10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of German
Friday, April 21st | University Hall 201 10 AM - 12 PM Peter Fenves (Northwestern): “An Epistemo- Promotive Program” Respondent: Hedy Cohen (Kingston University) 2...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Comparative Literary Studies Senior Colloquium 12:00-1:30pm Wednesday, December 4, 2024 Hagstrum Room, University Hall 201 Presentations by Diana Deng | Clary...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Comp Lit & Kaplan Institute Translation: Theory and Practice Series presents Denise Kripper, Bilingual Translator (Spanish-English), Translation Scholar and Associate Professor at Lake...
All day, sponsored by Philosophy Undergraduate Events
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
A Tale of Two Endymions: Affective Imperialism in the Romances of Keats and Galib Alongside the physical encounters between the British...
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Have you ever wanted to learn the language of masterpieces like The Master and Margarita, or The Day Lasts More...
10:00 AM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
SEX BEYOND THE LAW October 12, 2023 Kaplan Institute seminar room, Kresge 2351 Brought to you by the Program of Comparative Literary Studies Organized...
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Middle East and North African Studies, Comparative Literary Studies, and African American Studies present R.A. JUDY, University of Pittsburgh, author of...
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Let's Hear About It! Podcasts, Literary Studies, and the Public Humanities Two Lectures: Literature, Identity and Deep Podcasting in a Divided Age ULRICH...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Let's Hear About It! Podcasts, Literary Studies, and the Public Humanities Graduate Podcasters Workshop Open to all! **Please rsvp to mauriciooportus2023@u.northwestern.edu ** Invited Graduate...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora: On Queer Theory as Literary Theory A lecture by LEE EDELMAN,...
2:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Asian American Studies Program
Join us for a film screening and panels on Deann Borshay Liem’s “Crossings” (2021), which documents the peace activism of...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Haunting Friendships: Notes on the Sovereignty of the Image in Cold War Modernism A lecture by Maziyar Faridi, Clemson University
10:00 AM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Comparative Literary Studies presents Translation Practices Across Institutional Borders: From the Scholar to the Public An all day symposium featuring Mukhtar H. Ali...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Please join the Comparative Literary Studies Program as we celebrate three of our faculty and their recent publications! Ryan Dohoney, Morton...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Presentations by Tomer Cherki Inbo Gottlieb-Fenves Rosalie Liu Madison McClellan Samuel Rosner
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
What We’re Working on NOW Please join us for the first of a new series of informal, lunchtime (brown bag) talks...
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Whither Comparative Literature? Please join the Comparative Literary Studies Program for a conversation on the futures of comparative literature. Reception to...
5:15 PM - 6:45 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
SimoneWhite.com: Simone White is the author of or, on being the other woman (Duke University Press, 2022), Dear Angel of Death...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Arendt after Ghosh: “The Climate Crisis is also a Crisis of Culture”
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
A discussion about Robinson’s article, “Climate Justice,” from The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, as well as a conversation about...
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Zoom link: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/97806435968
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Comp. Lit. Spring Party! Fri. 6/3 | 4pm | Kresge 2305 (across from Kresge Cafe)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Cosmopolitanism and Inhospitality: Voluntarism and Melancholia in the Art and Literature of Migration Crises A lecture by Professor Mariano Siskind (Harvard) Description: This...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
workshop: Kisukidi’s work-in-progress, sponsored by Critical Theory Wed. 5/25 | 3:30pm | Kresge 2351 (Kaplan Institute seminar room) lecture: Black Hopes -...
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Critical Theory
workshop: DREAMT TERRITORIES and DIASPORIC POLITICS: Art, Futurity, and Philosophy, sponsored by Critical Theory Wed. 5/25 | 3:30pm | Kresge 2351...
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Colloquium: The Critique of Violence from the 1920s to the 2020s Mon. 5/23 | Time TBA | Kresge 2415
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Department of German
A Colloquium at Northwestern University in response to the publication of the new translation and critical edition of Walter Benjamin’s...
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Everything was Designed to Make Us Sound: Hannah Arendt and Aesthetic Judgement concert: a.pe.ri.od.ic with music by Yoko Ono, Antoine Beuger,...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Everything was Designed to Make Us Sound: Hannah Arendt and Aesthetic Judgement concert: a.pe.ri.od.ic with music by Yoko Ono, Antoine Beuger,...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Everything was Designed to Make Us Sound: Hannah Arendt and Aesthetic Judgement concert: a.pe.ri.od.ic with music by Yoko Ono, Antoine Beuger,...
