The Asia Center Seminar Series, CMES, and the Department of Comparative Literature present a panel on the politics of literary language with
Shaden Tageldin, University of Minnesota
Nergis Ertürk, Pennsylvania State University
Fallou Ngom, Boston University
Henk Maier, University of California Riverside, Emeritus
Panel:
At the Hinge of Africa and Asia: Transregional Reinventions of World and Comparative Literature
Shaden Tageldin, Professor, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, U. Minnesota
Suat Dervis, the Language of Turkish Communism, and the Socialist Realist Novel
Nergis Ertürk, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University
Long Durée and Local Innovations in West African Ajami Traditions
Fallou Ngom, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the African Studies Center, Boston University
Malay as a literary/writing language in the Indian Ocean
Henk Maier, Luce Professor of Southeast Asian Studies Emeritus, University of California, Riverside
Chair: Annette Lienau, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
ORGANIZERS: Asia Center, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Comparative Literature
WEBSITE: https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/transregional-politics-literary-language-comparative-work-across-african-and-asian?delta=0
LOCATION:CGIS South, Rm S250, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20190221T220000Z DTEND:20190222T000000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR