Djelal Kadir

Djelal Kadir is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature at Penn State University. He is the author of the recently published Memos from the Besieged City: Lifelines for Cultural Sustainability (2010), as well as of The Other Writing. Postcolonial Essays in Latin America’s Writing Culture (1993) and Columbus and the Ends of the Earth. Europe’s Prophetic Rhetoric As Conquering Ideology (1992), to name only a few titles of a long list of publications. He is currently co-editing, with David Damrosch and Theo D’Haen, the Routledge Companion to World Literature (forthcoming). In a long-standing commitment to literary theory, Prof. Kadir’s work revolves around world literature, comparative literature and globalization, as well as Latin American writing and postcolonial literature. In his most recent book, he argues for the institutional and cultural relevance of literary study through foundational figures. By looking at world historical crossroads, Prof. Kadir examines the importance and influence of unconventional writing on literacy, culture and intellectual commitment.

Workshop with Professor Kadir

Prof. Djelal Kadir
Prof. Dr. Thomas Claviez, University of Bern, Moderator

Registration is required for the Distinguished Lectures Series Workshop featuring the invited speaker (for contact details, please see below). After a short introduction round of the participants, the workshop is structured in three parts. Part 1 allows participants to ask questions related to the speaker’s lecture. Part 2 serves discussing a text by the invited speaker that participants receive as preparatory reading to the workshop. Part 3 offers the opportunity to bring up topics of discussion related to one’s own research or interest.

Date: November 22nd, 2011
Time: 9:30 – 12:15
Place: University of Bern, Haus der Universtiät, Schlösslistrasse 5

Organization:

Prof. Dr. Thomas Claviez, thomas.claviez@ens.unibe.ch
For all organizational details, please contact dls@wbkolleg.unibe.ch

Registration Workshop:                       

dls@wbkolleg.unibe.ch