Previous Events Sponsored by the Program
Fall 2023
October
Lecture & Workshop by Dr. Cecilia Enjuto Rangel, University of Oregon
The Comparative Literature Program presents a lecture by Dr. Cecilia Enjuto Rangel,
Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon.
Lecture title: "The Politics of Affect and its Sticky Objects in Louis Malle's Au
revoir les enfants (France, 1987) and Andres Wood's Machuca (Chile 2004)".
October 26. Online, 12:00-1:20 p.m.
Zoom ID: 494 639 4679
Passcode: 5758
Workshop title: "Academic Publishing in Comparative Literature".
Film Screening: "Machuca", by Andrés Wood
The Comparative Literature Graduate Association presents Andrés Wood's Machuca (Chile 2004)
Andrés Wood's "Machuca" presents a powerful coming-of-age story inspired by the childhood memories of Andrés Wood. Set in Chile at the time of the military coup that overthrew Chile’s popularly elected democratic socialist president, Salvador Allende, and imposed Augusto Pinochet’s long-lasting dictatorship, the movie centers on social scission, traumatic memory, and friendship. The film stars Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna and Aline Küppenheim. One hour and twenty minutes. In Spanish with English subtitles. Comparative Literature Graduate Students will lead a discussion after the movie.
Tuesday, October 24, 5:00 p.m., Lockett Hall 15.
Spring 2023
February
Lecture by Comparative Literature Professor and Carnegie Fellow Dr. Andrew Sluyter
Lecture title: "The Iconography of Death in the Logbooks of the Dutch Atlantic Slave
Trade of the Eighteenth Century".
February 23. Dean's Office, Hodges 155, 12-1 PM. Learn more about Dr. Sluyter's lecture.
March
7th Annual Languages & Literatures Conference
Organized by the Comparative Literature and French Studies programs' respective graduate
associations.
March 9-11. Online. Learn more about the Language & Literatures conference.
Spanish Film Festival
Organized by the Comparative Literature Graduate Association.
March 9-11. Online. Learn more about the Spanish Film Festival.
April
Lecture by Comparative Literature Graduate Student Negar Basiri
Lecture title: "Anonymity as the Immemorial Exile: A Shared Space in Iranian, French,
and American Texts".
April 13. Dean's Office, Hodges 155, 12:30-1:30 PM.
October 18
LSU Comparative Literature 2022-2023 Invited Lecture Series Proudly Presents:
Borderline Stories: Migrants at the Limits of History
with Dr. William Boelhower of Ca'Foscari University, Venice
Time: 4:30-6:00 PM
Place: 216 Prescott Hall
Refreshments will be Served
September 29
Teaching World Literature
A Workshop with Alexader Schmidt and Meghan Hodges
Zoom Link: https://lsu.zoom.us/j/8114349610
Meeting ID: 811 434 9610
Time: 9:30 AM Sep. 29th, 2022
April 14
Invitation: Please join us next Thursday, April 14, for two exciting presentations
Speaker: Professor Olivia Loksing Moy (Associate Professor at City University of New York, Lehman College):
Seminar: 1:30-2:45, Allen 202: "The Cortázar Continuum: Translation from Rabassa to Blackburn"This discussion on the role of the literary translator is designed especially for graduate students and for those with an interest in translation studies.
Lecture: 3:30-4:45, Allen 102: "Keats’ Chameleon, Cortázar’s Axolotl: Vida y Cartas de John
Keats"
This talk will treat the Argentinian author Julio Cortázar (1914-1984), a perspicacious
reader and avid lover of all things Keats. She will set Cortázar's translations in
the context of Keats's Hispanophone reception and the surprising afterlife of his
poetry preceding the Latin American Boom.
