Past Events

January 25, 2012
Public Lecture: "About the Social Relevance of the Study of Culture and Literature"
Steven Totosy de Zepetnek

February 10, 2010
12:00-1:15 p.m., SC G040
"Myths, Fables, and other Brazilian Stories"
Presented by Professor Newton Seixas
Department Head of DLG/ILUFBA in Salvador-Bahia, Brazil

October 13, 2010
10:30 a.m., STEW 218AB
"Rethinking Gender Politics & Martial Arts in the Tang Dynasty: Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers"
Presented by Ya-Chen Chen, Ph.D. (Clark University)
Sponsored by the Asian Studies Program, the School of Languages & Cultures, the Comparative Literature Program, the Department of History and the Confucius Institute

"Shakespeare's Pericles: Authorship, the Just Gods, and Experimental Drama"
Presented by Dr. Dharani dhar Sahu
Berhampur University, Berhampur, Orissa, India
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
4:30 p.m., Anniversary Drawing Room

"A (n Obstacle) Course in Paradise Lost"
Monday, March 30, 2009
10:00 a.m. - Coffee and breakfast breads available
10:30-11:20 - a group of Purdue undergraduates from ENGL 444/444H/544: Milton" will complete activities as fast as they can to Paradise Lost - reciting memorized invocations; running blindfolded; putting together puzzles; eating an orange (NOT an apple!); running without spilling a glass of water; and more.

"Faust"
Presented by Steven Ritz-Barr, Film Producer and Puppet Artist from Los Angeles
Monday, February 23, 2009
1:30-2:20 p.m., Stanley Coulter G40

4:00-4:50 p.m., Stanley Coulter 102

East Asian Lecture Series
Monday, February 23
3:00-4:00 p.m., Recitation Hall, Room 315
"Hongloumeng (Dream of the Red Chamber) and the 'Qishu' Genre of Classic Chinese Fiction"
Presented by Andrew H. Plaks, Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, Princeton University

Comparative Literature Graduate Student Lunches
12:00-1:00 p.m. in HEAV 320

February 19
March 12
April 16

Fall 2008 Comparative Literature Events Calendar

"A Gendered Discourse on Time and Space"
Leah B. Glasser, Dean of First-Year Students and
Professor of English, Mount Holyoke College
Monday, October 6, 2008
4:30-5:45
Stanley Coulter, Room 108

Comparative Literature Undergraduate Reception
Thursday, October 9, 2008
3:30-4:00 p.m.
HSSE Library, Room 353
Join us for refreshments before Professor Angelica Duran's very Comp Lit (English and Spanish Literature) presentation from 4:00-5:30 p.m.

Comparative Literature Undergraduate Reception
Thursday, October 23, 2008
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Brass Rail Room, PMU Basement
BYOLunch and/or indulge in the baked goods available for the lunch break of the Renaissance Comparative Prose Conference (RCPC).

Renaissance Comparative Prose Conference
Thursday, October 23 and Friday, October 24

English Department Literature Series
(Some events sponsored by Comparative Literature)

Susanna Piontek German Literature Reading

Guy Stern Lecture
Lecture Flier

Nie Zhenzhao Lecture

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