Upcoming Events
Mark your calendars for these exciting events hosted by the Comparative Literature Program! This page is your resource for the 2012-2013 academic year. Be sure to check back often as this page will be updated frequently.
August 2012
| Wednesday, 29 |
Classes Begin |
September 2012
| Wednesday, 12 |
Lecture at Flom Auditorium, Walsh Library; 4:00 PM
Michel Delville (University of Liège): "Modernism and Melody" |
October 2012
| Monday, 1 |
Fall Film Series: Quo Vadis, South Lounge, 5:00-8:00 PM |
| Wednesday, 10 |
Comp Lit Information Session, FMH 416, 1:30-3:00 PM |
| Thursday, 11 |
Fall Film Series: Agora, South Lounge, 7:00-9:30 PM |
November 2012
| Wednesday, 7 |
RESCHEDULED-Lecture at Butler Commons, Duane Library, 3rd Floor, 5:15 PM
Donald Pease (Dartmouth University): "Barack Obama's Orphic Mysteries" |
| Monday, 12 |
Fall Film Series: Paradise Now, LL 816, 3:00-5:50 PM |
December 2012
| Monday, 3 |
Fall Film Series: Of Gods & Men, South Lounge, 5:00-7:30 PM |
| Tuesday, 4 |
Book Event at 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor, 6:00 PM
Toral J. Gajarawala (New York University) presents her new book Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste (Fordham University Press) with respondents Simon Gikandi (Princeton University) and Robert Young (New York University). |
JANUARY 2013
| Tuesday, 15 |
Spring Film Series: Lang's M, Flom Auditorium, 5:30 PM |
| Tuesday, 22 |
Spring Film Series: Renoir's Grand Illusion, Flom Auditorium, 5:30 PM |
| Friday, 25 |
Lecture at MLL Conference and Events Room, Faber Hall, 5th Floor, 11:30 AM
Giorgia Alù (University of Sydney): "Writing and Photography: Interactions in Italian Culture" |
| Monday, 28 |
Lecture at O'Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library, 4th Floor, 4:00 PM
Donald Pease (Dartmouth University): "Barack Obama's Orphic Mysteries" |
| Tuesday, 29 |
Spring Film Series: Carne's Children of Paradise, Flom Auditorium, 5:30 PM |
FEBRUARY 2013
| Tuesday, 5 |
Spring Film Series: De Sica's Bicycle Thieves, Flom Auditorium, 5:30 PM |
| Monday, 11 |
Spring Film Series: Cluzout's The Wages of Fear, Flom Auditorium, 5:30 PM |
| Thursday, 14 |
Spring Film Series: Wilder's Double Indemnity, Dealy 115, 5:30 PM |
| Tuesday, 19 |
Book Event at LC Campus, Lowenstein Building, 12th Floor Lounge, 7:30 PM
Niza Yanay (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) discusses her new book The Ideology of Hatred: The Psychic Power of Discourse (Fordham University Press) with Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley). |
| Monday, 25 |
Spring Film Series: Welles's Touch of Evil, Flom Auditorium, 5:30 PM |
| Tuesday, 28 |
Spring Film Series: Ophuls's Letter from an Unknown Woman, Flom Auditorium, 5:30 PM |
MARCH 2013
| Friday, 1 |
GEA Conference: "Practices of Memory," at Fordham Lincoln Center, with a keynote address by Dr. Marianne Hirsch, "Framing Children: School Pictures and their Afterlives" |
| Saturday, 2 |
GEA Conference: "Practices of Memory," at Fordham Lincoln Center, with a keynote address by Dr. Marianne Hirsch, "Framing Children: School Pictures and their Afterlives" |
| Tuesday, 5 |
Spring Film Series: Hitchcock's Rear Window, Flom Auditorium, 5:30 PM |
| Tuesday, 19 |
Spring Film Series: Mizoguchi's Ugetsu, Flom Auditorium, 5:30 PM |
| Monday, 25 |
Spring Film Series: Kurosawa's Ikiru, Dealy 115, 5:30 PM |
APRIL 2013
| Monday, 1 |
Spring Film Series: Ray's Pather Panchali, Dealy 115, 5:30 PM |
| Friday, 5 |
A Conversation with Marina Spada, "On Women, Poetry, Filmmaking, and the City," Faber 568, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM |
| Monday, 8 |
Spring Film Series: Bergman's Wild Strawberries, Dealy 115, 5:30 PM |
| Wednesday, 10 |
A reading & Q & A with Lynn Nottage, Lincoln Center, 12th Floor Lounge, 7:00 PM. |
| Thursday, 11 |
A reading & Q & A with Lynn Nottage, Rose Hill, Keating 3rd, 5:00 PM |
| Friday, 12 |
Comparative Literature Senior Project Roundtable, Faber 568, 2:30 PM
Anne Buckel
“E.B. White & Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Art and Labor of Writing”
&
Leila Nabizadeh,
"The Exodus of Language: Linguistic Diversity and Migration Portrayed in Southeast Asian Literature" |
| Monday, 15 |
Spring Film Series: Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest, Dealy 115, 5:30 PM |
| Thursday, 18 |
Spring Film Series: Fellini's La Strada, Dealy 115, 5:30 PM |
| Monday, 22 |
Spring Film Series: Powell's The Red Shoes, Flom Auditorium, 5:30 PM |
| Friday, 26 |
Nick Scudamore (Birkbeck College, University of London), "On Powell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes," Keating 319, 11:30 AM |
| Monday, 29 |
Spring Film Series: Godard's Breathless, Dealy 115, 5:30 PM |
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