Friday, September 18
“On Political Philosophy and Literature”
Prof. Sibylle Fischer
“The Abstract Nakedness of Being Human”
Prof. Jacques Lezra
“The Public Option”
Friday, October 16
Student Research: Ellen Xiang He; Lorraine Wong, respondent
Friday, November 13
“The Art World”
Friday, December 11
Prof. Mikhail Iampolski
Friday, January 22
“Directions in Comparative Literature: Literary Technics and Radical Philosophy”
Emily Apter, “The Right to Translation: Deconstructive Pedagogy in Comparative Literature 1979/2009″
John Hamilton, “CURA-CAUTIO-CAUSA: Linguistic Field Theory and Comparative Philology”
Friday, February 19
Prof. Xudong Zhang
Friday, April 16
“Les Idiots de la Famille”
Introduced by: Sarah Thomas (Department of Spanish and Portuguese):
“The Academic Child”
Alexandra Lukes (Department of French):
“Mallarmé’s Franglais: English Words and Their Families”
Daniel Lukes (Department of Comparative Literature):
“The Eugenics of Attraction: Developments in Gender Sci-Fi”
Friday, May 7
“Who’s Afraid of the Chinese Language?”
Lorraine Wong
(New York University)
“Shattering Silence: Latinized New Writing and Linguistic Modernity”
Yurou Zhong
(Columbia University)
“The Invention of Basic Chinese: Rethinking the Romanization Movement in Modern China”
Respondent:
Richard Jean So
(Williams College/University of Chicago)
