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Reception of War in Contemporary European Literatures

Organizer: Olha Voznyuk

The Russian full-scale invasion on Ukraine in 2022 brought back the question of war, its representation and reception in literature and culture in contemporary writing. In spite of the idea that war... more

Sex Negativity II (We Have Never Had Sex)

Organizer: Marija Cetinic

Sex Negativity II (We Have Never Had Sex) Continuing from the 2023 Sex Negativity seminar in Chicago, this panel thinks through sex and negativity in relation to psychoanalytic theories of the... more

The Feuilleton and Modern Jewish Cultures

Organizer: Marina Mayorski

Since the late eighteenth century, the feuilleton has been one of the most popular and most controversial forms of writing in newspapers throughout the world. First published in France, feuilletons... more

History, Modernity, and Second World Forms

Organizer: Zachary Hicks

How might renewed attention to the cultural production of the former Second World help us move past one of the defining impasses of literary studies after globalization: namely, the antinomy between... more

Arabic Literature, or The Ancient in the Modern

Organizer: Kevin Blankinship

“It would appear,” wrote Syrian poet Adunis in his Introduction to Arab Poetics, “that the return to the ancient has been more eagerly pursued whenever the internal conflict has intensified, or the... more

Mimesis in a Global and Historical Context

Organizer: Samuel Hodgkin

Mimesis is a fundamental way of conceiving of the relationship between artistic expression and reality in Western thinking. It has been theorized in depth in the western context over the centuries... more