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Comp Lit Luncheon Archive

The Comparative Literature Luncheon series has been active since 2001!

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Apr 26, 2021
6:30 pm

Department Awards & Recognition

Apr 19, 2021
12:15 pm

Christine Okoth (University of Warwick), “Inexhaustibility and the Aesthetics of Reuse”

Apr 12, 2021
12:15 pm

Sookja Cho (Arizona State), “Tales of the Forgotten: The Story of Premodern Korean Literature and Its Interactions with China”

Apr 5, 2021
12:15 pm

Weihsin Gui (UC Riverside), “Hyphenational Poetics: Omar Musa’s Malaysian Australian Poetry”

Mar 29, 2021
12:15 pm

LAC Roundtable (Unraveling the Anthropocene) with Laura Anderson Barbata (Independent Artist) and Darren Ranco (University of Maine)

Mar 22, 2021
12:05 pm

Thomas Lamarre (McGill University), “Media Ecology: Television and Animation”

Mar 15, 2021
12:15 pm

Tom Chen (Lehigh University), “A Trans-Nationalist Cinema: North Korean Films in Socialist China”

Mar 1, 2021
12:15 pm

Leo Ching (Duke University), “Towards an Archipelagic East Asia: Taiwan, Jeju, Okinawa and Decontinentalization”

Feb 22, 2021
12:15 pm

Rose Jolly (Penn State), “BEYOND HUMAN RIGHTS – THE NOVEL AS RIGHT-MAKING ARTEFACT”

Feb 15, 2021
12:15 pm

Robin Visser (UNC-Chapel Hill), “Sinophone Anti-Epics of the Anthropocene”

Feb 8, 2021
12:15 pm

Zelideth Rivas (Marshall College), “Displaced evidence: Archival research and oral history across languages and cultures.”

Feb 1, 2021
12:15 pm

Leila Pazargadi (Nevada State College), “Autographics & The Archive: Visualizing Memory & Trauma in Southwestern Asian Graphic Memoirs”

Jan 25, 2021
12:15 pm

Reginald Jackson (University of Michigan), “Showing Up to Withhold: Economies of Enslavement and Spectacular Restraint in Medieval Japanese Performance”

Nov 16, 2020
12:15 pm

Kevin Platt (University of Pennsylvania), “Cultural Arbitrage in the Era of Thee Worlds: Art and Literature Across Cold War Borders.”

Nov 9, 2020
12:15 pm

Cajetan Nwabueze Iheka (Yale University), “The Niger Delta, Ecologies of Oil, and Trauma of the Future”

Nov 2, 2020
12:15 pm

Victoria Lupașcu (The University of Montréal), Romanian New Wave Cinema: Negotiating Health in Transitional Times

Oct 26, 2020
12:15 pm

Michael Hill (William & Mary), “Other Comparisons: Seeing Chinese Language Reform Through Arabic”

Oct 19, 2020
12:15 pm

Julia Alekseyeva (University of Pennsylvania), “Politics and Protest in the Japanese Allegorical Semi-Documentary”

Oct 12, 2020
12:15 pm

Nick Jones (Bucknell University), on “Staging Habla de Negros in Iberian Early Modernity”

Oct 5, 2020
12:15 pm

Yurou Zhong (University of Toronto), on “Chinese Grammatology: Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916–1958”

Sep 28, 2020
12:15 pm

Luis Álvarez Castro (University of Florida), on “Miguel de Unamuno’s Modernist Novel: On the Being of Fiction and the Fiction of the Being”

Sep 21, 2020
12:15 pm

Jeanmarie Higgins (PSU), “Absence and Presence in Theatrical Domestic Spaces”

Sep 14, 2020
12:15 pm

Anti-Racist Pedagogies: A Roundtable with Molly Appel (Nevada State College), Rose Jolly (PSU), and Eduardo Ramos (PSU). Jon Correa (PSU) to serve as moderator.

