Biennial Graduate Conference

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• Speaker: Prof. Ana María Ochoa, Prof. Karen Redrobe
• Event Type: Biennial Graduate Conference
• Speaker University: Rutgers University
• Event Date: 2023-03-03

Sponsored by the Center for African Studies, the Center for Chinese Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, the Department of American Studies, the Department of German, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures, the Department of Italian, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the School of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Graduate Studies.

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• Speaker: Prof. Byron Santangelo, Prof. Yanoula Athanassakis
• Speaker University: University of Kansas, New York University
• Event Date: 2017-11-20

What is ecocriticism and how does it enable a different imagination of the earth as well as of literature? What are its broad contours? How does it grapple with gender, race and anti-colonial studies? What are its future trajectories?

(followed by a catered lunch)

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• Speaker: Prof. Ania Loomba, Prof. Nelson Maldonado-Torres
• Speaker University: University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University
• Event Date: 2017-10-30

Sponsored by: Comparative Literature, South Asian Studies Program

What are Postcolonial and Decolonial thought? Do they emerge out of a shared anti-colonial struggle, reflect unique valences of an encounter with empire, or constitute wholly unique epistemological orientations? How do they grapple with class, race, caste and gender? What are their respective critiques of the globalized world and its legacies of colonial practice?

Join Ania Loomba and Nelson Maldonado-Torres in conversation.

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• Speaker: Hélène Mouchard-Zay
• Event Date: 2017-11-07

The Department of French,
the Department of Jewish Studies,
the Program in Comparative Literature,
and the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life

present a lecture by Hélène Mouchard-Zay

Hélène Mouchard-Zay is the daughter of Jean Zay (1904–1944), Education Minister in the 1936 Front Populaire government, imprisoned by the Vichy regime in 1940, and murdered by the “Milice” four years later. She has been involved in the establishment of her father’s archives and in the publication of his writings. Hélène Mouchard-Zay is also the president of the CERCIL, the Center for Study and Research on the Internment Camps in Loiret, which she founded in 1991 in Orléans, France. The Center is now complemented by the Memorial to the Internment in Loiret, which opened in 2011. The Memorial includes documentation on the internment of Jews in the region as well as exhibits on daily life during internment. Between 1940 and 1944, more than 16,000 Jews, including about 4,700 children, were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau from Loiret, most of them from the internment camps; this was the largest camp, where French authorities interned about 1,200 Gypsies, including 706 children, between 1941 and 1945.