"International Solidarity in the Era of Black Lives Matter and Justice for Palestine" CLICK HERE to view a recording of this lecture CLICK HERE to download the flyer for this lecture This lecture was held virtually via Zoom Webinar at 12:00 PM PST on Thursday, April 14, 2022. For more information about...
Fethiye Çetin with her grandmother CLICK HERE TO VIEW LECTURE RECORDING About the Lecture 20 years ago, a loose-knit collective of Turkish journalists, lawyers, writers, publishers, and social justice advocates banded together to tell the truth about the Armenian genocide to the Turkish people, who had by then been subjected to denialist lies for...
Intangible and Recalcitrant Objects: Balzac’s Pedestrian Observations and the Predicament of the Human Sciences In 1833, Honoré de Balzac published a short essay entitled La théorie de démarche. In this highly original text, he defines for the first time his historical-anthropological approach to the society of his epoch that would lead to the vast...
On Thursday, February 8 from 10:00-11:30 am in 348 Kaplan, the Department of Comparative Literature will host Prof. Russ Castronovo (Wisconsin-Madison) for a discussion of his new book American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability (Princeton UP, 2023). Two chapters from the book, which will serve as the basis of the discussion, are available here.
Non-Academic Tracks for Ph.D Students Marc Brudzinski designs system-level solutions to real problems. He is constantly amazed by how a deep understanding of real people can inspire groups to re-frame complex problems. Recent collaborators include government ministries, international agencies, universities, and companies in the arts and telecommunications sectors. He is most excited about awakening people’s...
Book Talk Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World ABOUT THE BOOK How do the literatures and cultures of oppressed societies survive and flourish in spite of the overdetermining conditions of precarity and injustice of which they are a product and against which they protest? Might the symptom of oppression become simultaneously...
Etienne Anheim (History, EHESS, Paris) The ideal of “death for the fatherland” (Pro patria mori) may seem to be an invariable reality of the human society, from Sparta and Athens to today’s wars. In fact, it is a political imaginary whose periodization can be traced. Ernst Kantorowicz, in a famous article published in 1951, proposed...
Shannon Speed (Director of American Indian Studies Center; Anthropology/Gender Studies/American Indian Studies, UCLA) This lecture is part of the UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory (ECT) and the ECT Spring 2024 seminar on “Ternary Positionality: Relationality, Decoloniality, and Interpretation”, taught by Zrinka Stahuljak (Comparative Literature/ELTS). The Spring 2024 ECT Seminar is generously sponsored by the Deans of...
