Emory Comparative Literature Department

All are welcome to join Comp Lit's first Spring 2020 event! Bring friends, the more the merrier! :D

Professor Aïcha Liviana Messina (Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile) will be giving a talk today, Monday December 9 at 5:00pm in Bowden Hall 216 (Flyer attached). Her talk, titled "Writing Before the Violence of The Law: Blanchot vis-à-vis Agamben and Derrida," explores the relationship between the Law and writing through a confrontation of Maurice Blanchot’s thought with Giorgio Agamben's and Jacques Derrida’s analyses of the Law and its structural violence. By in...terrogating Agamben's claim that life can deactivate the violence of the Law, and highlighting how Blanchot challenges Derrida’s "double-bind" approach to legal violence, Professor Messina contends that while Blanchot rejects the idea of an overcoming of legal violence, his notion of writing as "passivity" allows us to conceive of the Law as experiencing its own limits by playing its own game. To this end, she shows how the "passivity" that Blanchot identifies in writing entails a certain fight" (combat) that takes place, not against, but within the Law. Aïcha Liviana Messina is Professor of Philosophy at Universidad Diego Portales (Santiago, Chile). She studied literature and philosophy in Paris and in Strasbourg. Situated at the intersection of contemporary French thought, Jewish studies, literary theory, and political philosophy, her work focuses on the relationship between language and violence, and on the political implications of critique. She has written on the experience of modeling in art in Poser me va si bien (POL, 2005); and on the question of love in Marx’s early writings in her book-length essay Amour/Argent. Le livre blanc des manuscrits de 1844 (Le portique/La phocide, 2009). She has recently published a monograph on Emmanuel Levinas’s political thought, L’anarchie de la paix. Levinas et la philosophie politique (CNRS, 2018). Her most recent book, Feminismo y revolución. Crónica de una inquietud, seguido por: Fragmentos de una paz insólita. Santiago, Octubre 2019, analyses the feminist movement that took place in Chile in 2018 and will be published by Metales Pesados (Santiago de Chile) in 2020. All welcome!

Writing papers? Need help with revisions? Or just want to pop in for a quick grub break on Reading Day? Then mark your calendars to join us for a study break on Wed. Dec. 11th @ 3PM! Food, snacks, & refreshments will be provided, all are welcome to join!

Animal Studies Society workshop TODAY @ 4:30pm in Callaway Center C-202! Caroline Warren will be presenting her talk, "The Cost of Caring? Manufacturing Affection and Compliance in the Animal Research Lab." See attached poster for more details.

The eminent Swiss philosopher Serge Margel will be giving a lecture on Wednesday November 13 at 4:30 in White Hall 110. His title: Hebrew Language, Sacred Language: Scholem, Rosenzweig, Derrida. (The lecture will be in French, but an English translation will be made available.) All welcome: a reception will follow. Professor Margel will also conduct a seminar in French on Thursday November 14 on Marguerite Duras’s film India Song. More details to follow soon.

Dear all: We would like to cordially invite you to the inaugural Round Table Discussion event hosted by the Luce Seminar Global Communities of Practice (GCoP) program. This event is titled Objects, Environments, Communities: Working through Fieldwork. The event is scheduled to be held on Wednesday, October 23 from 5:00 6:30 pm at White Hall 111. Our Round Table speakers will include Maria Paz Almenara (New York University), Daniela Hernandez (Emory University, Spanish &... Portuguese), Federica Signorini (Emory University, Comparative Literature), Shreyas Sreenath (Emory University, Anthropology). The panelists will share their findings from their summer field projects in Peru, Mexico (Daniela and Federica), and India respectively. Prof. Vialla Hartfield-Mendez (Spanish & Portuguese) will moderate the session. Prof. David Nugent (Anthropology) will deliver the inaugural note. After the event, we will continue discussions over snacks and drinks at the event venue. We look forward to seeing you then!

Dear all, We invite you to our Open House event on Tuesday, Oct. 29th from 4:30-6PM! You'll get a chance to meet our new DUS, Prof. Angelika Bammer, as well as our new Graduate Student Mentors, Carolina Iribarren & Judith Levy! Free food catered by Bhojanic, pastries & refreshments will be provided, so feel free to swing by & bring a friend!... All are welcome to join! :D

Our very own CPLT PhD 5th Year Grad Student, Violeta Ruiz Espigares, will be presenting Crypto-Languages to Remember Impossible Places for the Europe & Beyond Fall 2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars with the FCHI on Dec. 2nd! Please find details attached. :D

Dear all, Please join us for the Animal Studies Society's first workshop this semester on Monday, Oct. 7, 2:30-4:00pm in Callaway Center S-319. Jonathan Crane will be presenting a talk, "Trysts in the Garden: Companionship and the Nachash in Eden." Please see attached poster for details. Yours,... Prof Sean Meighoo

"Recent alum is Emory's first winner of prestigious scholarship to study for two years in France" Jacob Kasel will pursue a master's degree in France as the first Emory winner of the Michel David-Weill Scholarship, awarded to a single student each year from applicants from 30 top U.S. institutions. Check out this article about our brilliant C/O 2018 Comparative Literature Alumni, Jacob Kasel! :D... http://news.emory.edu//er_kasel_michel_david_/campus.html