Comparatorium

The Comparatorium is a series of colloquia that is entirely organized and facilitated by students of Comparative Literature at NYU. Speakers are invited from a range of disciplines, inside and outside the academy, to present work that relates to diverse intellectual interests. Comparatoria are often politically inciting, theoretically engaged, and disruptive of borders in their various guises.

Featured Presenters:

Roni Henig - The Anatomy of National Language: Hebrew Revival and Linguistic Pregnancy in H.N. Bialik

Hannah Kwak - Yi Kwang-su’s Mujŏng: Probing the Possibility of a Non-Teleological Hermeneutics

Juan Manuel Ávila Conejo - Work in Progress

Featured presenters:

Santiago Ospina Celis: A Wound in Space: Landscape and Trauma in Two Poems by Fernando Charry Lara and Arthur Rimbaud

Athanassia Williamson: Towards an Aesthetic Socratism: Benjamin and Nietzsche on the Philosophy of Art

Elizabeth Benninger: Breaking Grounds of Comparison: Hadith 'Isa ibn Hisham in its Contemporary Moment

The Comp Lit Comparatorium along with the Postcolonial, Race, and Diaspora Studies Colloquium and the NYU Department of English present "The Resistant Life of Emotions: Notes on Death, Narration, and Agency" by Udaya Kumar, Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University. 

Wednesday, February 27, 2019, 11am

19 University Place, Great Room, First Floor, New York, NY 10003

Tuhin Bhattacharjee will present on Antigone/Mother: Second Death and the Maternal in Lacan and Cavarero.

Amy Obermeyer will present on Transpacific Feminisms: Publishing the First Wave from the So-Called Periphery.

Anneke Rautenbach will present on A witch's work: Capitalism and Natality in Arendt and Federici.

On Friday, November 30th at 6:00 P.M., the Comparative Literature Graduate Student Organization held a talk by Hannah Freed-Thall titled Ecologies of Close Reading. 
Hannah Freed-Thall is Assistant Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture at NYU. Previously, she was Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University, and she has held postdoctoral fellowships in the Princeton Society of Fellows and the Brown Pembroke Center. Her first book, Spoiled Distinctions: Aesthetics and the Ordinary in French Modernism (NY: Oxford, 2015) was awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies and the Modernist Studies Association Prize for a First Book, and designated a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. She is currently researching a new book project on modernist ecological thought.

Please join the Comparative Literature Graduate Student Organization on Friday, October 26th at 6:00 P.M. for a Comparatorium event with presentations of works in progress by K. Antranik Cassem, Christina Chalmers, and Zach Rivers. A range of urgent questions will be presented and discussed.

K. Antranik Cassem will present Caught Between: Notes Toward an Iraqi Cold-War Literature

Christina Chalmers will present Evacuating the Image; The Evacuated Image

Zach Rivers will present Woven Violences: Imperialism and the Receptions of Greek Antiquity

The event will take place in room 222 of 19 University Place. Refreshments will be provided. Please join us and invite anyone interested for three talks and a discussion that will be engaging and generative. 

Thursday, April 19, 2018, 6:00–7:30 PM

19 University Place, Room 222, New York, NY 10003

Zakir Paul is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at NYU. He is currently completing a book manuscript that examines the role and limits lent to “intelligence” by French writers and thinkers, especially Proust, Valéry, and Bergson.

Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 3:00–4:30 PM

19 University Place, Jordan Center Conference Room, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10003

Ziad Dallal presents Identity and the Contemporary in the Work of Khalīl Al-Khūrī

Michael Krimper presents Sovereignty and Limit-Experience from Bataille to Agamben

Amanda Perry presents A Belated Romance: The Anglophone Caribbean and Cuba in the 1970s

Friday, November 17, 2017. 6:30 PM

19 University Place, Great Room, 1st Floor, New York, NY 10003

Anna Marie Banker presents Feminine Trauma and the Question of its Transformation in David Lynch’s Filmworks

William Clark presents Canguilhem on Practical and Medical Reason

Andrew Ragni presents Finding Mother, on Colonial Racism and Sexuality

Thursday, October 19, 2017, 5 PM

19 University Place, Room 222, New York, NY 10003

Hentyle Yapp is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Public Policy at NYU. He is also an affiliated faculty member on the Disability Council. His research broadly engages the theoretical and methodological implications of queer, feminist, disability, and critical race studies for questions regarding the state.