THURSDAY, MARCH
25
7:30 p.m.
State Historical Society
Auditorium
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University): “Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies”
Morning session: 10 a.m. - 12:30
Stephanie Jed (U California San Diego): “Frames of Reference: Connecting the Dangerously Disconnected” 10 - 11
BREAK 11 - 11:15
Rethinking the Comparative: the persistence of the past? 11:15 - 12:30
Mohammed Bamyeh
(Gallatin School/NYU): “Pessoptimistic Notes on Defeated Cultures”
George Wright (UW
Superior): “Hybridizing Roman Law”
LUNCH 12:30 - 2:30
Afternoon session 2:30 - 5 p.m.
Peggy Kamuf (USC): “Literature without Comparison” 2:30 - 3:30
Break
3:30 - 3:45
3:45 - 5 p.m.
Toma Longinovic (UW
Madison): “The Limits of Humanism”
Narayana Rao (UW Madison):
"Sanskrit in Trafalgar Square and English in Vijayawada: Comparative Literacy
as Satire"
Morning session: 10 A.M. - 12:30
Gilberto Perez (Sarah Lawrence College): "Towards a Rhetoric of Film" 10 - 11
BREAK
11 - 11:15
11:15 - 12:30
Randall Halle (U.
of Rochester): “The Transnational Aesthetic and the Emergence of
European Film”
Tacey Rosolowski (Independent
scholar and writer): “Consciously Adorned: Interrogations of the Body in
Contemporary Art Jewelry"
LUNCH
12:30 - 2:30
Afternoon session
2:30 - 5 p.m.
Translation, Memoir,
History: Comparative stories and what can’t be ‘carried across’
A reading of the work
of Etel Adnan (independent scholar, writer, and artist) in her absence,
including
"Four Stories for
the Symposium"
2:30 - 3:30
Break
3:30 - 3:45
3:45 - 5
Elizabeth Zanichkowsky
(UW Waukesha): “title to be announced”
Nicole Huang (UW Madison):
“Ethnographies of Wartime: Women's Autobiographical Fiction in 1940s Shanghai”
SUNDAY, MARCH 28
10:30 - 1
313 PYLE CENTER
Bagels, cream cheese,
coffee and discussion with symposium participants and speakers.
Organized and moderated
by Comparative Literature and Borders Studies Research Circle students.
We are
grateful to the following for their cosponsorship:
English,
French & Italian, German, Spanish & Portuguese, European Studies,
South Asian Studies, Women’s Studies and the Havens Center, the Institute
for Research in the Humanities, and the International Institute.
Special
thanks to Elyse Crystall, Laura Dill, Loretta Freiling, Trina Messer, and
Kristin Pitt.
For more information, please contact:
The Department
of Comparative Literature
934
Van Hise Hall 1220 Linden Dr.
University
of Wisconsin, Madison
Madison
WI 53706
608-262-3059
(departmental office)
608-262-9723
(fax)
tmesser@lss.wisc.edu
or Mary
N. Layoun
608-262-9767
layoun@lss.wisc.edu
OR
mnlayoun@facstaff.wisc.edu
This page last updated March 22, 1999.