The Postcolonial Studies Group Colloquium Series Fall 2013

10/16/2013

Fiona Lee

Doctoral Candidate, The Graduate Center

NYU-CUNY Postcolonial Studies Symposium

 “Epistemological Checkpoint: Reading Fiction as a Translation of History”

6-8pm 5414

10/18/2013

Gloria Fisk

Queens College

World Literature Discussion Group

Rm 5409 2-4pm

11/1/2013

Meena Alexander, The Graduate Center and Hunter College

Robert Young (respondent), New York University

 Birthplace With Buried Stones, a reading

20 Cooper Sq., New York University

11/8/2013

Emily Apter

New York University

Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability

In conversation with Peter Hitchcock, The Graduate Center and Baruch

4-6pm Rm 4406

11/22/2013

Roundtable on Aimé Césaire’s Centennial

Christopher Winks, Queens College

Barbara Webb, The Graduate Center and Hunter College

3-4pm 5409

 

Talks are held in rm. 5409 on Fridays at 2 p.m. unless otherwise noted. All are welcome.

The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016.

 

The Postcolonial Studies Group is a chartered organization of the Doctoral Students’ Council. Please visit our website at http://opencuny.org/psg/

10/18/13 World Literature discussion group with Gloria Fisk, QC

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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