COMPARATORIUM

Friday, September 16

comparatorium — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:25:19 +0000

Friday, September 16
3-5 p.m.
Deutsches Haus (42 Washington Mews)

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The Poetics of Futurity: On Translating Nostradamus

A Talk by

Professor Richard Sieburth

Departments of Comparative Literature and French

Please join us for the opening event of this year’s
Comparative Literature Colloquium series. We are delighted to present Professor Richard Sieburth, introducing
his new translation of the Prophecies of Nostradamus.

Light reception to follow.

Friday, May 13

comparatorium — Fri, 06 May 2011 18:00:50 +0000

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.

Tomorrow!

comparatorium — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:31:58 +0000

A brief reading from Prof. Nicholl’s George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism (2009)

from Nicholls’s George Oppen & the Fate of Modernism

Friday, April 22

comparatorium — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:19:34 +0000

Friday, 4/22

3-5 p.m.

19 University Place, room 222

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“Staging Archives”

Please join us for the April installment of the NYU Comparative Literature Colloquium Series.

Professor Cristina Vatulescu,

Departments of Comparative Literature, Russian & Slavic Studies

“East European Secret Police Archives: Reading Dilemmas”

Professor Peter Nicholls,

Department of English

“Living with the George Oppen Archive”

Reception to follow.

Cristina Vatulescu received her Ph.D in Comparative Literature from Harvard in 2005 and came to NYU after a year as a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Her first book, Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film and The Secret Police, a study of the relationships between cultural and policing practices in twentieth century Eastern Europe, was recently published by Stanford University Press. Taking advantage of the partial opening of the secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Police Aesthetics focuses on their most infamous holdings-the personal files-as well as on the agency’s less known involvement with cinema. Two articles stemming from this project, “Arresting Biographies: The Secret Police File in The Soviet Union and Romania,” and “Politics of Estrangement: Tracking Shklovsky’s Device in Literary and Policing Practices” have been published in Comparative Literature and Poetics Today. Vatulescu’s current project is a crosscultural exploration of the interplay of documents and fictions in twentieth century literature, cinema, as well as in legal texts and practices.

Peter Nicholls has published widely on twentieth-century writing, with recent works including Modernisms: A Literary Guide (2nd ed. 2008) and George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism (2009). He is especially interested in connections between American and European poetry, and in the political and economic dimensions of literary texts. Nicholls arrived at NYU in 2009 after many years at the University of Sussex, where he was Professor of English and American Literature and editor of the journal Textual Practice.

Friday, December 10

comparatorium — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:43:55 +0000

Friday, December 10

1-3 pm

13-19 University Place, Rm 222

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Time-Based Art

A Presentation by

Professor Boris Groys

Department of Russian and Slavic Studies, NYU

Please join us for the December installment of the Comparative Literature Colloquium. Note the earlier time, shifted due to the “Music, Language, Thought” event taking place later that afternoon.

Friday, November 19

comparatorium — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:32:13 +0000

Friday, November 19

3-5 pm

Silver, Rm 220

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Somatic Solidarities

Micaela Kramer: “Good Blood: Drauzio Varella’s Ethics of Contamination and the Rhetorics of Purity in the Carandiru Prison”

Patrick W. Gallagher: “The City with a Thousand Tendrils: Urban Renewal and Jane Jacobs’s Myth of the Organic Citizen”

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Please join us for the November installment of the Comparative Literature Colloquium series on Friday, 11/19, from 3-5 p.m. in Silver 220

This month’s event will feature two PhD candidates from our department.