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Events of interest to Comparative Literature faculty and students

 

Fall 2009

Thursday, September 24, 2009
"Duty and Desire: Friendship from Homer to Kazantzakis"
Lecture
Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall
5:30pm

Gregory Jusdanis, Distinguished Humanities Professor at Ohio State University

Sponsored by the Modern Greek Studies Program
(view event flyer)

Wednesday, October 7, 2009
"The Art of Literary Memoir and Biography"
Lecture
Smith Buonanno Hall, Room 106
6:30pm

Writer and teacher Susan Cheever will speak. Part of the Great Brown Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2009-10.

Thursday, October 8, 2009
"Dreaming in Russian: Recalling the Soviet Era in Contemporary Cuban Arts"
Lecture
Watson Institute, McKinney Conference Room
5:30pm

Jacqueline Loss, Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Connecticut

Co-sponsored by Comparative Literature, the Cogut Center, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.


Tuesday, October 27, 2009
"Translation, Intertextuality, Interpretation"
Lecture
Smith Buonanno Hall, Room 106
5:00pm

Lawrence Venuti, Professor of English at Temple University

Sponsored by the Andrea Rosenthal Memorial Lectureship Fund and the Department of Comparative Literature
(view event flyer)

Thursday, November 12, 2009
"Osip Mandel’shtam’s Moving Pictures"
Lecture
Marston Hall, Room 209

Andrew S. Kahn, Reader in Russian
University of Oxford

Co-sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages
(view event flyer)