2022-2023

The Department is committed to hosting relevant, boundary-breaking, and thought-provoking events. Due to the university's COVID-19 visitor policy, unless otherwise noted, only NYU students, faculty, and administrators will be permitted to attend in-person events at 19 University Place. Please check individual event pages for more information about attending as a visitor.

Thursday, Sep 8 2022
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The Comp Lit Proseminar Syllabus: Workshopping the Problem
In-Person Event
4:00pm - 6:30pm
Great Room, 19 University Place
Thursday, Sep 29 2022
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Surya Parekh: Phillis Wheatley Pursues Poetic Freedom
Online Event
5:00pm - 7:00pm
On Zoom
Tuesday, Oct 11 2022
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Madina Thiam - African History and the Making of a Classic: Yambo Ouologuem's 'Duty of Violence'
In-Person Event
11:00am - 1:00pm
Room 222, 19 University Place
Friday, Oct 14 2022
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Fugitive Proust
Online Event
In-Person Event
9:30am - 4:30pm
La Maison Française
16 Washington Mews
Saturday, Oct 15 2022
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Fugitive Proust
Online Event
In-Person Event
9:30am - 4:30pm
La Maison Française
16 Washington Mews
Thursday, Oct 27 2022
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Nasrin Olla - Alienation: Fanon and Beauvoir
In-Person Event
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Great Room
19 University Place
Wednesday, Nov 2 2022
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Anahid Nersessian: Keats & Calamity
Online Event
In-Person Event
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Great Room
19 University Place
Thursday, Nov 3 2022
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Slavoj Žižek: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
In-Person Event
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Meyer Hall, Room 121
4 Washington Place
Tuesday, Nov 8 2022
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Price of Entry I: Theory in Debt
In-Person Event
6:00pm - 8:00pm
The Great Room
19 University Place
Tuesday, Nov 15 2022
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Publishing in the South in an Era of New Technologies: A Roundtable
In-Person Event
5:00pm - 7:00pm
English Department Event Space
244 Greene Street
Wednesday, Nov 16 2022
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CALAMEGS Reading Group Meeting: Yambo Ouologuem
Online Event
In-Person Event
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Room 305
19 University Place
Thursday, Nov 17 2022
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Ming Xie - What Does the Comparative Do for Theory?
In-Person Event
2:00pm - 4:45pm
Room 229
19 University Place
Friday, Nov 18 2022
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Ming Xie - Dialogue & Dialectic: A Recursive Horizon
In-Person Event
3:00pm - 5:00pm
The Great Room
19 University Place
Tuesday, Nov 29 2022
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Point of Entry II: The Curator as Translator
In-Person Event
6:00pm - 8:00pm
The Great Room
19 University Place
Friday, Dec 2 2022
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Make A Meme for Comp Lit
In-Person Event
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Room 222
19 University Place
Thursday, Feb 9 2023
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Susannah Gottlieb: Auden and the Muse of History
In-Person Event
6:30pm
Room 222
19 University Place, New York, NY 10003
Thursday, Feb 16 2023
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Translation Studies Minor Launch: Translation Slam
Online Event
In-Person Event
12:00pm - 2:00pm
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
53 Washington Square S, New York, NY 10012
Thursday, Feb 23 2023
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Ancient Sex Ancient Gender: A Comparative Investigation
Online Event
In-Person Event
5:30pm - 7:30pm
The Great Room
19 University Place
Friday, Feb 24 2023
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Comparative Literature Department Spotlight
Online Event
In-Person Event
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Room 222
19 University Place
Thursday, Mar 2 2023
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Archival Twists Turns and New Directions
Online Event
In-Person Event
10:00am - 7:00pm
The Jordan Center and Room 222
19 University Place
Friday, Mar 3 2023
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Xu Bing on Art: Lectures Series with Xudong Zhang: Lecture 2
Online Event
In-Person Event
5:30pm - 7:30pm
Room 275
The Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life
Wednesday, Mar 8 2023
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Xu Bing on Art: Lectures Series with Xudong Zhang: Lecture 3
Online Event
In-Person Event
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Ground Floor
NYU Bronfman Centre
Thursday, Apr 13 2023
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Michael Sawyer: Ishmael, Jack-the-Bear, and Beloved at the Threshold of the Door of 'No' Return
In-Person Event
5:00pm
The Great Room & Room 222
19 University Place
Friday, Apr 14 2023
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Computer Love
In-Person Event
5:00pm
Room 122, Meyer Hall
4 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003
Thursday, Apr 20 2023
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Underwriting Modernism: Insurance, Risk Management, Animal Spirits
In-Person Event
6:00pm
Event space
244 Greene Street, New York, NY 10003
Friday, Apr 21 2023
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The Clinical Complex: Reflections on Sick Buildings and the Architectures of Illness 1880/2020
In-Person Event
5:00pm
Deutsches Haus at NYU
42 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003
Wednesday, Apr 26 2023
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Modernism at the Beach: A Book Talk with Author Hannah Freed-Thall
In-Person Event
5:00pm
NYU Center for the Humanities
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor