina (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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