Race, Psychoanalysis, and Affect Reading Group
Please note that this group will now be meeting biweekly, so the session scheduled for Wednesday, February 26th has been cancelled. The next meeting date will be Wednesday, March 4th at 7:30pm in 19 University Place, room 337.
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Comparatorium: Graduate Student Works in Progress
Thursday, February 27th
11am-12:15pm
19 University Place, Great Room
Comp Lit PhD students will be presenting on their works in progress as part of our MacCracken Visiting Day for prospective doctoral students. All Comparatorium events are open to the public!
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Christopher Bush is Associate Professor of French at Northwestern University, where he co-directs the Global Avant-garde and Modernist Studies graduate cluster and co-edits Modernism/modernity. His first book, Ideographic Modernism: China, Writing, Media, was published by Oxford University Press in 2010 and he is currently completing The Floating World: Modernism’s Japan (for Columbia University Press) and working on several projects on the early twentieth-century avant-gardes.
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Poetics & Theory Reading Group
Next meeting: Friday, Feb. 28th, 6:30-8pm
19 University Place, Room 222
The selections are as follows:
1. Édouard Glissant, The Poetics of Relation [1990]. Trans. Betsy Wing.
-Section V: "Poetics" (p.185-209).
2. Stefano Harney & Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study [2013]
-Chapter 1 (p. 17-20) & Chapter 3 (p. 47-57).
All are welcome! Join us for what will no doubt be a generative discussion.
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Comp Lit/German Majors + Minors Open House
Friday, March 6th, 12-2pm
19 University Place, 3rd floor
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Poetics & Theory presents: Fatima Naqvi
Thursday, March 12th, 6:30pm (please note time correction)
19 University Place, 1st Floor, Great Room
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Ficciones rebeldes: A conversation with Mexican writer Álvaro Enrigue
Wednesday, February 26th, 7pm
KJCC Center, 53 Washington Square South
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Necropolitical Appropriations of Blackness in Contemporary Spain
A Lecture by Jeffrey K. Coleman
Wednesday, February 26th, 12:30-2pm
Great Room, 19 University Place
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Dante's Prayerful Pilgrimage: Typologies of Prayer in the Comedy (Brill, 2019)
Thursday, February 27th, 7pm
NYU Casa Italiana Library, 24 W 12th St
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NYU SCA Internship Program Speaker Series:
A Conversation with NYU Prison Education Program
Thursday, February 27th, 5pm
20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor Conference Room
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NYU SCA Open House
Thursday, February 27th, 12:30-2:30pm
20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor Flex Space
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Intellectual History Workshop: Next Meeting
Thursday, February 27th, 5pm
CEMS Seminar Room, #324, 53 Washington Square South
Please join us for a discussion of Edward Baring's Converts to the Real: Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy (Harvard, 2019).
Edward Baring is Associate Professor of History at Drew University, and the author previously of The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945-1968.
Joining him to discuss Converts to the Real will be Profs. Hent de Vries (NYU), Noreen Khawaja (Yale), and Thomas Dodman (Columbia).
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Dr. Lorgia García-Peña: "Translating Blackness: Vaivén and Detours of Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective"
Monday, March 9th, 12:30-2:00pm
NYU SCA Flexspace, 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
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Publication Announcement
Congratulations to Comp Lit undergraduate student Devanshi Khetarpal on the publication of your poem "Cruciverba #2" in the current issue of underblong journal run by Chen Chen and Sam Herschel Wein. Click here to read the current issue and find more information on how to submit to future issues!
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Comp Lit Summer 2020 Courses
Comp Lit will be offering four undergraduate courses this summer - see the flyers below and check Albert for course dates, times, and locations!
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Now accepting applications for the Comp Lit BA/MA program!
Students participating in this program get a head start on graduate coursework during their undergraduate studies. This allows them to finish a Master’s degree within one additional year of study at GSAS after earning the Bachelor’s degree. During their graduate school year, BA/MA students also receive a scholarship from GSAS covering 50% of tuition and registration fees.
Click on the flyer to learn more!
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Graduate Course Announcement
Department of French Literature, Thought, & Culture
FREN-GA 2790: The Nonhuman on Stage and on the Page
Professor Frédérique Aït-Touati
7-week course in second half of the spring 2020 semester
MW 3:30-6:00pm
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Doctoral Student Public Humanities Grant
NYU Center for the Humanities
Deadline: February 24, 2020
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Collegium Phaenomenologicum
Program Dates: July 13-31, 2020
Deadline: March 7, 2020
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Excentricités: Marge et centre en relation
Rutgers University
Conference Date: April 24, 2020
Deadline EXTENDED: March 9, 2020
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