Critical theory
The Department of Comparative Literature collaborates with units across the campus to bring internationally known scholars to UCI. Many of our collaborations involve the Critical Theory Emphasis.
Recently Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at UCI, Etienne Balibar will be returning to UCI for encounters such as this spring mini-series with J. Hillis Miller. Professor Balibar worked with Foucault's late lectures and the concept of parrêsia. Professor Miller's topic was "Mixed Media Forever." Balibar's 1996 UCI Wellek Lectures appeared in French as Violence et civilité (Galilé 2010) and are forthcoming from Columbia UP in English translation as Extreme Violence and the Problem of Civility. For a stimulating review essay on Professor Balibar's recent work, see Bruce Robbins, "Balibarism!" in n+1 (5 April 2013): http://nplusonemag.com/balibarism. Comparative Literature collaborated with the Critical Theory Emphasis on other events over the year: • Eugene Holland Mini-Seminar, "Deleuze and a Thousand Plateaus", October 9, 10 and 12, 2012 • Benedict Anderson, “Monarchies in the Age of Nationalism”, Oct. 12, 2012 • Fred Moten Mini-Seminar, "Just Friends", November 5, 6 and 7, 2012 • Elizabeth Freeman Mini-Seminar, "Sense Methods: Erotohistoriography, Chronochresis, Sacra/Mentality", November 5 and 6, 2012. Dissertation colloquia
Comparative Literature and English graduate students presented talks based on their dissertations-in-progress:
Jason Willwerscheid, “Games, Utopia, and Ecology in the Plays of Lady Gregory" 9 December 2012 Kim Icreverzi, "The Promise of Takakura Ken's Lone-wolf Heroism: On Life, Death, and Being a Man in Toei's Chivalry Films." 10 December 2012 Will Jordan, “Digital Games and the Ludic Posthuman” 13 February 2013 Mark Pangilinan, "'The Monkeys Have No Tails in Zamboanga': Balikbayan Tourism, Cinematic Memory, and the Politics of the Postnational in R. Zamora Linmark's Leche" 27 February 2013 |
Talks
Alessia Ricciardi, from the Departments of French and Italian and Comparative Literature, Northwestern University, delivered a lecture titled "Sublimation and its Discontents" on
6 June 2013. Collaborating with community colleges
Professor Adriana Johnson, Director of Undergraduate Studies, organized two events this year bringing faculty and students from community colleges in our region to our department for discussions about shared interests: the state of the humanities, curriculum, and transfer. Comp Lit majors who transferred from CCs also participated in these discussion. Faculty and students from Mt. San Antonio CC, Saddleback CC, Long Beach City College, Orange Coast College, and College of the Canyons joined in.
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