SPRING 2008

February 2008

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE
COFFEE HOUR

Tuesday, February 19th (Comp Lit Graduate Student Lounge): 4:30 pm:

Why major or minor in comparative literature? If you’re considering a major or minor in comp lit come to this coffee hour to learn about the department and find out if its right for you.  If you’re already a major or minor please come to advise the undecided and discuss why you chose your course of study.

For more information, contact:

Sarah Stein (sbstein@emory.edu), or Josh Backer (joshua.backer@learnlink.emory.edu)

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE READING THEORY
GROUP SESSION

Thursday, February 21st, to be held in Callaway Seminar Room N106 from 7:00-9:00pm

Figuring the Body: Boundaries of Sensation, Limits of Perception
The Toon Body: (dis)Ability, Prosthesis, and the Corpo-Real

For recommended readings please go to:

http://theory.abyssal-monsters.com/figuring_the_body

FUTURE SESSIONS:

*Senseless Bodies: Sexuation, (re)Production, Decay

*Making Sense of Non-Sense: Sex and Gender

(To be held March 6th, 27th, and April 10th)

For more information, please contact:

Patrick Blanchfield (pblanch@emory.edu)
Ben Hilb (bhilb@emory.edu)
Asher Haig (ahaig@emory.edu)

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Thomas Adam Pepper, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota

Lecture on Thursday February 28 at 4:30pm in White Hall 103 (followed by reception)

" ' Maelstrom -- in the Sky -- ':  War and Nihilism in 3-D":
This lecture focusses on hidden alliances of thought concerning war and nihilism in works by Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, and Carl Schmitt.  While 1945 is the cliché of postmodernity's date of birth, a crucial text from Walter Benjamin's One-Way Street (1926) helps unmask this shibboleth as well as the regimes that think in such coinages. Written more than two decades before Carl Schmitt's The Nomos of the Earth in the Ius Publicum Europaeum and Martin  Heidegger's lecture course What is Called Thinking?, Benjamin's text forces a reconsideration of the power of the relationship between the waging of war above the surface of the earth and the thinking of nihilism.

Seminar on Friday February 29 at 11am in Callaway N106 (with refreshments)

"Unmarried Bachelors: Marguerite Duras's La Maladie de la mort considered according to the grammar of 'persons'"

For more information, please contact:

Scott Branson (sbranso@emory.edu), or Jacqueline Abrams (jacqueline.abrams@emory.edu)

 

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March 2008

2ND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COFFEE HOUR

 Wednesday, March 19 (Comp Lit Graduate Student Lounge) 4:30pm:

Comparative Literature and the Canon: Should we have one or not? Comparative literature is often singled out for not having a canon.  Some think this allows for freedom of thought and study while others accuse the field of being disorganized.  What do you think?  Come give your  opinions on this important and ongoing intellectual debate.

For more information, contact:

Sarah Stein (sbstein@emory.edu), or Josh Backer (joshua.backer@learnlink.emory.edu)

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HANNAH ARENDT CIRCLE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

The schedule for the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Hannah Arendt Circle is not set and has been published on-line at the Arendt Circle Website. The conference is co-sponsored by the Department of Philosopy and Comparative Literature Department and will take place on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 28-30 March 2008. The link for the on-line program is as follows:

http://www.arendtcircle.com/ournextmeeting

If there are persons in other departments who might be interested in the conference, please forward them this link. Finally, if you have any questions about the program, please contact me. Thank you.

Adrian Switzer, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy
Emory University
214 Bowden Hall
Atlanta, GA 30322
adrian.switzer@emory.edu

 

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April 2008

3RD COMPARATIVE LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COFFEE HOUR

 Tuesday, April 15 (Comp Lit Graduate Student Lounge) 4:30pm:

What are your summer plans?  Travel? Work? Relaxing?  What are you going to be up to this summer?  Come to this coffee hour to give and get great ideas for summer travel, work, volunteering and reading.

For more information, contact:

Sarah Stein (sbstein@emory.edu), or Josh Backer (joshua.backer@learnlink.emory.edu)

 

FALL 2008

EVENTS TO BE ANNOUNCED

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Reading On: A Journal of Theory and Criticism