Our Program

Highlights & Events: 2008-2009


Past Events
  • Comparative Literature Year-End Celebration!
    Friday, May 15, 2009
    11:45 am - 1:30 pm, Sproul Hall Courtyard

    Departmental Citations will be presented; Meet the students and staff of the program; Fun! Fun! Fun!
    Refreshments will be provided.

    For more information, contact Maria Saldana Seibert at msaldana@ucdavis.edu or 530-752-1219.
    See the event flyer (click HERE)

  • An "Illusion of Permanence": Visualizing Legitimacy in Pricely Mysore
    A talk by Janaki Nair, Visiting Professor of History, UC Berkeley
    Friday, May 8, 2009
    4:00-6:00 pm, 53A Olson Hall

    Co-sponsored by the Middle East/South Asian (ME/SA), History, and Comparative Literature Departments
    For more information, please contact Prof. Archana Venkatesan at avenkatesan@ucdavis.edu

  • "Postcolonial Visibilities: Foucault, Deleuze, and the New Media Technologies"
    A talk by Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities, Brown University
    Thursday, May 7, 2009
    4:00-6:00 pm, East Conference Room, Memorial Union

    Sponsored by the Cultural Studies Graduate Group, Spring 2009 Colloqium Series
    Co-Sponsored by Davis Humanities Institute, Comparative Literature, and American Studies

  • "Figures of Comsumption in Kafka and Nietzcche"
    A talk by Stanley Corngold, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Princeton University
    Friday, March 13, 2009, in 912 Sproul Hall, at 12:00 p.m.

    Sponsored by the German Department; Co-sponsored by Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, UC Davis Humanities Institute and English Departments.
    For more information, contact Prof. Gerhard Richter of German Department at grichter@ucdavis.edu or call 752-4999.

  • "Unlucky Deeds: The Fate of Character in Shakespeare"
    A talk by Andrew Escobedo, Associate Professor of English, Ohio University
    Friday, February 27, 2009, in 126 Voorhies Hall, at 4:10 p.m.

    Sponsored by: English Department and Comparative Literature Department
    For more information, please contact the English Department at 752-2257.

  • "The Conversion of the Half-Jews: Psalmody and Allegory in Jacobean England"
    A talk by Beth Quitslund, Associate Professor of English, Ohio University
    Thursday, February 26, 2009, in 126 Voorhies Hall, at 4:10 p.m.

    Sponsored by: Comparative Literature, Early Modern Research Cluster, Music, and Religious Studies Departments
    For more information, please contact the English Department at 752-2257.

  • "Meaning and Absurdity in Euripides' Trojan Women"
    A talk by Pascale Brillet-DuBois, Associate Professor of Greek, Universite Lumiere-Lyon, and Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C.
    Monday, February 23, 2009, in 912 Sproul Hall, at 4:00 p.m.

  • "Hygiene in the Harem: The Orientalism di Belgioioso"
    A talk by Barbara Spackman, Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley
    Thursday, February 19, 2009, in 912 Sproul Hall, at 3:10 p.m.

    Sponsored by: French and Italian Department, Comparative Literature Department, & Women and Gender Studies Department
    For any inquiries, please contact Professor Margherita Heyer-Caput at mheyercaput@ucdavis.edu

  • "Temple Dancers Revisited: History, Aesthetics, Memory in the Courtesan Cultures of Modern South India"
    A talk by Davesh Soneji, Professor of Religious Studies, McGill University (Canada)
    Tuesday, February 10, 2009, in 53A Olson Hall, at 4:30 p.m.

    Sponsored by: Religious Studies Department, Comparative Literature Department, & the Teaching Resource Center (TRC)
    For any inquiries, please contact Professor Archana Venkatesan at avenkatesan@ucdavis.edu.
    For more details, please view the flyer.

  • "Crossing the Strait: Moroccan Illegal Immigration and the Transnational Imaginary"
    A talk by Jonathan Smolin, Assistant Professor of Arabic, Darthmouth College
    Wednesday, February 4, 2009, in 53A Olson Hall, at 10:30 a.m.

  • "Transforming Texts: Darwin between Mahfouz and McEwan."
    A talk by Noha Radwan, Assistant Professor of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Colombia University
    Friday, January 30, 2009, in 53A Olson Hall, at 10 a.m.

  • Fall 2008 WELCOME
    Wednesday, October 29th, 3:30-5:30 p.m., in 912 Sproul
    For more details, please view the flyer


Highlights

  • Prof. Marc Blanchard and Prof. Brenda Schildgen will be leading abroad programs this coming summer. For more details, please click here.

  • Prof. Kari Lokke received a Davis Humanities Institute Fellowship to participate in the faculty research seminar on Science and the Sacred in Fall 2008.

  • Meet UCD Teaching Prize Winner: Prof. Brenda Schildgen
    2008 Recipient of the UCD Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement
    To read more, please click here.

  • Meet UCD Teaching Prize Winner: Prof. Gail Finney
    2007 Recipient of the UCD Distinguished Teaching - Graduate/Professional Award