Yale University’s Program of Judaic Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature Present the
Yale Annual Seminar on Modern Hebrew Literature and Jewish Literatures
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MIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION
IN MODERN HEBREW LITERATURE AND JEWISH LITERATURES
WEDNESDAY, MAY 10
10:30 am Professor Chana Kronfeld, UC Berkeley Keynote: Migration and Immigration in Modern Hebrew Literature
1:00 pm Professor Adam Rovner, University of Denver American Jewish Literature
3:30 pm ...
Yale Comparative Literature Open Forum presents:
Prof. Marc Caplan (Judaic Studies)
“An Overture to Modernism: Georg Büchner, Karl-Emil Franzos, and the Evolution of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck.”
This lecture will discuss the textual history of Georg Büchner’s posthumous dramatic fragment Woyzeck, from its first publication in the 1870s, forty years after Büchner’s death, to its theatrical debut just before World War I, to its transformation into Alban Berg’s first opera, ...
YALE UNIVERSITY
THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE PRESENTS
Joshua Landy
Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French and Comparative Literature
Stanford University
“In Praise of Depth: or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Hidden”
Monday, March 27, 5 pm
The Comparative Literature Library
Old Campus, Bingham Hall
8th Floor
Reception to Follow
Princeton University has acquired Professor Roberto González Echevarría’s collection of correspondence with Spanish, Latin American, and French writers of note. It will be in Princeton University’s Firestone Library under his name. The collection is titled: Roberto González Echevarría Collection on Severo Sarduy and Other Latin American Writers.
Read more about the collection.
“Roberto González Echevarría is a Cuban-born critic and Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature at...
The Department of Comparative Literature is seeking papers for its upcoming Graduate Conference on March 31st and April 1st, 2017. The Keynote Speaker is University of Waterloo Professor Howard Chiang, and the topic of the conference is ‘Currencies.’ The deadline for submitting abstracts is January 15, 2017. Please see the flyer for more details.
