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Lecture Series – Ayesha Ramachandran, Yale University
"Petrarch’s African Canzoniere: Lyric Anthropology and the Question of Race" with Ayesha Ramachandran (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University) Il PetrarcaFrontispiece.Lyons: per Gioanni de Tournes, 1550 (The Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania). REGISTER HERE About the Lecture Is the rhetoric of Petrarchan...
Lecture Series – UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Adrián I. P-Flores
"Traversing Suicide: The Unthought of Blackness in the Suicidological Imagination" Co-sponsored with the Comparative Literature Program in Experimental Critical Theory RSVP HERE About the Lecture This talk poses a fundamental question: “Is Black suicide possible?” This question aims to excavate, within the contemporary field of suicidology, the systematic riveting of blackness to...
Annual Edward W. Said Lecture – Alexander Weheliye: “Schwarz-Sein: Black Life Beyond the Human”
Date and Time: Friday, May 14, 2021 from 12:00-1:30 PM PST Speaker: Alexander Weheliye, Northwestern University Moderator: Shu-mei Shih, Inaugural edward w. said professor of comparative literature, UCLA Opening Remarks: David Schaberg, Dean of Humanities, UCLA Co-sponsored by the Edward W. Said Professorship in Comparative Literature and “Comparative Thinking in the Age of Black...