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"Global Literatures & Global Literacies: Teaching Texts, Old and New" is a symposium to advance thinking about the current and future teaching of literature, as well as a new literature major, at UW. It is also an opportunity for networking and collaboration among faculty members whose teaching emphasizes trans-national, trans-regional, trans-historical, and/or trans-cultural orientations.
Friday, April 30, 2021 | 1:30-4:30pm
"Global Literatures & Global Literacies: Teaching Texts, Old and New" is a symposium to advance thinking about the current and future teaching of literature, as well as a new literature major, at UW. It is also an opportunity for networking and collaboration among faculty members whose teaching emphasizes trans-national, trans-regional, trans-historical, and/or trans-cultural orientations. Organized by Naomi Sokoloff (Professor, Near Eastern Languages & Civilation), Gordana Crnković (Professor, Slavic Languages & Literature), and Gary Handwerk (Professor, Comparative History of Ideas), the symposium is open to all and will be hosted on Zoom.
Registration in advance is required for attendance. A full program will be emailed to registrants in advance of the symposium and will include the Zoom meeting URL along with a Google Drive link to materials related to the panel discussions. If you would like to share this event with your colleagues and/or students, we welcome you to download and distribute the accessible pdf version of the Global Literatures & Global Literacies Flyer, pictured below.
The event is co-sponsored by:
Asian Languages & Literature, Cinema & Media Studies, Classics, Comparative History of Ideas, English, French & Italian Studies, Germanics, Near Eastern Languages & Civilization, Scandinavian Studies, Slavic Languages & Literatures, Spanish & Portuguese Studies
Symposium Overview:
1:30 pm Opening Remarks
Brian Reed (Divisional Dean for the Humanities)
1:45 pm Session I – Cross-Cultural Themes in Literature
Ellwood Wiggins (Germanics): “Sympathy for the Devil”
Olga Levaniouk (Classics), Heidi Pauwels (Asian L&L): “Epic Emotions from Ancient Greece to Contemporary India”
Richard Block (Germanics): “Sibling Rivalries”
2:15 pm Session II – Literature Across Time and Space
Bich-Ngoc Turner (Asian L&L): “Twentieth Century Vietnamese Literature”
Eduardo Viana da Silva (Spanish & Portuguese): “Introduction to Lusophone Literature”
Annegret Oehme (Germanics), Beatrice Arduini (French & Italian): “Global Middle Ages”
Terri DeYoung (NELC): “Canonicity and Arabic Literature”
Galya Diment (Slavic): “Big Books”
2:55 pm Session III – New Pathways in the Humanities
Chad Allen (English): “Always on Native Ground”
Sarah Stroup (Classics): “Introducing Humanities First”
3:20 pm Session IV: Integrative Literary Studies
Jason Groves (Germanics): “Literatures and Cultures of Extinction”
Juliet Shields (English): “Globalization and the Literature of Slavery”
Aria Fani (NELC): “Near Eastern Travel Writing and Translation”
Monika Kaup (English): “Global Detective Fiction”
Selim Kuru (NELC): “Senior Seminars”
3:55pm Session V: The Future of Global Literary Studies
Moderator: Gary Handwerk (CHID)
Respondents: Sasha Senderovich (Slavic and the Jackson School of International Studies), Lauren Poyer (Scandinavian)
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The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education, and employment for individuals with disabilities. Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made by April 20, 2021 to Simpson Center Events, 206-685-5260, scevents@uw.edu.