Friday, 5/13
3-5 p.m.
19 University Place, room 222
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Intellectual Divisions of Labor
Please join us for the May installment of the NYU Comparative Literature Colloquium Series.
Pu Wang
“Aofuhebian in 1928: Transliteration and Theoretical Warfare”
&
Bilal Hashmi
“Third-World Literature: Reflections on a Debate”
Reception to follow.
Pu Wang is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at NYU. His dissertation project focuses on the writer-politician-scholar Guo Moruo and the Chinese Revolution. A participant in the “Benjamin Translation Group,” he is co-translating into Chinese Convolute J (Baudelaire) of Walter Benjamin’s Das Passagen-Werk.
Bilal Hashmi is a doctoral candidate in the Department of
Comparative Literature at NYU. His dissertation project
examines the aesthetic and political alliances forged among
French, Indian and Russian writers during the interwar
period. He is the translator of Sajjad Zaheer’s 1938 Urdu
novella, A Night in London, which will appear from
HarperCollins India this summer. He currently serves as
Managing Editor of the Duke University Press journal,
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle
East.
