Seminars

Symbolic Animals: On Representation

Organizer: Alya Ansari

In a germinal essay of literary study, W.J.T. Mitchell observes that the human, “for many philosophers both ancient and modern, is the “representational animal,” homo symbolicum, the creature whose... more

Art, Marginality and Existentialism: Strategies For an Authentic Social Reform

Organizer: Amrit Mishra

The west-centric understanding of existentialism has only looked at the efficacy of existentialism as a philosophy trapped in the clutches of wartime. A look at existential philosophy and its social... more

ACLA 2023

Organizer: Nwankwo Nwaezeigwe

STRENGTH, SPIRITUALISM AND ROMANCE IN ACHEBE’S THINGS FALL APART Nwankwo Tony. Nwaezeigwe ... more

The Short Story's Global Dimensions

Organizer: Gavin Jones

The genre of the short story can seem compounded into a national narrative of emergence, theorization, and outsized importance in the United States. As Michael Collins has noted, the formal closure... more

'Wrong Art': Contemporary Conformity, Morality, and the Issue of 'Artistic Value'

Organizer: Armando Maggi

This seminar addresses the issue of 'wrong' works of art, that is artistic artifacts that we perceive as 'wrong,' 'unacceptable,' although they also seem to express an artistic value. The questions... more

The Ottoman Empire, Its Minoritized Voices, and the Global South

Organizer: Arif Camoglu

This seminar shifts the focus from hegemonic narratives of and about the Ottoman Empire to epistemic, aesthetic, sociocultural and political imaginaries of minoritized communities in and outside the... more

Creative Nonfiction

Organizer: Dibakar Pal

Creative writing is based more on manifestation rather than on expression. It does not inform, rather it reveals. So it bears no reference. The best creative writing is critical, and the best... more

Rigor

Organizer: Liza Michaeli

Kafka. All this agitation should be controlled Weil. May this body move or be still, with perfect suppleness or rigidity, in continuous conformity to thy will Peter 4 : 7. Be ye therefore... more

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