Hala Halim, Associate Professor, New York University "Arab Modernity/Modernism, and the Case of Edwar al-Kharrat" Wed November 8, 4-6pm 904 Clemens Dr. Halim's talk will be preceded that day by an informal conversation with graduate students over coffee from 2-3pm, also in 904 Clemens. The Modernisms Research Workshop will also hold a discussion session of […]
Christopher Bush (Northwestern University) “Minimal Totalization: The Haiku as Modernist Form” Christopher Bush (Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, UCLA) is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University. His research and teaching focus on transnational and interdisciplinary approaches to literary modernisms, especially the interactions between Euro-American and East Asian aesthetic theory, avant-gardes, and […]
Adalberto Müller (Universidade Federal Fluminense) is currently visiting scholar at UB, translating Emily Dickinson into Portuguese. Please stop by for light snacks and Portuguese-English poetry readings of both Dickinson and the Brazilian poet João Cabral de Melo Neto. Sponsored by the HI Modernisms Research Workshop.
A talk on Brazilian modernism of the 1950s and 60s: the construction of Brasília, the emergence of Bossa Nova, and the poetic experimentation of João Cabral de Melo Neto. Adalberto Müller is a professor of literary theory and film studies at the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro, and a visiting scholar at UB. […]
MARIANO SISKIND is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He teaches nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American Literature with emphasis on its world literary relations, as well as the production of cosmopolitan discourses and processes of aesthetic globalization. He is the author of over two dozen academic essays and […]
MRW Opening Reception Thursday 6 September, 4:00–6:00 pm 904 Clemens Hall Food will be provided. We will discuss upcoming events for the year and also request your input regarding works-in-progress workshops and discussion sessions on current research.
Stefano Rosignoli (Trinity College Dublin), this year’s Humanities Institute James Joyce Fellow. He has been in Buffalo since May working at the Poetry Collection, and his talk will focus on the early James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. More particulars: Stefano Rosignoli (TCD) Friday 7 September, 2:00–3:30 Poetry Collection Seminar Room (Capen 420).
Please join us for Justin Read's triumphant return to the Modernist Research Workshop, for a work-in-progress session on a chapter titled “The Face of the Moon, or How I Learned to Love the Machine in Buenos Aires.” We will be meeting on Thursday 15 November, from 3:30--5:00, in Clemens 904, to discuss this new work, […]
MRW inaugural spring reading session Peter Szendy, from All Ears (2017) Monday 11 February, 12:00--1:30 Clemens 904: lunch will be provided. Download: szendy discipline and listen
The Sun Island is an essay film about coincidences, shattered lives and posthumous fame. A found footage family film about love and passion, friendship and heartbreak set in Frankfurt and Berlin between the wars (1927-1935), during WWII and into the present. It includes the history of the Frankfurt Großmarkhalle (Central Market)– a landmark building of […]
