On Tuesday, March 29, 2:30-5:30pm, Yale will host a symposium on the career of the Uzbek writer Hamid Ismailov. Ismailov is the preeminent contemporary Central Asian novelist, and a founding member of the Fergana School, one of the most important Russophone poetry scenes of the post-Soviet moment. A panel of critics including Sam Hodgkin and Leah Feldman will survey his literary career, and a panel of his English translators including Robert Chandler will discuss the experience of translating...
MLN Special Issue on Rüdiger Campe’s “Writings Scenes”
The comparatist issue of Modern Language Notes 2021 – which has appeared at the beginning of 2022 – is devoted to Rüdiger Campe’s conceptualization of the “writing scene.” https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/47271. Together with further contributions from literary to media studies, the issue features the translation of Campe’s 1991 essay and a new piece on the subject.
Jing Tsu, the John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Studies & Comparative Literature at Yale University, has published her most recent work Kingdom of Characters.The Language Revolution That Made China Modern with Penguin Randomhouse in January of 2022. The book has immediately met with great public attention. For the latest witness of many other prestigious reviews see the cover and the lead review article of the New York Review of Books from 2/6/2022.
Jing Tsu (link is external), the John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Studies & Comparative Literature at Yale University, will contribute to coverage of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony on NBC and Peacock, as well as NBC’s first night of primetime coverage on Thursday, Feb. 3.
For more information on coverage of the Olympic Games, please click here (link is external) (link is external).
The international journal Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory has published a 34-page review essay on Martin Hägglund’s book This Life, entitled “The Lives of Marx: Hägglund and Marx’s Philosophy after Pippin and Postone.” Read it here:
https://brill.com/view/journals/hima/aop/article-10.1163-1569206X-12342066/article-10.1163-1569206X-12342066.xml
In the face of Poland’s escalating anti-LGBTQ legislation, Prof. Marta Figlerowicz–the country’s first openly non-binary public intellectual–recently published an extended interview in Polityka, the largest-circulation Polish political weekly. The interview follows upon her many previous essays as well as radio, TV, and digital media commentaries on Eastern European gender politics and norms.
Professor Martin Hägglund was interviewed by The Philosopher, the longest-running public philosophy journal in the UK, for the special issue devoted to his book This Life:
See article here.
