The Postcolonial Studies Group Colloquium Series Fall 2013
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Emily Apter, New York University
Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability
The Postcolonial Studies Group Colloquium Series Fall 2013
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Emily Apter, New York University
Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability
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/
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.