With responses by Randall Halle (German) and Ronald Zboray (Cultural Studies).
The colloquium aims to draw out the multiple meanings of "Afropean" at the intersection of aesthetic and political forms of expression of the African diaspora. Responses will be given by John Walsh, Department of French and Italian.
James Coleman holds a Ph.D. in Italian from Yale University, and a B.A. in
Classics, also from Yale. He has published research on Italian literature from
the Trecento to the Settecento. His published work includes essays on
Giovanni Boccaccio's De Canaria, Angelo Poliziano and Quattrocento
Florentine humanism, Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, and the thought of
Giambattista Vico. He has forthcoming work on the humanist forger Laudivio
Zacchia, the first vernacular commentary on Lucretius's De rerum natura,
and the Renaissance reception of Boccaccio's Genealogia. He is currently
WU Wenguang, one of the founding figures in Chinese independent documentary, brings three young filmmakers from China to present their collective work, “the Memory Project.” The project is based at Coachangdi Workstation in Beijing. From there, young filmmakers fanned out to return to family villages and their own pasts, real and imagined, to inquire about The Great Famine of 1959-61 — a disaster of whose memories have been actively abandoned by the state.
WU Wenguang, one of the founding figures in Chinese independent documentary, brings three young filmmakers from China to present their collective work, “the Memory Project.” The project is based at Coachangdi Workstation in Beijing. From there, young filmmakers fanned out to return to family villages and their own pasts, real and imagined, to inquire about The Great Famine of 1959-61 — a disaster of whose memories have been actively abandoned by the state.
Actress and scholar Ruth Levin will join in a round table discussion titled "Europe en Miniature at the Margins." Focusing on a "Europe en miniature" at the "eastern-most border" of "Europe"--a region of "books and people," as the poet Paul Celan called it--is a region that is home to Austro-German, Jewish, Romanian, and Ukrainian cultures and has produced many poets who were fluent in several languages.
With responses by Paul Bove (English), Nancy Condee (Global Studies), and Michael Goodhart (Political Science)
Readings for Thursday's colloquium can be found here.
In the early 1920s and 30s, the first purpose-built mosques were established in the United States and Japan. Despite being on the far sides of the planet in Detroit and Kobe, their foundation reflected the ability of South Asian Muslim "religious entrepreneurs" to operate on what was by the 1920s a truly global scale. In tracing the commonalities between this first institutional emergence of Islam in two new world regions, the lecture identifies the global processes of religious competition and exchange and the reasons why Indian Muslims emerged at the forefront of them.
