Series Events
Series Events
Faculty Lecture Series: Jerusalem within Athens: The Theological Substratum of Derrida's 'Plato's Pharmacy'
- Speaker: Azzan Yadin-Israel, Professor of Jewish Studies and Classics
- Event Type: Faculty Lecture Series
- Speaker University: Rutgers University
- Event Date: 2025-10-22
- Event Start Time: 11:30 AM
- Event End Time: 1:30 PM
- Event Location: Academic Building 4052
Jerusalem within Athens: The Theological Substratum of Derrida's 'Plato's Pharmacy'
"Plato's Pharmacy," Jacque Derrida's study of Plato's Phaedrus, has exerted massive influence on critical theory as well as the study of Plato. In this presentation, I put forth two interrelated arguments. First, that the essay is indefensible as a reading of Plato. Second, that exegetical coherence is of secondary import, since "Plato's Pharmacy," despite its surface form, is concerned less with Plato than with Christianity and Judaism as modes of textual understanding. (Photo credit: Joel Robine/AFP/Getty Images)
Comparative Worldings: The Case of Indian Literatures
- Speaker: PROF. PREETHA MANI
- Event Type: Faculty Lecture Series
- Event Date: 2019-04-08
- Event Location: Academic Building 4050
You are cordially invited to join us for a presentation by:
PROF. PREETHA MANI
“Comparative Worldings: The Case of Indian Literatures”
Through the juxtaposition of the Indian-English, Hindi, and Tamil literary spheres, this talk argues for a focus on how writers and texts perform acts of “worlding,” rather than defining which texts belong in the global literary canon, as contemporary scholarship has done. Such acts mobilize “world literature” to define certain texts as “literary,” while simultaneously concealing other existing literary processes and social relations.
Exploring how prominent writing circles in London, North India, and Madras “worlded” Indian literature reveals not only that the national language question engendered multiple politics of literary translation, but also that a theory of translation underpins any conception of world literature.
What a comparative worlding approach offers, then, is attention to the political stakes in framing relations between region, nation, and world. More specifically, it shows how processes of worlding — whether at the scale of the regional, the national, or the global — elevate some texts and exclude others from the category of the “literary.”
The unique approaches to translation and Indian literature that these writers formulated in response to the national language debate illustrate multiple and varied acts of worlding, offering alternative avenues through which to understand the categories of Indian and world literature.
Dante, Franciscan Poverty, and the Donation of Constantine
- Speaker: Prof. Alessandro Vettori
- Event Type: Faculty Lecture Series
- Speaker University: Rutgers University
- Event Date: 2019-04-19
Istanbul 1940 and Global Modernity: The World According to Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar and Edib
- Speaker: Prof. E. Khayyat
- Event Type: Faculty Lecture Series
- Speaker University: Rutgers University
- Event Date: 2019-02-14
- Event Location: 15 Seminary Place (West)
BROWN BAG LUNCH WITH PROF. E. KHAYYAT
AMESALL AND COMP LIT
The Rutgers Program in Comparative Literature
Thursday Feb. 14, 2019
12:00 – 1:30pm
The talk will begin shortly after noon.
All students and faculty are welcome to attend – and to bring their lunch!
COMP LIT
15 Seminary Place (West)
Room #4052
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(732) 932-7606
http://complit.rutgers.edu/
Next Brown Bag Lunch with Prof. Preetha Mani on Monday, April 8, 2019
Comp Lit, U. Erfurt (Germany): on Landscape & German Film
- Speaker: Prof. Nils Plath
- Event Type: Faculty Lecture Series
- Speaker University: Rutgers University
- Event Date: 2017-09-26
- Event Location: 15 Seminary Place (West)
The Rutgers Program in Comparative Literature
Tuesday Sept 26, 2017
12:00 – 1:30pm
Prof. Plath will begin his 40-minute talk shortly after Noon.
All students and faculty are welcome to attend – and to bring their lunch!
BROWN BAG LUNCH WITH PROF. NILS PLATH
COMP LIT, U. ERFURT (GERMANY):
ON LANDSCAPE & GERMAN FILM
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
15 Seminary Place (West)
Room #4052
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(732) 932-7606
http://complit.rutgers.edu/
Next Brown Bag Lunch TBA