Global Georgia Initiative:  Qiu Xiaolong - Reading and Conversation:  "A Chinese Cop in the Global Age" - Betty Jean Craige Lecutre in Comparative Literature

Date:  February 8, 2018 at 4:00 pm

Place:  Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries Auditorium, UGA

Contact:  Peter O'Neill at pon@uga.edu

 "Comparison as Relation:  From World History to World Literature" 

Dr. Shu-mei Shih

Date:  Thursday, February 1, 2018

Time:  4:00 pm

Place: Room 213 MLC

Contact: Yuanfei Wang at yuanfeiw@uga.edu

Shu-mei Shih is a professor of comparative literature, Asian languages and cultures, and Asian American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Among other works, her book, Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations Across the Pacific (2007), has been attributed as having inaugurated a new field of study called Sinophone Studies. Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader (2013) is a textbook that she co-edited for the field.

Besides Sinophone studies, her areas of research include comparative modernism, as in the book The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937 (2001); theories of transnationalism, as in her co-edited Minor Transnationalism (2005); critical race studies, as in her guest-edited special issue of PMLA entitled “Comparative Racialization” (2008); critical theory, as in her co-edited Creolization of Theory (2011); Taiwan studies, as in her guest-edited special issue of Postcolonial Studies entitled “Globalization and Taiwan’s (In)significance” and the co-edited volume Comparatizing Taiwan (2015) and Knowledge Taiwan (2016).

She is currently working on two monographs entitled Empires of the Sinophone and Comparison as Relation, and two co-edited volumes: Keywords of Taiwan Theory and World Studies: Theories and Debates.

The Comparative Literature Department is grateful for the support provided by the Willson Center Distinguished Artist/Lecturer Program for making this lecture possible.

Are you interested in Japanese culture, anime, manga? You are in luck - the Comparative Literatue Department JUST added Japanese 1001 CRN 47011 with Instructor Rebecca Sexton for Spring 2018. It will be offered Mondays and Fridays at 9:05 am and Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:30 am. 

CMLT graduate students presented at SAMLA 89:  HIgh Art/Low Art: Borders and Boundaries in Popular Culture November 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia. 

Victor Pisano visited classes and met with CMLT students at the end of October for several days. Mr. Pisano met indivdually with students who were interested in exploring a career in screenplay writing and the motion picture industry in general.

For more information about Victor Pisano, please click on the following link: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0685415/

An The Sweet, Saltiness of Life 

Directed by Kawase Naomi, one of the leading film makers of today's Japan

The film adaptation of the identically titled Dorian Sukegawa novel by previous Cannes Film Festival award recipient, Kawase Naomi. Kiki Kirin exudes a compelling presence as a coarse sweet red bean paste arisan. Sentaro (Nagase Masatoshi), the manager of a shop selling dorayaki has entrusted the making of the coarse red mean paste to Tokue (Kiki Kirin), who asnwered a help wanted advertisement. The incrediblly delicious flavor boosts the store's business, but an unkind rumor causes Tokue to go away. 

Hosted by the Japanese Language Program, Comparative Literature Department

Open to everyone, the Japanese Language Club provides students a space for conversation practice and cultural events related to the study of Japanese at UGA. For more information, contact Ryutaro Urakawa (ru17068@uga.edu).

To apply or to get more information on the program, which is open to students, professors, and K-12 teachers across the state, click here to visit the Tanzania Study Abroad page or contact Dr. Maganda at magandad@uga.edu.