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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4/24 NYU-CUNY Postcolonial Studies Graduate Student Symposium

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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Ruling Like a Foreigner: Literature, Theory and the Question of Third World Authoritarianism

The CUNY Graduate Center

Postcolonial Studies Group Colloquium Series 2009-2010

The Postcolonial Studies Group presents:

Jini Kim Watson

New York University

Ruling Like a Foreigner: Literature, Theory and the Question of Third World Authoritarianism

Dec 4th at 2 p.m.

CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5409

All are welcome.

Jini Kim Watson (PhD, Duke University, Literature, 2006) is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University where she teaches postcolonial theory and literature. She has published on postcolonial East and Southeast Asia in the journals Postcolonial Studies, Contemporary Literature and Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique (forthcoming). She has recently completed a book manuscript entitled The New Asian City: Space, Urban Form and Three-dimensional Fictions. Her most recent work concerns comparative theorizations of dictatorships in postcolonial literature and theory.

The CUNY Graduate Center is located at 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 www.opencuny.org/psg

Questions? Email Fiona Lee at fiona.lee@gmail.com.

Flyer [pdf]