Week of March 30, 2020
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Week of March 30th

Upcoming Comp Lit Events
CALAMEGS Lecture Series presents: "South-South Connections and the Question of 'World Literature'" by Anna Kazumi Stahl
April 1st, 4-6pm
Click here to join via Zoom

Anna Kazumi Stahl is a fiction writer based in Argentina. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation on transnational East-West identities in South American, U.S. and German literatures. Her research focuses on transnational narrative strategies in the work of immigrant or minority writers/artists, particularly those of Asian descent, in the Americas. As a fiction writer, she works in Spanish, a language she adopted in the early 1990s and in which she has published two book-length works and numerous short stories. Her work has appeared in translation in Italy, France, Germany, Japan, the USA, and Australia. Her novel Flores de un solo día (Seix Barral, 2003) was a finalist for the Rómulo Gallegos Prize. She is the director of NYU Buenos Aires, where she teaches Creative Writing. Stahl was selected to be the academic coordinator for J.M. Coetzee’s bi-annual “Literatures of the South” seminars and colloquia, held at the Universidad Nacional de San Martin. In addition, Stahl collaborates with the Malba museum in Buenos Aires and serves on the Board of the Fulbright Commission in Argentina.




Upcoming virtual event in the CALAMEGS Edges of Africa Lecture Series:
"Alluvial Dreams: Africa, China, and the Aesthetics of Speculation" by Duncan Yoon
Wednesday, April 8th, 4-6pm
Upcoming Community Events
Faculty Job Search Workshop and Panel
Friday, April 3rd, 12-4pm, Virtual

Learn about job search strategies for doctoral students and postdocs looking to pursue a variety of career paths. Sponsored by NYU Wasserman
Ferrante Fever: An Elena Ferrante Reading Group
First meeting: Sunday, April 5th, 9am
All meetings to be held over Zoom!

Ferrante Fever, named after the 2017 documentary by Giacomo Durzi, is a reading group dedicated to Elena Ferrante, the pseudonymous best-selling Italian author. Through weekly meetings, we shall be reading and discussing selections from one of Elena Ferrante's books in English, although those who have reading knowledge of the Italian language are more than welcome to read the original in Italian. Meetings will take place every Sunday morning from 9am (EST) onwards and discussions will run for 1-2 hours. This group is for anyone and everyone: those who have Ferrante Fever, those who are simply curious to read Ferrante or Italian literature, or those who simply want to meet new people or explore Italy through its contemporary literature. We shall also be hosting watch-parties and discussions on cinematic and television adaptations of Elena Ferrante's works.

Owing to the current COVID-19 pandemic, our meetings shall be taking place online over Zoom. Once it is safe to meet in small groups again, these meetings shall be taking place in New York City parks, bookstores, cafes and/or restaurants. Any bookstore, venue or cafe that would like to partner is encouraged to get in touch!

Meeting Description: The first meeting of Ferrante Fever will be a discussion on the first 50 pages of Elena Ferrante's 2008 book, 'La Figlia Oscura,' available in its English translation by Ann Goldstein as 'The Lost Daughter.' We will be discussing our thoughts and feelings about the first 50 pages of the book. Please make sure you purchase the book prior to the meeting. It is also available as an e-book online. For more information, visit the publisher's website: https://www.europaeditions.com/book/9781933372426/the-lost-daughter.
Webinars for Fulbright Applicants
Applications for the Fulbright US Student Program open on March 31st, and NYU applications will be due on August 24th. For any questions about grant development or grant writing assistance, please reach out to Abby Williams at abby.williams@nyu.edu in the GSAS Fellowships and Awards office. 
News & Announcements
Graduation Announcement

Congratulations to Comp Lit PhD student Brian Droitcour who successfully defended his dissertation this past week entitled "The Poetics of Andrei Monastyrski Within and Beyond the Book, 1972-1980." Brian's thesis was supervised by Professor Eliot Borenstein from NYU Russian & Slavic Studies. We wish you all the best in your future endeavors!
CAS Proud to Be First Faculty Connect Program now accepting applications!

Proud to Be First’s Faculty Connect program facilitates the development of meaningful academic, research and pre-professional connections between second-year, first-generation students and NYU faculty. This year, we invite faculty and students to consider, in particular, how research can shape their academic, co-curricular, and pre-professional journeys here at CAS and beyond.

It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in Faculty Connect for the 2020-2021 academic year. The time commitment is about three hours over the fall semester: a one-hour meeting in the faculty member’s office in the first half of the semester (funds for coffee and pastries provided by Proud to Be First), and lunch at NYU’s Torch Club in the second half of the semester (also courtesy of Proud to Be First). We are going into the third great year of this vibrant program and hope you are interested in joining us for 2020-2021!

Please complete this form by Sunday, August 16, 2020 if you would like to participate in Faculty Connect for 2020-2021.

Welcoming Mariano López Seano as Visiting Professor for AY 2020/21
Mariano will offer a mix of undergraduate and graduate courses contributing to our Latin American curriculum and will work closely with all our graduate students on a number of events and projects related to contemporary Latin American art, film, queer studies and critical theory. 
To learn more, visit this page:
https://as.nyu.edu/complit/about/news/news-for-2019-2020/we-welcome-mariano-lopez-seoane-as-visting-professor-for-the-upc.html
Fall 2020 Graduate Course Announcement

HIST-GA 2540 Concepts of Time and Power
Mondays 2:00-4:45pm, King Juan Carlos Center Room 701

Course Description: Over the past decade, time has emerged anew as a major concept across the humanities and social sciences, and historians have raised anew the question of its relation to history. New perspectives on conceptions and practices of time have acquired a powerful yet very uneven, often confusing place in academic discussion. The purpose of this course is to carefully reconsider the theorization of temporality in political, revolutionary, colonial, and cultural history; in twentieth-century philosophy and human sciences; in some natural sciences (and their history), with an eye to doing contemporary historical work and to studying the conflicts between different temporalities. Key issues will concern the co-institution of time and power; the constant conflict of temporal regimes—for which we will aim to move beyond the Koselleck paradigm; modernization, revolution, and colonization & decolonization in the way they involve temporality; periodization; internationalization(s); and the instability of the classic past/present/future constructions the construction of the past, including through historicist and citational practices; technological and industrial effects; as well as the postulation and planning out of various futures (incl. redemptive political theologies).
Comp Lit COVID-19 Dashboard

We have created an online resource page for all current students and faculty on our department website with helpful tips and information for remote learning. We recommend that you bookmark this page so you can continue to refer back to it as updates are made: https://as.nyu.edu/complit/coronavirus-updates-and-resources.html




 
Brio. Call for Submissions
Deadline: March 31st
Job and Fellowship Listings
NYU WE Trust Fellowship in Multidisciplinary Classics
Deadline: April 24, 2020
To submit an event or announcement, please email tara.hardy@nyu.edu. We welcome notice of conference papers as well as recent publications or talks by NYU faculty or students in Comp Lit or elsewhere that you would like highlighted. Please also submit any recent awards or recognitions that you would like shared with the department!

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