FALL 2008

September 2008

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE
COFFEE HOUR

Monday, September 22nd (Comp Lit Seminar Classroom, Callaway N106) 7:00 pm:

For more information, contact:

Jacqueline Abrams (jacqueline.abrams@emory.edu), or Benjamin Hilb (bhilb@emory.edu)

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October 2008

The Department of Comparative Literature
With the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts,
The Department of English, and the
Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry

Invites you to a lecture by

Professor Timothy Morton

entitled

The Ecological Thought

When: Thursday, October 2nd at 4:15p.m.
Where: White Hall 103
There will be a reception following the talk.

Timothy Morton is Professor in the Department of English at the University of California Davis and the author of Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics (Harvard 2007), The Poetics of Spice: Romantic Consumerism and the Exotic (Cambridge 2000), Shelley and the Revolution in Taste: The Body and the Natural World (Cambridge 1994) and the editior of numerous collections on the cultures of food and emergent environmentalisms in the eighteenth- and nineteenth centuries.

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE READING THEORY
GROUP SESSION I

Thursday, October 9th (Comp Lit Seminar Classroom, Callaway N106) from 7:00-9:00pm:

Titled

Übershort Fiction

Session 1: As Short As It Gets

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How short can you make a story until it stops being a story? And wait -- what does it mean to be "short" at all? The Undergraduate Theory Reading Group is delighted to kick off a long season of Shortness with its first of four events - come eat, read a short page of even shorter stories, and talk at length or as little as you want in the company of your brilliant, variously-sized Undergraduate Peers. Food (in largish sizes) will be provided and the setting is as casual as it gets. Come and get your shortness on!

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short (adj.) Old English sceort, scort, probably from Proto-Germanic *skurta- (cf. Old Norse skorta "to be short of," skort "shortness;""), from PIE base *sker- "to cut," with notion of "something cut off" (cf. Sanskrit krdhuh "shortened, maimed, small;" Latin curtus "short," cordus "late-born," originally "stunted in growth;"). Meaning "rude" is attested from 1390. Shorty "short person" is recorded from 1888.  To fall short is from archery. Shortage is attested from 1868. Short cut is from 1568. Short fuse in fig. sense of "quick temper" first attested 1968. Short story first recorded 1877. Short list dates from 1927. To make short work of is first attested 1577. Phrase short and sweet is from 1539.*

*Source: The Online Etymological Dictionary (www.etymonline.com)

Readings available at

http://www.abyssal-monsters.com/ubershort_fiction

For more information, please contact:

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

Please mark your calendars for future dates:

October 30th
November 13th
December 4th

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November 2008

The Comparative Literature Department at Emory University

Presents

Greg Lambert
Syracuse University

On "Globalatinization": Derrida's Word for "The Return of Religion"

Thursday, November 6th, 2008
White Hall 111
7:15pm

Co-Sponsored by the Departments of Religion, English, French, German, Spanish & Portuguese, and the ILA

For more information, please contact the
Department of Comparative Literature

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The Department of Comparative Literature
invites you to join us for

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE READING THEORY
GROUP SESSION II

Thursday, November 13th (Comp Lit Seminar Classroom, Callaway N106) from 7:00-9:00pm:

Randy Newman's 1977 mega-hit single, "Short People (Don't Got No Reason to Live), not only won a spot as Billboard's #2, but also prompted the Maryland State Legislature to pursue legislation to ban it from airways, so offensive was it deemed by some. But if Newman's claiming (tongue-in-cheek) that "the Short" lead meaningless lives hit a chord, how should we react to Samuel Beckett when he questions the meaning of *everybody's* (and not just the diminutive in stature) lives in a story that is CRAZY SHORT.

SHORT AND SWEET. This week, The UG THEORY READING GROUP will be tackling Beckett's 500-word "Fizzle Four". It's about eating and physical frenzy, and will be the perfect accompaniment to an evening (Thursday 7 - 9) of FREE FOOD and (casual) MENTAL FRENZY in Callaway N106. You don't have to read anything until you get there. And then you can say *anything you want*. Except telling short people they have no reason to live.

In Shortness,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NvgLkuEtkA

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE!

For more information, please contact:

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

Please mark your calendars for Session III:

December 4th

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2ND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COFFEE HOUR

To Be Announced

For more information, contact:

Jacqueline Abrams (jacqueline.abrams@emory.edu), or Benjamin Hilb (bhilb@emory.edu)

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SPRING 2009

February 2009

The Department of Comparative Literature Department is pleased to announce a lecture and seminar by Professor Philippe Van Haute

On February 23, Professor Van Haute will be giving a lecture, “Between Disposition, Trauma and History: How Oedipal was Dora?” The lecture will be held in White Hall, 110 at 4:15.  Professor Van Haute will also be giving a seminar on Wednesday, February 25 “Lacan Reads Hamlet: Between Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology.”  The seminar will be held from 1-3 in Callaway N106 and is open to all interested faculty and graduate students.  These events are co-sponsored by the Department of French and the Psychoanalytic Studies Program.

Professor Van Haute is Professor of Philosophical Anthropology at the University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands) and has been president of the Belgian School of Psychoanalysis since 2005.  His research and teaching focus on philosophical anthropology, with a special emphasis on the relation between psychoanalysis and philosophy in the development of a psychoanalytically inspired clinical anthropology. He is particularly interested in the role of psychopathology in the understanding of human beings (patho-analysis of existence), the philosophical significance of (theories of) psychotherapy, in the epistemological status of nosographic taxa and how the philosophical tradition (especially phenomenology) has dealt with psychopathology. In this context he is currently preparing a book on Freud’s ‘Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality’.

His publications include: -

Against Adaptation. Jacques Lacan’s Subversion of the Subject, Other Press, New York, 2002.

- (with T. Geyskens) Confusion of Tongues. The Primacy of Sexuality in Freud, Ferenczi and Laplanche, Other Press, New York, 2004 (translation of 3). This book was on the short list of the Gradiva Award of the National Association for the advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP/USA) in 2005.

- Infantile Sexuality, Primary Object-Love and the Meta-psychological Status of the Oedipus complex: Re-reading Freuds ‘On Female Sexuality’, International Journal for Psychoanalysis 2005 (86), 1661-78

- Psychoanalysis and/or Philosophy? The philosophical anthropological significance of Freud’s ‘Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality’, (SPEP supplement). Philosophy Today, 50 (2006), 90-96

- (with Tomas Geyskens) From death drive to Attachment theory. The Primacy of the Child in Freud, Klein and Hermann, Other press, New York, 2007.

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The Department of Comparative Literature
invites you to join us for

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE READING THEORY
GROUP SESSION II

Tuesday, February 24th (Comp Lit Seminar Classroom, Callaway N106) from 7:00-9:00pm

Announcement and details will be forthcoming

For more information, please contact:

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

Please mark your calendars for Session III:

March 3rd

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE
COFFEE HOUR SESSION I

Monday, March 2nd (Comp Lit Seminar Classroom, Callaway N106) from 7:00-9:00pm

Announcement and details will be forthcoming

For more information, contact:

Jacqueline Abrams (jacqueline.abrams@emory.edu), or Benjamin Hilb (bhilb@emory.edu)

 

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