Furst Forum in Comparative Literature
The Lilian R. Furst Forum in Comparative Literature is a lecture series organized in 2005 as a graduate student initiative, with financial support from the Department of English & Comparative Literature. The Forum features two kinds of speakers:
- professional scholars from a variety of humanistic fields at UNC interested in sharing their research with an interdisciplinary audience.
- advanced graduate students in the Department of English & Comparative Literature wanting to share their work with colleagues and faculty in a professional setting.
The Forum is named in honor of Marcel Battalion Professor of Comparative Literature Lilian R. Furst (retired 2006), whose distinguished scholarship and reputation as a comparatist have brought prestige to the program and to the university. The Forum generally features four speakers every semester (two faculty members, two graduate students).
All lectures take place at 4pm in Donovan Lounge, unless otherwise noted.
Any questions or comments about the Forum can be directed to Tom Spencer at tspencer@email.unc.edu.
Upcoming Furst Forum Lectures:
April, 2008
Kevin Eubanks (Comparative Literature)
"Authenticity and the Jargon of History in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus"
TIME CHANGE: 4:30pm
Previous Furst Forum Lectures:
March 20, 2008
Dr. Hassan Melehy (Asst. Prof. of French)
"Shakespeare's Sonnets and Time"
February 8, 2008
Dr. Inger Brodey (Asst. Prof. of Comparative Literature, Adjunct Asst. Prof. Asian Studies)
"Entertaining Grief in the Culture of Sensibility"
January 25, 2008
Thomas Spencer (Comparative Literature)
"Hölderlin's Theological Word"
November 26, 2007
Will Nolan (Comparative Literature)
"Eadweard Muybridge: The Zoological Space and the Emergence of Cinema"
November 12, 2007
Kinitra Brooks (Comparative Literature)
"The Transcendental Black Maternal in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata"
October 8, 2007
Dr. John McGowan (UNC Institute of Humanities, Prof. of English & Comparative Literature)
"Liberalism as Secular Comedy"
August 30, 2007
Kara Getrost (Comparative Literature)
"From Innocent Play to Imperial Survey: Forming Adolescence through British and German Adventure Novels of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1870-1905"
April 10, 2007
Dr. Li-ling Hsiao (Asst. Prof. of Asian Studies)
"The World on Puppet Strings: Embedded Realities in Chinese Culture"
March 5, 2007
Dr. Michael Silk (Prof. of Classics and Comparative Literature, King's College London)
"Hughes, Plath and Aeschylus: Allusion and Poetic Language"
March 2,2007
Dr. Michael Silk (Prof. of Classics and Comparative Literature, King's College London)
"The Invention of Greek: Poets, Macedonians and Others"
November 16, 2006
Sean Knierim (Comparative Literature)
"Responding to the Mexico City Earthquake of 1985: Through the Words of cronistas, through the Loans of the World Bank"
October 27, 2006
Dr. Nadia Yaqub (Prof. of Asian Studies)
"The Palestinian Cinematic Wedding"
October 6, 2006
Dr. Maria DeGuzman (Director of Latina/o Studies; Prof. of English)
"Afro-Latino Critique of Enwhitened Idealism: Miguel Algarn's 'Nuyorican Angels' of Night"
September 7, 2006
Carrie Matthews (Comparative Literature)
"Anarchist Modernism in Paris: Prose Poems and Innovations of Genre in the Work of Charles Baudelaire and Gertrude Stein"
March 3, 2006
Dr. Brooke Holmes (Prof. of Classical Studies)
"Antigone in the Future Perfect (Oedipus at Colonus and After)"
April 7, 2006
Eileen Anderson (Comparative Literature)
"Resisting Anglicization: Strategies of Identity Formation in Irish and Puerto Rican Communities Within the United States"
February 2, 2006
Dr. Gregory Flaxman (Asst. Prof. of English)
"The Philosophy of Fiction, the Fiction of Philosophy: Gilles Deleuze and the Politics of Style"
November 15, 2005
Dr. Eric Downing (Prof. of Comparative Literature: Adjunct Prof. of Classical Studies)
"Benjamin's Eidols: Ancient Atomism and Early Photographic Theory in Berlin Chronicle"