Join us for a prefatory reading group event preceding Emily Aper’s Nov. 8th talk Against World Literature. On Friday 10/18 we’ll discuss selections of the book (TBA) and we’ll be joined by Gloria Fisk, Assistant Professor, Queens College, who will share her thoughts on the book as well as “World Literature” in general. 10/18 2-4pm rm 5409 at the Graduate Center.

Professor Apter will then join us herself on Friday 11/9 4-6pm rm 4406 at the Graduate Center.

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Nicholas Matlin (NYU) “Utopia, Narrative Form, and Violence in Drum Journalism”

Adam Vasilios Spanos (NYU) “Some thoughts on the Question of the Contemporary”

Christopher Ian Foster (The Graduate Center, CUNY) “‘From Négritude to Migritude’: African Women Writers and Diaspora”

Earl Lin-Wei Liao (The Graduate Center, CUNY) “The Bodily Present: Physical Potentiality and Alternative Temporality in Asian American/Diasporic Literary Practice.”

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