Contact Information: http://www.olivialoksingmoy.com/
https://lehman.edu/academics/arts-humanities/english/olivia-moy.php
April 7-8, 2022
On Space and Place: 6th Annual Virtual Conference
Organized by: The Comparative Literature Program and French Studies Graduate Student Associations
Funded by: LSU's Programming, Support, & Initiatives Fund
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Imane Terhmina
Guest Speakers: Dr Greg Stone, Dr. Sharon Weltman, and Dr. Alan Sikes
Time: Apr. 7,-9:00 AM - 4:10
Apr. 8, 9:30 AM - 5 PM
Venue: Apr. 7 ZOOM link: https://lsu.zoom.us/j/9767678859
Apr. 8 ZOOM link: https://lsu.zoom.us/j/3807241446
February 14, 2022
Lecture: Stories of Our Lives: Material Culture, Memory, and Narrative on the Bóveda
Speaker: Dr. Solimar Otero
Time: Monday, Feb. 14, 2022 at 3:00 PM
Place: Design Building 103
Sponsored by: CPLT, English WGS, Anthropology, Philosophy & Religious Studies; World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; Linguistics; and the College of HSS
October 28, 2021
Lecture: Reimagining Gender
in 21st Century Latin American Cinema
Speaker: Dr. Moira Fradinger
Time: Oct. 28, 4:30 - 6:00 PM on Zoom
Zoom Link: https://lsu.zoom.us/j/
Organized by: Dr. Laura Martins
September 20th, 2021
Notes on the Profession:
How to Identify, Apply for, and Win Fellowships
Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Kahan
Monday,
Time: Monday, Sept. 14, 1:30 to 3:00 on Zoom
April 14th, 2021
After Modernism: Women, Gender, Race
Presented by: College of Humanities & Social Sciences, Comparative Literature Program, Dept. of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Guest Speaker: Dr. Pelagia Goulimari
Time: Apr. 14, 4:30 PM via ZOOM
Meeting Id: 494 639 4679
Passcode: 5758
March 4-6, 2021
How Bodies Matter: 5th Annual Virtual Conference
Presented by: The Comparative Literature Program and French Studies Graduate Student Associations
Guest Speakers: Dr Sayak Valencia and Dr. Antje Ziethen
Time: March 4-6 Venue: ZOOM
Call for Papers!
*Abstracts Should be 250 words in length
*Please include a short biographical note, including University affiliation and area of study
*Presentations should be 15-20 minutes in length
*UPDATED Deadline: January 31, 2021
February 10, 2021
LSU COMPARATIVE LITERATURE WORKSHOP WITH ALUMNI
Dr. Eustis Richmond and Dr. Alexandra Reuber
Time: 5:45 PM via ZOOM
October 28, 2020
Teaching World Literature: A Workshop
Jing Tan and Ikea Johnson
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Venue: ZOOM
October 12, 2020
“The Reclining Woman in Emilia Pardo Bazán’s Un viaje de novios [The Wedding Trip]”
Dr. James Mandrell
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Venue: ZOOM
October 8, 2020
World Literature Teaching Workshop
Dr. John Pizer
TIme: 3:00 p.m.
Venue: ZOOM
September 30, 2020
“The Birth of Spanish in 3D: A Search for Its Origins” lecture “A Holy Ghost: King Alfonso X of Castile (d. 1284) and the Anxiety of Sonship”
Dr. Ryan Szpiech
TIme: 12:30-3:00 p.m.
Venue: ZOOM
Spring 2019
"Shakespeare's Strange Fruit: Race, Complicity, and Illegitimacy"
Dr. Ruben Espinosa,
Associate Professor of English from the University of Texas at El Paso
Date: December 3, 3019
Venue: Lockett Hall 16
Time: 3:00-4:15 p.m.
Poet Salgado Maranhão and Translator Alexis Levitin
Brazil and Portugal
Reading and Discussion
Date: April 22, 2019
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Venue Art & Design
The Comparative Literature Graduate Association Presents with the support of the LSU Department of French Studies: The 3rd Annual Languages and Literatures Conference
March 29-30, 2019
Keynote Address by Françoise Lionnet
Harvard University
March 30, 2019
5:00 p.m.
LSU Women's Center
Louisiana Slave Conspiracies: A Digital Project
Dr. Bryan Wagner
University of California, Berkeley
Date: March 26, 2019
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Allen 113
Fall 2018
Archives of Conjure: Residual Transcriptions
Dr. Solimar Otero, Associate Professor, English; LSU
Date: November 9, 2018
Time: 3:30 pm
Venue: 113 Allen
Teaching World Literature Workshop
Dr. Adelaide Russo;
Date: November 19, 2018
Time: 12 Noon
Venue: 202 Allen
Comparative Literature, Women’s and Gender Studies, the Writing Program, and Louisiana and Caribbean Studies Present: On Multimodality
Brown Bag Workshop: Multimodal Composing
Jonathan Alexander,
Chancellor’s Professor of English, Informatics, Gender and Sexuality Studies
University of California, Irvine
Date: September 14, 2018
Time: 12 Noon-1:30 pm
Venue: LSU Library 241A
In this workshop discussion, Jonathan Alexander describes why inviting students to compose multimodal projects offer them an opportunity to think creatively, rhetorically, and critical.
