Theorizing is the graduate-student-organized colloquium series in Comparative Literature. We invite scholars to give talks focused on exciting new areas of literary and critical theory, transnational literary studies and translation studies. Upcoming talks for 2024-2025:
November 15, 2024 Petrus Liu on Value-Form Queer Theory
https://cscc.sas.upenn.edu/events/2024/11/15/value-form-queer-theory
Please contact Jack Cao jackcao@sas.upenn.edu, Mary Campbell maryrcmp@sas.upenn.edu, or JoAnne Dubil jdubil@sas.upenn.edu for more information.
February 6, 2025 Itzel Corona Aguilar in conversation with David Kazanjian on Embodying the Sacred: Undocumented Migrant Poetics
Please see Events on website https://complit.sas.upenn.edu/events.
Please contact Mary Campbell maryrcmp@sas.upenn.edu, or JoAnne Dubil jdubil@sas.upenn.edu for more information.
February 26, 2025 Dr. José Vergara, an associate professor of Russian at the Bryn Mawr College and the author of All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature (Cornell University Press, 2021). The story of James Joyce’s presence in Russian literature has often been told as a tale of literary influence long disrupted by Soviet power, though ultimately incorporated into the tradition. But who is left out of such a history? Beyond serving as a modernist icon for predominantly male writers, how else has Joyce impacted Russophone letters? During his visit to U Penn, Dr. Vergara will explore how Joyce’s iconoclastic approaches to parenthood, gender, and exile have yielded equally significant responses from a mother who lost a son to the Gulag, a group of lesbian writers, and a Ukrainian refugee.
March 20, 2025 Leah Misemer, Assistant Director of the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Intersections of Humanities and STEM: The Graphic Medicine Lab
April 6, 2025 Lila Corwin Berman, is the Paul & Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History and the director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at New York University.
Lila Corwin Berman on Jewish History Without Jews: Where the Law May Lead
Please see Events on website https://complit.sas.upenn.edu/events.