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19 January 2018
UCL COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STATE OF THE DISCIPLINE WORKSHOP 4:00-4:45 What does it mean to study comparative literature today? Lecture by Professor Mads Rosendahl Thomsen (Aarhus University) Prof. Rosendahl Thomsen is the author of Mapping World Literature: International Canonization and Transnational Literature (2008), The New Human in Literature: Posthuman Visions of Changes in Body, Mind and Society (2013), and the editor of several volumes, including World Literature: A Reader (2012) and The Posthuman Condition: Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics of Biotechnological Challenges (2012). He is a member of the Academia Europea, an advisory board member of the Institute for World Literature and a member of the executive committee of the International Comparative Literature Association. 4:45-6:00 Student workshop led by Dr Stefano Rossoni (UCL Comparative Literature) Taking our inspiration form the ACLA State of the Discipline Report, this workshop invites students to reflect on how they perceive the study of Comparative Literature based on how the discipline is taught and practiced at UCL and their own experiences and expectations as young comparatists. By the end of the workshop, participating students will produce and publish a short texts that will make up a blog on the state of Comparative Literature at UCL and beyond. |