Join us for a conversation with Brazilian writer José Falero as part of the Contemporary Brazilian Literature Speaker Series. The event will be on Zoom.
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Spoken-word artist, musician, and filmmaker Alain Kassanda was born in Democratic Republic of Congo and has lived in France since the age of 11. Trouble Sleep, its title drawn from the great Fela Kuti, follows two young taxi drivers as they navigate the crowded streets of Ibadan, Nigeria. An innovative city symphony that reveals the rules governing seeming chaos, Kassanda’s new documentary has been featured at Visions du Réel, DOK Leipzig…
Contemporary Brazilian Literature Speaker Series with Brazilian writer and editor Karine Bassi.
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Nathan Brown, Associate Professor of French and Canada Research Chair in Poetics of Concordia University, Montreal will give a guest lecture on Baudelaire.
In one of the key sonnets of Les Fleurs du mal, "Obsession," Baudelaire's speaker declares a resolute orientation toward the void:
How you would please me, o night! without these stars
Whose light speaks a language we know!
For I seek the void, and the black, and the bare! …
Brazilian indigenous writer Márcia Kambeba will give a lecture on "Ancestralidade, cultura e identidade: um mergulho no Rio Amazonas". Her talk will be on Zoom. Please, register here.
Satiricón moralizado: Petronio en la obra de Juan de Espinosa Medrano (¿1629?-1688).
Professor Rodríguez Garrido is a noted scholar of the literature of colonial Perú. He will offer new critical perspectives for examining how Juan de Espinosa Medrano (circa 1629 - 1688) adapted classic works. Espinosa Medrano rendered the Baroque poetics of Luis de Góngora into a distinctly American literary style and also adapted European…
Michelle Armstrong-Partida, Associate Professor of History, Emory University
Sponsored by the Early Modern Studies Research Cluster of the Mellon Global Georgia Project and the Willson Center for Humanities & Arts
[Image: Miniature from the illuminated manuscripts of the treatise by Giovanni Boccaccio, “The famous women”. MS Fr. 598, f. 70v, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. France, 15th century.]
Wise's lecture will be hosted by the Early Modern Studies Research Group, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant-funded research project in the Global Georgia Initiative of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Matching funds are provided by Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and the departments of English, History, Romance Languages, and Theatre and Film Studies.
Lecture by Dr. Adele Nelson, Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Texas at Austin.
The Department of Romance Languages, the Institute for African American Studies, and The Franklin College Visiting Scholar Program invites you to the Zoom lecture by
Brent Hayes Edwards: “Black Radicalism and the Archive: Inventories of Fire”
Wednesday, March 3, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. (on Zoom)
Professor Edwards’ innovative scholarship links together African diasporic histories and literary traditions, drawing on African…