The Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley

• Job Talk
  
• Tuesday, February 7
• Noon, Comparative Literature Library, 4337 Dwinelle Hall

• David Simon
• PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature
• UC Berkeley
• “Something by Way of Method”: Robert Boyle’s Occasional Reflections (1665) and the Prehistory of Objectivity

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• Job Talk
  
• Wednesday, February 8
• Noon, Comparative Literature Library, 4337 Dwinelle Hall

• Toby Warner
• PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature
• UC Berkeley
• Title: TBA

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Thursday, February 9
5 pm, 370 Dwinelle Hall

• Adrian Johns
• Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History at the University of Chicago
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• Job Talk
  
• Wednesday, February 15
• Noon, Comparative Literature Library, 4337 Dwinelle Hall

• Munia Bhaumik
• PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature
• UC Berkeley
• Title: TBA

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• Wednesday  February 15
• 5:00pm-7:00pm, 201 Moses
• Seminar with Margreta de Grazia
• “King Lear in BC Albion.”
• The paper will be pre-circulated and available for download here the week prior to the seminar. Please check back
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• Thursday, February 16
• 5 pm, 300 Wheeler Hall
  
• Margreta De Grazia
• Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
• “Re-enchanting the English Reformation (and Shakespeare)”
• The event is sponsored by the Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair in English

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Colloquia on Arabic Literatures and Cultures

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Monday, February 6
5 pm, 160 Dwinelle Hall

• Mona El-Sherif
• Assistant Professor of Arabic, Dept of Francophone and Mediterranean Studies
• Colorado College

“The Figure of the Shaykh in Nineteenth-Century Paris and the Culture of Flânerie: Rethinking the Eurocentricity of the Canon of Urban Literature”

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Monday, February 13
5 pm, 370 Dwinelle

• Khalid Hadeed
• Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature
• Cornell University

” Seducing Kawabata: Sectarianism and Secularism via Male Homosocial Desire”

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Monday, February 27
4 pm, 160 Dwinelle Hall

• Elliott Colla
• Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies
• Georgetown University

“The People Want? The Poetics of Revolution in Egypt”

It’s never too early to look forward to summer. Whether you want to re-live the 90’s, explore the line between madness and creativity, conjure up  ghosts in Gothic fiction or learn the art of a really good pun, you’ll find that and more this summer in Comparative Literature. The Summer 2012 Schedule of Classes is now available for review.  Summer Telebears for continuing Berkeley students will start on February 6th.

The Department of Comparative Literature is pleased to host many exciting lectures and seminars throughout the year. Information about upcoming events can be found here