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Everything was Designed to Make Us Sound: Hannah Arendt and Aesthetic Judgement concert: a.pe.ri.od.ic with music by Yoko Ono, Antoine Beuger,...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by WCCIAS
Register for the event: https://bit.ly/poetic-confusion Please join us for the Global Lunchbox, a weekly forum convened by the Weinberg College Center for...
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Colloquium: Masculinity, Politics, and Postwar Germanophone Literatures and Visual Culture Featuring Sophie Salvo (University of Chicago) panel: Xan Holt, Thomas Love,...
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Colloquium: Masculinity, Politics, and Postwar Germanophone Literatures and Visual Culture Featuring Sophie Salvo (University of Chicago) panel: Xan Holt, Thomas Love,...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Colloquium: Masculinity, Politics, and Postwar Germanophone Literatures and Visual Culture Featuring Sophie Salvo (University of Chicago) panel: Xan Holt, Thomas Love,...
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Domietta Torlasco Film Screening Fri. 4/29 | 7pm | Block Museum
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
The Aesthetics of Counter-Communities Thurs. 4/28 | 4pm | Hagstrum Room (University Hall 208)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
workshop: The Abuse of Property: From Occupy to Abolition Wed. 4/27 | 4pm | Kresge 2351 (Kaplan Institute seminar room) lecture: The...
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Wed. 4/20 | 5pm | Kresge 5531 (CLS seminar room)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
workshop: Surplus Data Fri. 4/8 | 12pm | Kresge 5531 (CLS seminar room)
10:30 AM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Post45 Grad Symposium: featuring Michelle Huang (Northwestern) Fri.-Sat. 4/1-2 | 10:30am-1:30pm | Zoom Fri.-Sat. 4/8-9 | 10:30am-1:30pm | Zoom
10:30 AM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Post45 Grad Symposium: featuring Michelle Huang (Northwestern) Fri.-Sat. 4/1-2 | 10:30am-1:30pm | Zoom Fri.-Sat. 4/8-9 | 10:30am-1:30pm | Zoom
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
lectures: Kirkwood: Cryptohumanism: Hermeneutics, Value, and the Hash Rate Weatherby: The Metaphysics of Data Capital Thurs. 4/7 | 5:30pm | Kresge 1515
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Islanding: Ocean Media and the Aesthetics of Desertedness in the South China Sea
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Erin Y. Huang (Princeton University) “Humans can live on an island only by forgetting what an island represents,” writes Gilles Deleuze in...
10:30 AM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Post45 Grad Symposium: featuring Michelle Huang (Northwestern) Fri.-Sat. 4/1-2 | 10:30am-1:30pm | Zoom Fri.-Sat. 4/8-9 | 10:30am-1:30pm | Zoom
10:30 AM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Post45 Grad Symposium: featuring Michelle Huang (Northwestern) Fri.-Sat. 4/1-2 | 10:30am-1:30pm | Zoom Fri.-Sat. 4/8-9 | 10:30am-1:30pm | Zoom
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Meeting Up in the Spatial Turn: The Historical Geographies of Antonio Gramsci and a Few Others Stefan Kipfer, York University in...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Please join us on Wednesday, February 2nd at 12:30pm, on Zoom for a book launch featuring ISABELLE ALFANDARY and her...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
HEREMAKANO (Waiting for Happiness) (2002) Directed by the great Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako Before immigrating to the West, Abdallah (Mohamed Mahmoud Ould...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Comparative Literary Studies program graduate students, Carly Bortman and Sihan Wang, will each present aspects of their recent research work. Carly...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Philosophy Colloquium Series
The NU Philosophy Colloquium Series will host University of Verona's Eva Von Redecker and respondent Jay Bernstein of the New...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Interested in learning about the Comparative Literary Studies (CLS) Major or World Literature Minor? Join CLS Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Join us for third year presentations by Comparative Literary Studies PhD Program graduate students Mauricio Oportus Preller and Xinyi Wei. Mauricio...
