The Transregional Politics of Literary Language: Comparative Work Across African and Asian Contexts

February 21, 2019|5:00pm - 7:00pm

Panelist: Fallou Ngom

Professor of Anthropology, Boston University

Director, African Studies Center, Boston University

Panelist: Shaden M Tageldin

Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota

Director, African Studies Initiative, University of Minnesota

Panelist: Henk Maier

Panelist: Nergis Ertürk

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University

Chair: Annette Damayanti Lienau

Assistant Professor
Department of Comparative Literature
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Location: S250, Porté Room, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA

Sponsor: Harvard University Asia Center

Co-sponsors: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Comparative Literature

“At the Hinge of Africa and Asia: Transregional Reinventions of World and Comparative Literature.” Professor Shaden Tageldin

“Suat Dervis, the Language of Turkish Communism, and the Socialist Realist Novel.” Professor Nergis Ertürk

“Long Durée and Local Innovations in West African Ajami Traditions.” Dr. Fallou Ngom

“Malay as a Literary/Writing Language in the Indian Ocean.” Professor Henk Maier