A Conversation with Alexis Tadié

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

ADVANCED REGISTRATION REQUIRED BY 12PM PST ON 5/19/25

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

3:00-5:00pm PST

Kaplan Hall Room #348 (third floor)

This talk is part of the Edward W. Said Series organized by Dr. Anjali Prabhu, Professor and Edward W. Said Chair in Comparative Literature.

About the Talk

This paper focuses on Arab novels in English which address the 2011 Arab revolutions. I will investigate how these novels are caught between the urge to write about the present moment, and the acknowledgment of its complex temporal nature. By looking in turn at novels from Libya, Egypt, and Syria, I hope to bring to light their quest for a narrative of the revolutions.

About the Speaker

Alexis Tadié is professor of Anglophone literatures at Sorbonne University and honorary senior research fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France. He specialises in eighteenth-century literature and intellectual history, as well as in sports studies, and in postcolonial literatures. His recent publications include Les règles du jeu à l’époque de la première modernité. Eds. Line Cottegnies, Clara Manco, Alexis Tadié. Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2025; Writing from India: Literatures in English. Special issue of Etudes Anglaises 77/2. (2024), Edited by Alexis Tadié.

Campus Parking

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