UC Berkeley Comparative Literature Department

Event today, February 28:

Kenneth Weisinger Memorial Lecture

Carol Jacobs
Birgit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
“Sebald's Excesses: Opening and Closing of The Rings of Saturn”
Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature

5:00 pm, the Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Stephens Hall

Holiday Party today! 5PM in the comp lit library! Get your jingle on!!!

Event today, October 18

David Sedley
Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Haverford College
“Bacon, Montaigne, and the Naturalization of the Essay”
Sponsored by the Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair in English and the Department of French

5:00 pm, Comp Lit Library (4337 Dwinelle)

Event today, April 12:

Jane O. Newman,
Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Irvine, will give the annual Weisinger lecture
Auerbach’s Dante: Poetical Theology and the Politics of World Literature

5:00 pm
Geballe Room, Townsend Center