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Flyer The Comparative Literature Nomad Mentorship Program presents:

“The Silence of the Sirens” by Ken Calhoon

Professor, Departments of German and Scandinavian and Comparative Literature 

“Alternative Voices: Is Silence Golden?” by Yewulsew Endalew 

PhD candidate, ...

Lanie Millar and “Forms of Disappointment”

On Friday, January 29, 2-3 p.m., Dr. Lanie Millar will present from her recent book, Forms of Diasppointment: Cuban and Angolan Narrative after the Cold War (SUNY Press, 2019).  Forms of Disappointment traces the legacies of anti-imperial solidarity in Cuban and Angolan novels and films after ...

Prof. K. Calhoon to give work-in-progress talk

On Friday, January 15th, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m., Ken Calhoon will be presenting a lecture as part of the School of Languages and Global Studies seminar series. The lecture is titled “A Pause in the Action: Reflections on a Cinematic Gesture.” It is taken from Prof. Calhoon’s recently completed ...

Readings of Personal Essays from the Anthology, Fury: Women’s Lived Experiences in the Trump Era

How do we find the language to communicate an experience so often described as unprecedented? Trumpian discourse claims the mantle of authenticity; the essayists in this volume propose an alternative. Readers include: Dina Elenbogen, Mahin Ibrahim, Alissa Hirshfeld-Flores, Heidi Hutner, Cassandra ...

2020 Nomad Conference: Blood

The 2020 Nomad Undergraduate Conference, “Blood,” will be held on Saturday, October 10, 1-3 p.m., in the EMU Redwood Room.

Speakers include:

Gabe Graville Teresa David Téa Ned Jackson Clark Seating is limited and restricted to those with UO ID. To pre-register, contact ...

Spring Dissertation Defenses in COLT!

Join us this month for three exciting dissertation defenses! On Wednesday, May 20, at 2 p.m., Tera Reid-Olds will present and defend, ““The Cross-Currents of Exilic Storytelling: Multilingual Memory and the Maritime Shift” (directed by Michael Allan). On Thursday, May 28, at ...

Middlebrook runs virtual Hispanic poetry festival, “Cancionero de abril y mayo”

During the months of April and May, Prof. Leah Middlebrook is leading the online poetry festival, “Cancionero de abril y mayo.” The festival is produced by the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. Each day, the Society releases a short video in which a contributor reads a poem ...

What Matters To Me

The Department of Comparative Literature presents a faculty talk in the “What Matters To Me” series. Professor Kenneth Calhoon will speak on “Music of the Third Kind: Disney’s Fantasia; Mann’s Doctor Faustus.” The talk is scheduled on: Monday, March 2, at 4 p.m. ...

Nomad Speaker Event

The Comparative Literature Nomad Mentorship Program invites you to our annual Speaker Event. The 2020 theme for the Mentorship Program is “Blood.” Tuesday evening’s speakers will be Katy Brundan, speaking on “Tainted Bloodlines: Conceptualizing Fraud in the Vampire’s ...

Nov. 15-16 – Symposium on Race, Racialization and the Early Modern – Emerging views

COLT invites you to join guests David Sterling Brown (SUNY Binghamton), Nick Jones (Bucknell U), Christina Lee (Princeton) and Marc Schacter (Durham, U.K.) and respondents Lara Bovilsky (ENG), Leah Middlebrook (COLT), Amanda Powell (RL) and David Wacks (RL) as we consider new research and emerging ...

What Matters to Me

Please mark your calendars for the first installment of our Comparative Literature works-in-progress series, What Matters to Me! Our fall term speaker is Jenifer Presto (COLT/REEES). Professor Presto will present her talk, “Afterglow: Nabokov, Pompeii, and the Atomic Age” on Friday, November 1, ...

Expressionist Cinema and the Romantic Modern

Please join colleagues, students and friends at a talk by Ken Calhoon (COLT/GER), “Expressionist Cinema and the Romantic Modern.” The talk will take place on Weds. Oct 30, from 3:30-5 p.m. in 101 Chapman.
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