CASI Presents “Literature Week”

November 24, 2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Literature Week is a part of CASI’s Workshop on Literature and History. Supported by a generous contribution from Matthew Nimetz, the aim of the workshop is to create a community of junior scholars and advanced graduate students committed to studying literature and to applying literary tools and methodologies to the study of literary art in the Central Asian past.

 

November 28, 12:10, Room 234

Imagined Geographies? Contemporary Art of Central Asia, Diana Kudaibergenova, University of Lund

November 29, 12:10, Room 306

Nasriddin in Bukhara and Berlin: Humor, Empire, and the Soviet Union at War, Charles Shaw, Central European University

November 29, 17:00, Room 220

An Ottoman Poet’s Struggle between Nationalism and Communism: Nazim Hikmet and Modernity, Prof. Ali İğmen, California State University

December 4, 12:00, Room T 16

Russophone Literature: Transnational Writing in the "Wide Russian World", Naomi Caffee, University of Arizona

December 4, 16:00, Room 410

A Moveable Feast? The Horse as Companion and as Food in Central Asian Oral Literature, Gabriel McGuire, Nazarbayev University

December 5, 12:00, Room T 16

The Insomniac Bolshevik and the Sleeping Native: Post-coloniality in post-socialist literature of Russia and Uzbekistan, Christopher Fort, University of Michigan

 

Abstracts and bios of speakers will be posted next week. Please follow our announcements.

 

 

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