Burning Time: Memory and Queer Imagination
Jonathan Alexander, Chancellor’s Professor of English, Informatics, Gender and Sexuality
Studies
University of California, Irvine.
Date: September 13, 2018
Time: 3-4:30 pm
Venue: 234 Prescott
This multimedia presentation describes a hybrid poetry and art project, entitled ‘Burning Time’, in which Jonathan Alexander reflects queer work of imagining memories as a form of restorative history making for queer subjects.
Fall 2018 Louisiana and Caribbean Studies Lecture Series: Film Screening: Amigo Skate, Cuba (2018)
* Winner 2018 Miami Film Festival Knight Documentary Achievement Award*
Q&A by James Wilkey
PhD Candidate, History, LSU
Date: August 24, 2018
Time: 2-4:30 pm,
Venue: 234 Prescott
Workshop on Teaching World Literature
Dr. John Pizer, Foreign Languages
Emily O’Dell, PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature
Ben Howland, PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature
Date: September7, 2018
Time: 3-4:30 p.m.
Venue: 234 Prescott
Spring 2018
2nd Annual Literature and Languages Conference
Call for Papers:
“Time, Consciousness, and Exile”
March 9-10, 2018
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge Campus
Brujx-ing Donald Trump
Afro-Latinx Ritual Activism in Contemporary Politics
Professor Aisha Boliso-De Jesús, Harvard University
Date: March 7, 2018
The French House, Strawberry Salon
The election od Donald Trump to the US presidency has thrown into relief how racism, sexism, and patriarchy continued to be intimately entwined with contemporary politics. For those who practice African diasporic religions, “witchcraft” or brujería has historically been a strategy to reveal types of oppression. This talk examines the collective political strategy of brujx-ing against Donald Trump, tracing how African diasporic practitioners are deploying ritual hexes, offerings, prayers, rites, and other collective works to thwart Trump’s social objectives.
Event co-sponsored by the College of Humanities and Social Science, the Ogden Honors college, Comparative Literature, Geography and Anthropology, English, and African and African American studies.
L&S Lecture Series, Spring 2018
“Creative Control: Navigating Foreign Presence in Contemporary Dominican and Cuban
Narrative Film.”
Dr. Andrea Morris, Foreign Languages, LSU
Date: February 21, 2018
Time: 12 Noon
Venue: 138 Prescott
During the 2000s, Dominican writer Aurora Arias, Cuban Alberto Guerra Naranjo and Mylene Fermández Pintado and Cuban director Daniel Diaz Torres have explored the effects of increasing international travel to their home countries, dealing with sex and tourism, but also travel by foreign academicians and artists. Through the perspective of characters who are local and foreign travel writers, filmmakers, and scholars, these works highlight the ethics and politics of mobility, existing in transnational encounters, and the ramifications for the creative process and careers of Caribbean artists and intellectuals.
Fall 2017
The LSU Programs in Comparative Literature and Louisiana and Caribbean Studies Present:
“Homer’s Odyssey and Caribbean Epic: Questions of Origin and Cultures of Mingling”
Dr. Michelle Zerba, Department of English
Date: November 6, 2017
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Venue: 234 Prescott
The LSU Programs in Comparative Literature and Louisiana and Caribbean Studies Present:
Transnational Graduate Research from LSU
“Islands, Place, and International Relations”
Rosa Lazarao , Department of History
Pedro Ramos, Department of History
Maria Anna Zazzarino, Program in Comparative Literature
Date: October 13, 2017
Time: 2:30-4:30pm
Venue: 234 Prescott
LSU PhD Graduate students will share their findings from research done abroad during the summer 2017. This roundtable will discuss transnational connections in history, politics, and literature.
Refreshments will be served.
Fall 2017 Louisiana and Caribbean Studies Lecture Series: “Where’s Our Heritage? Ancestor
and Protests at Jazz Fest”
Dr. Helen Regis, Geography and Anthropology
Date: September 6, 2017
Time: 12:30 pm
Venue: 234 Prescott
Dr. Helen Regis received her Bachelor of Arts from Loyola University, a Master of Arts and PhD from Tulane University. She is currently an associate professor of Anthropology at Louisiana State University. Regis’ interests include Cultural Anthropology, Blackness, Performance, Urban Spaces: Anthropology of Cities; Africa and African Diaspora: New Orleans, Benin, Cuba, and Cameron.
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