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Transmedial Ekphrasis: César Aira’s “Cecil Taylor” Erin Graff Zivin, University of Southern California Cecil Taylor, whose experimental atonal jazz piano repelled some...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by WCCIAS
Registration is required for this event: http://bit.ly/stranger-fictions Please join the Weinberg College Center for International & Area Studies and the Middle East...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Humanity Matters: Intersections of Dalit and Black Lives A Conversation with Suraj Yengde Moderated by Laura Brueck and Ivy Wilson Suraj Yengde is...
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Sabu Kohso in conversation with Thomas Lamarre and Franco “Bifo” Berardi Written in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster,...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Omoyemi Ajisebutu: “Being and Temporality: (Im)Mobility and Fragmentation in Africana Diasporic Fiction/Art” Sorrel Dunn: "Nature of Color: the Environments of Adalbert...
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Environmental Humanities Workshop, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and the Program in Comparative Literary studies present: Professor Andrew F. Jones...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
In response to recent events both at NU and beyond, this two-part event series aims to provide a forum for...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
In response to recent events both at NU and beyond, this two-part event series aims to provide a forum for...
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by 2019-2021 Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED)
The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora welcomes Tiffany King, Associate Professor in African American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality...
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Join Comp Lit Director of Graduate Studies, Harris Feinsod, for a workshop and Q&A on grant and fellowship applications. From...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Elizabeth Rodini will present Itinerant Objects: Early Modern Mobility and the Spaces In Between on Tuesday, December 8th at 4...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
On Thursday, December 3rd at 4 PM CT, Elizabeth Rodini will present There and Back Again: Tracking Gentile Bellini’s Portrait...
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Join the Comparative Literary Studies Seniors as they share their senior seminar research projects! Tara Shirvaikar: “Lifting the Veil: the Subversion...
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
In this lecture, Professor Laura Pérez (UC Berkeley) will talk about her recent book Eros Ideologies, which theorizes decolonial aesthetics and...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Join us for a Comparative Literary Studies Program workshop: Climate Lyricism Min Hyoung Song (Professor, English Department, Boston College) Do you get overwhelmed...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
"What's New in World Literature" October 16 4pm - 5:30pm CST Zoom (virtual) *to receive a Zoom link to the event, please e-mail Sarah...
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Critical Theory
Join us for the 2020-21 Critical Theory Cluster Informational Meeting September 28th, 3pm – 4pm CST via Zoom. The purpose of the...
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Interested in learning more about the Comparative Literary Studies major or World Literature Minor? Join us on September 2, 10am...
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Consider registering for this Summer 2020 course! COMP_LIT 205 | Gender and Genius: Women’s Writing in the Global Nineteenth Century MW 2pm...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Comparative Literary Studies Graduating Seniors & Honors Students Celebration! Thursday, June 18th 4pm – 5pm CST Via Zoom Join us as we celebrate the...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
CLS Program Faculty & Graduate Student End of Year Celebration! Thursday, June 11th 4pm – 5pm CST Via Zoom Bring your favorite drink and...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Please join us for a workshop by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts at the Block Museum: Imperfect Cinema and...
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
2019-2020 Provincializing Romanticism Workshop Series Presents: "The World of Haitian Romanticism" Please join us for a dialogue with Marlene Daut May 15 at...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
2019-2020 Provincializing Romanticism Workshop Series Presents: "Decentering Romanticism” Please join us for a dialogue with Omar Miranda & Bakary Diaby May 1st at...
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Please join us for a roundtable on African, Chinese, Iranian, and Ottoman contexts for Romanticism Commentators: Niloofar Sarlati (Univ of Michigan) Menglu Gao...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Please join us for a lunch time colloquium with Rebecca Johnson (Crown Junior Chair in Middle East Studies; Assistant Professor,...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Graduate workshop with John Ladd, Postdoctoral Scholar in the Kaplan Humanities Center. “Digital Humanities and the Job Market(s)” When: Friday, February 28th Time:...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by 2019-2021 Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED)
Join us for the Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora's second event of the year, and an evening of discussion exploring...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
PROVINCIALIZING ROMANTICISM: A Yearlong Series at Northwestern "Reanimation, Metamorphosis, Kinship: New Archives of Romanticism" A roundtable on Black and Indigenous literatures of...
