Almost 80 years to the day since its outbreak, top scholars from around the world will gather at Penn State's University Park campus to explore new ways of thinking about World War II. “World War II and the Middle East,” will take place Sept. 9 and 10 at various locations on campus. All events are free and open to the public.
Monica Popescu, associate professor and William Dawson Scholar of African Literature at McGill University, will present “Mythologies of Realism and Modernism: African Literature and the Cold War” at 12:15 p.m. on Monday, March 25, in 102 Kern Building on Penn State’s University Park campus.
Jeanne-Marie Jackson, assistant professor of world Anglophone literature at Johns Hopkins University, will present “Between a Stone and a Hard Place: Stanlake Samkange's Turn to Philosophy” at 12:15 p.m. on Feb. 11 in 102 Kern Building on Penn State’s University Park campus.
Annette Damayanti Lienau, assistant professor of comparative literature at Harvard University, will present “Muslim ‘Racialization’ and the Conceptual Limits of the Arabophone: Translational Disjunctures and Comparative Horizons across the Global South,” at 12:15 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 4, in 102 Kern Building on Penn State’s University park campus.
Satirist Bassem Youssef, dubbed the “Jon Stewart of Egypt,” will visit University Park in November to speak at two separate events hosted by the Center for Global Studies. Youssef will deliver a lecture titled “The Joke is Mightier Than The Sword” at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 3 at the Nittany Lion Inn. Then, on Saturday, Nov. 4, he, along with the film’s director Sara Taksler, a senior producer of "The Daily Show," will participate in a discussion following the film screening of "Tickling Giants."
The Migration Studies Project announces a distinguished lecture by Ngugi wa Thiong'o on "Language, Literature, and the Globalectic Imagination." The lecture will be held at 5 p.m. on April 20 in 121 Sparks Building. The event is free and open to the public.
