Past Events

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book cover of The Limit of the Useful

The Limit of the Useful by Georges Bataille edited and translated by Cory Austin Knudson and Tomas Elliott

Lucy Swanson on Zombies

Lucy Swanson, University of Arizona, on "Aftershocks: How Zombie Narratives Reassemble Haitian Stories"

Simon Reader

Simon Reader (CUNY): Idols of the Fragment: Schlegel and Barthes

Guillermina De Ferrari

Guillermina De Ferrari on Care is the New Revolution

Bernt Renner

Bernd Renner, CUNY, on Moderately criticize the vices of your time: The Formation of Modern Satire from Brant to Urquhart

Jed Esty book launch

Book Launch for Jed Esty, Jonah Siegel, Nancy Yousef

Discussion of Ada Kuskowski, Vernacular Law: Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France (Cambridge University Press, 2022), with Roger Chartier

Alyssa Granacki

Alyssa Granacki,candidate for the medievalist position in Italian Studies (FIGS) on Feb. 15

Devin Fore

DEVIN FORE, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, “The Noomechanics of Theater: Brecht and Tret’iakovand Slavic Languages and Literatures,

Timmy Straw and poets

New Poetry and The Paris Review with Timmy Straw, Victoria Chang, C.S. Griscombe, and Srikanth Reddy