Apr 27, 2020
12:15 pm

Zelideth Rivas (Marshall University), “Displaced evidence: Archival research and oral history across languages and cultures.” CANCELLED

Apr 20, 2020
12:15 pm

Aimee Kwon (Duke University), CANCELLED

Apr 13, 2020
12:15 pm

Thomas Chen (Lehigh University), “Made in Censorship” CANCELLED

Apr 6, 2020
12:15 pm

Imani Owens (Rutgers University), “Canefields at Dusk: Black Writing and the U.S-Caribbean Geographies of the Harlem Renaissance” – CANCELLED

Mar 30, 2020
12:15 pm

Cajetan Iheka (Yale University), “Traumatic Ecologies of Oil: The Niger Delta Example in Curse of the Black Gold” – CANCELLED

Mar 23, 2020
12:15 pm

Bruce Robbins (Columbia University), “Here There Is No Why: Atrocity, History, Meaning” – CANCELLED

Mar 2, 2020
12:15 pm

Travis Workman (University of Minnesota), “Legacies of Japan’s Imperial Humanism in ‘Postcolonial’ Korea”

Feb 24, 2020
12:15 pm

Jon Abel (Penn State), “The Prima Donna and the Copyright Hound: When Cultural Reappropriation Becomes a Copywrong”

Feb 17, 2020
12:15 pm

Michele Kennerly (Penn State), “The Forests of Rhetoric”

Feb 10, 2020
12:15 pm

Jeffrey Lawrence (Rutgers University), “Social Movements and Contemporary American Literature”

Feb 3, 2020
12:15 pm

Preetha Mani (Rutgers University), “Comparative Worldings: The Case of Indian Literatures”

Dec 2, 2019
12:15 pm

Eugene Park: “A Genealogy of Dissent: The Progeny of Fallen Royals in Chosŏn Korea”

Nov 18, 2019
12:15 pm

Michelle Clayton: “Dancing Returns: Mallarmé, Museums, Modernism”

Nov 4, 2019
12:15 pm

Laura Marshall: “Steampunk Argonautica: Apollonius of Rhodes and the Presocratics.”

Oct 28, 2019
12:15 pm

Steve Heine: “THE FIVE HOUSES OF ZEN BUDDHISM: Historical and Rhetorical Scope of a Ubiquitous Song-Dynasty Religious Trope.”

Oct 21, 2019
12:15 pm

Katherine Zien: “Rehearsing Revolution and Counterrevolution during Latin America’s Cold War”

Oct 7, 2019
12:15 pm

Lily Saint: “Ethics and Reception in Apartheid South Africa”

Sep 30, 2019
12:15 pm

Brian Kim: “Foreign Languages and How (Not) to Learn Them: Stories, Trends, and Debates from Late Imperial Russia”

Sep 23, 2019
12:15 pm

Ignacio Lopez-Calvo: “Biopolitics, Orientalism, and the Asian Immigrant as Monster in Salazar’s La medianoche del japonésand Rodríguez’s Asesinato en una lavandería china”

Sep 16, 2019
12:15 pm

Jacques Bromberg: “Classics and the Global”

Sep 9, 2019
12:15 pm

Joseph Rosenberg: “Paper Bombs”

Apr 22, 2019
12:15 pm

Curie Virag: “The Garden as a Site of Pleasure in China and Byzantium: What We Can Learn from Comparing Medieval Traditions”

Apr 15, 2019
12:15 pm

Tarek El-Ariss: TBD

Apr 8, 2019
12:15 pm

Roopika Risam: “Insurgents of Academe: Historicizing Public Humanities in the African Diaspora”

Apr 1, 2019
12:15 pm

David Fieni: “Dreyfus in Algeria”

Mar 25, 2019
12:15 pm

Monica Popescu: “Mythologies of Realism and Modernism: African Literature and the Cold War”

Mar 18, 2019
12:15 pm

Jonathan Eburne: “Book Talk: Outsider Theory”