Past Events

Lecture by Katharina Gruzei - "Media as projection space for narrative fantasies and internal states"

Date:
28 May 2009 - 3:15am
Media as projection space
for narrative fantasies and internal states.

 

Meyer Library Building
Room 147

If media stimulates our internal states as narrative structure of imagination and interpretation, which process is then decisive between the boundaries of collective memory and personal fantasies?

Lecture by Antonis Balasopoulos-"Political Animals: Critical Reflections on Sovereignty and Bare Life in Giorgio Agamben’s Work"

Date:
14 May 2009 - 5:00am
“Political Animals:
Critical Reflections on Sovereignty and Bare Life in Giorgio Agamben’s Work”

Antonis Balasopoulos
Thursday May 14th, 5:15pm
Building 260, Room 216

AVATARS: 3rd Annual Comparative Literature Graduate Conference

Date:
10 Apr 2009 - 5:00pm
11 Apr 2009 - 9:30am

CALL FOR PAPERS

AVATARS: 3rd Annual Comparative Literature Graduate Conference

Date:
10 Apr 2009 - 5:00pm
11 Apr 2009 - 9:30am

CALL FOR PAPERS

Book Talk by Paola Govoni - "The Making of Italo Calvino: Eva Mameli-Calvino and her Laboratory Garden"

Date:
3 Mar 2009 - 12:00pm

Room 200-307

Interested parties, please RSVP to jenkins2@stanford.edu

Two Concerts by Renowned Composer-Performer Daniele Lombardi on Feb. 20 and Feb. 21

Date:
20 Feb 2009 - 7:30pm
21 Feb 2009 - 7:30pm
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. The event is

Two Concerts by Renowned Composer-Performer Daniele Lombardi on Feb. 20 and Feb. 21

Date:
20 Feb 2009 - 7:30pm
21 Feb 2009 - 7:30pm
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. The event is

Lecture by Xiaohu Feng - "Germanistik in China"

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Date:
12 Feb 2009 - 5:15pm

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

Lecture by Michael Eskin - "Wake-Up Call: Grünbein, Descartes, Pushkin"

Date:
29 Oct 2008 - 4:30pm
Michael Eskin of Columbia University will speak about some of his research interests. The lecture, titled "Wake-Up Call: Grünbein, Descartes, Pushkin," explores the significance of literature for life through the prism of Durs Grünbein's dialogue with René Descartes and Aleksandr S. Pushkin.

The talk is co-sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literatures, CREEES, Comparative Literature, German Studies, the DLCL Philosophy Reading group, and the Forum on Contemporary Europe.
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