What Would Cervantes Do?
Gilman 479 A discussion with David Castillo and William Egginton on their latest book
Movie Screening – The Imported Bridegroom
Johns Hopkins Hillel 3109 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MarylandStudy Break with Snacks and Movie.
Botticelli’s Secret
Gilman 50 Synopsis: Some 500 years ago, Sandro Botticelli, an Italian painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence’s unofficial rulers, the Medici, he […]
Body Shaming: Obscenity, Materiality, and the Ontology of German Realist Literature
Gilman 479Erica Weitzman (PhD, Comparative Literature, NYU, 2012) is Associate Professor of German at Northwestern University. She is the author of Irony’s Antics: Walser, Kafka, Roth, and the German Comic Tradition (Northwestern […]
Ökopoetiken: Literarische Umwelten
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“Jewish Primitivism” – Samuel J. Spinner
Mergenthaler Room #426JHU Anthropology Department Fall 2023 Colloquium Series - Jewish Primitivism book by Dr. Samuel J. Spinner. In discussion with Clara Han (JHU), Andrew Brandel (University of Chicago), Talia Katz (JHU), […]
Blood Novels: Gender, Caste, and Race in Spanish Realism
Presenter: Julia Chang, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Cornell University, will be joining us to discuss her award-winning book, Blood Novels: Gender, Caste, and Race in Spanish Realism (U Toronto P, 2022). […]
Beyond the Theologico-Political: Hannah Arendt and the Principle of Beginning
Presenter: Facundo Vega, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Description: What can and should be the promise of politics today? How does politics begin anew? In his talk, political philosopher Facundo Vega examines the strengths and limitations […]
Film Screening: The Hidden Life of Trees / Das geheime Leben der Bäume
Gilman 479Screening of the film The Hidden Life of Trees (Das geheime Leben der Bäume), based on Peter Wohlleben's bestselling book by the same title. This event is sponsored by the […]
The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature
Prof. SARAH M. QUESADA, Duke University
Friday, October 27, 4pm
Gilman 476
THE AFRICAN HERITAGE OF LATINX AND CARIBBEAN LITERATURE
Sarah M. Quesada’s book illustrates a “Latin-African” history: an untold story that challenges dominant narratives in world literature and transatlantic studies that ignore Africa's impact in broader Latin American culture. A book that defies the separation of fields according to colonial languages, Quesada shows how themes such as the 19th century Belgian “scramble for the Congo,” the decolonizing war in Angola, and the neoliberal turn in Nigeria are embedded in some of the most noted authors of Latin American decent in the last fifty years. This is also the first book-length project to address the African colonial and imperial inheritance of Latinx literature.