In the decades after its invention in 1839, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East. Introduced as a crucial tool for Egyptologists and Orientalists who needed to document their...
The AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR LEVINASSIAN STUDIES* presents its third 2016-2017 lecture on “The Return of Ethics” Ethics and Otherness: Derrida, Levinas, and the Gaze of the Other in the Jewish American...
The Comparative Literature Graduate Student Association (CLGSA) has just announced its forthcoming schedule. Sketched below, these events can investigated further by contacting the CLGSA directly. We hope to see you...
You are invited to a workshop presentation of Prof. Dimitris Vardoulakis's new book: Stasis Before the State: Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy (Fordham University Press, 2017) This book critiques the...
Comparative Literature's Robert Farley will be speaking this Friday at the UCLA Queer Graduate Conference 2017. His paper is titled: "Translational Solidarity: Intersectionality, Women of Color Feminism, and Kwīr Knowledge Production...
Our Riverside Workshop is November 13, 2017 at the Riverside Art Museum. APPLY FOR A TRAVEL GRANT REGISTER FOR WORKSHOP WORKSHOP SCHEDULE 8:00–8:45 AM: Breakfast 8:45–9:00 AM: Welcome 9:00–10:30 AM:...
The first event in the 2017-2018 Sexuality & Geopolitics Seminar Series will feature Ari Heinrich, Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at UCSD. Their lecture, “Chinese Bodies as Biological...
Li Zhiwang, “Female Nude.” Abstract: This chapter argues that the works of controversial Chinese contemporary experimental artists known as the “Cadaver Group”—some of whom were at the center of a recent controversy surrounding...