The Comparative Literature Department's Lecture Series, instituted in 2010, is intended as a forum for debating visions and methods of comparative literary study. Autumn and Winter lectures are usually delivered by comparative and affiliated faculty with the University of Chicago, with the Spring lecture typically featuring a scholar from outside of our university.
2023-2024
Friday, Nov 10 4:00pm "China in Loops" with Professor Shaoling Ma
2022-2023
Monday, May 15 7:00pm The Klezmographers “Toward Hopeful Skies: A Concert to Benefit Refugees from Ukraine”
Friday, May 5 11:30-1:00; 3:00-5:30 Workshop & Lecture with Ramsey McGlazer
Monday, May 1 5:00pm. Translation Studies Lecture in Honor of Farouk Mustafa given by Claire Paulian (Université Paris Cité), "De-Europeanizing Ovid's Metamorphoses."
Monday, April 24 5:00pm. Experimental Translation Workshop with Matvei Yankelvich (poet, translator, editor of World Poetry Books and founder of Ugly Duckling Presse).
Thursday, April 20 5:00pm Maria Stavrinaki on “Art After History. The "Museum without Walls" as Model, 1950s-1960s”
Thursday, April 20 5:00pm. Reading and Conversation with Cuban American writer Achy Obejas (novelist, poet, translator, self-translator).
Thursday April 13-14 A Closer Look: The Interpretive Gaze of Françoise Meltzer
Friday, March 31st 11:30-1:00; 3:00-5:30 Workshop and Lecture by Jeong Eun Annabel We (Northwestern University) on Ceremony Found, Commemoration Lost"
2021-2022
update coming soon!
2020-2021
In response to student and faculty interest and the institutional emphasis on diversity and inclusion programming, Comparative Literature has expanded its Departmental Lecture Series to include programming on issues related to gender, for period of eighteen months beginning in Winter 2018 through Spring 2019. Programming will be in the form of lectures, workshops, and training — all focused around gender relations, combatting sexism, gender identity, and multicultural intersectionality.
Programming in Gender and Inclusion
