Comparative Literature

A Celebration in honor of Marisa Galvez's outstanding achievement will be held:

Thursday, February 21st, 2008
12:00pm - 1:30pm
German Studies Library (260-252)

Galvez's dissertation is entitled: "Medium as genre: a historical phenomenology of the medieval songbook in the Occitan, German, and Castilian traditions"

Hannes Stein was born in 1965 in Munich, grew up in Salzburg, Austria and studies English literature in Hamburg. He worked as a journalist for "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" and "Der Spiegel", was on the editorial board of "Die Welt" and then moved to New York City while continuing to write primarily for "Die Welt".

Juergen Habermas will speak on:

"'And to Define America, Her Athletic Democracy...' Richard Rorty, Philosopher and Language-Shaper"

A Memorial Lecture

 

Friday, November 2nd at 5:00pm

 

Cubberley Auditorium

485 Lasuen Mall

Stanford University

Filmmaker Werner Herzog visits Stanford. Sponsored by the Film Studies program. Pre-Screening Reception with the Director for the Departments of Comparative Literature and German Studies. Student Volunteers needed! Please RSVP by Wed Feb 20th.

Student volunteers are encouraged to help in setting up the reception area (please include in your RSVP if you would like to help out).

Email lorilynn@stanford.edu by Wed, Feb 20th to RSVP

 

RECEPTION INFORMATION:

CALL FOR PAPERS

Room 200-307

Interested parties, please RSVP to jenkins2@stanford.edu

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism was published exactly one hundred years ago on the front page of the Parisian daily Le Figaro. It famously celebrated "the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.. feverish sleeplessness, the perilous leap, the slap and the punch" and proclaimed the beauty of mechanical speed, setting the tone for many of the avant-garde movements that would follow.

This talk will address the history of the study of Germany and German literature in China. German academic life has developed considerable ties to China, while the greatest number of applicants to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation come from China. Most German universities and research centers have ties to China.

Talk will be given in German language.

Sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature and German Studies
Questions? email comparativelit@stanford.edu

We live in an age of migration and during the 20th century literary history saw an increase in the number of authors having migrant backgrounds. In this lecture we will discuss the distinctiveness of literature written by migrants proposing, however, that we should pay more concern to the works’ thematic and formal design than to authorial background. This entails a conceptual shift from migrant literature to migration literature, and it ultimately opens up the possibility that non-migrants living in an age of migration can produce migration literature.