Literary Cultures in Conversation is a series of lectures, workshops and colloquia that continue the ICLS tradition of wide-ranging comparativism. It brings together faculty and students from ICLS, from other Columbia/Barnard programs, and from beyond to discuss recent work in literary studies. Building bridges across periods, regions and languages, each event involves scholars that explore similar questions in different historical and cultural contexts. In doing so the aim is to disrupt oppositions between premodern/modern, East/West/North/South, high/low, and so on, and to attend to the critical and imaginative potentials of cultural forms in and across context/s.
There will be a launch event on April 4 featuring a conversation about libraries, readers, and the politics of collection among Courtney Chartier (Columbia, RBML), Seth Kimmel (Columbia, LAIC), and Andrew Stauffer (UVA, English).
Undergraduate and graduate students in ICLS are invited to contribute to the curation and organization of this new program. If you are interested in joining the organizing committee of ICLS Literary Cultures in Conversation, please indicate here.