Center for Global Studies

Center for Global Studies presents faculty, students with awards

5/7/19

The Center for Global Studies recently awarded more than $131,000 to faculty and students whose work advances research, studies and projects in global studies.

Comparative Literature Luncheon to feature talk by Dartmouth's Tarek El-Ariss

4/10/19

Tarek El-Ariss, associate professor and chair of Middle Eastern studies at Dartmouth College, will present “Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age” at 12:15 p.m. April 15 in 102 Kern Building on Penn State’s University Park campus.

Comparative Literature Luncheon series features talk by Roopika Risam

4/2/19

Roopika Risam, assistant professor of English and English Education and coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Digital Studies at Salem State University, will present “Insurgents of Academe: Historicizing Public Humanities in the African Dispora," at 12:15 p.m. April 8, in Room 102 of the Kern Building.

Comparative Literature Luncheon lecture series presents David Fieni

3/26/19

David Fieni, assistant professor of French at the State University of New York, Oneonta, will present “Dreyfus in Algeria," at 12:15 p.m. on April 1 in 102 Kern Building at University Park, as part of the Comparative Literature Luncheon lecture series.

Comparative Literature Luncheon to feature talk by McGill's Monica Popescu

3/20/19

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.

Penn State's Eburne to present at March 18 Comparative Literature Luncheon

3/13/19

Jonathan Eburne, associate professor of comparative literature, English, and French and Francophone studies at Penn State, will present “Book Talk: Outsider Theory” at 12:15 p.m. on Monday, March 18, in 102 Kern Building at University Park.

Comparative Literature Luncheon lecture presents Marilia Librandi on March 11

3/11/19

Marília Librandi, visiting assistant professor of Brazilian studies at Princeton University, will present “Writing by Ear: The Aural Novel in Brazil” at 12:15 p.m. March 11 in Room 102 of the Kern Building.

Film screening of 'Human Flow' to examine human migration March 26

2/21/19

The Center for Global Studies will present a film screening of "Human Flow" at 4 p.m. on March 26 in Lewis Katz Auditorium at University Park. The film gives a powerful visual expression to massive human migration. Captured over the course of an eventful year in 23 countries, the film follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretches across the globe.

Johns Hopkins' Jackson to present at Feb. 11 Comparative Literature Luncheon

2/6/19

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.

Harvard's Lienau to present at Feb. 4 Comparative Literature Luncheon

1/30/19

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.

More than a movie: Dialogue about gender inequality in 'Honor Diaries'

1/25/19

The Center for Global Studies will present a film screening of "Honor Diaries" at 7 p.m. on Feb. 13 in the Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library, on the University Park campus of Penn State followed by a panel discussion.

Comparative Literature Luncheon to feature lecture by Ohio State's Ethan Knapp

1/22/19

Ethan Knapp, associate professor in the Department of English at Ohio State, will present “Revisiting the Rising of 1381: Allegory and Politics in the Late 14th Century” at 12:15 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 28, in 102 Kern Building on Penn State’s University Park campus.

Popovic to present 'Laughtivism: The Power of Humor in Nonviolent Struggle'

1/22/19

The Center for Global Studies at Penn State will host Srdja Popovic, activist, global thinker, and founder and executive director of the Center for Applied Nonviolent Actions and Strategies, on Feb. 26 at University Park. Popovic will deliver a lecture titled “Laughtivism: The Power of Humor in Nonviolent Struggle” at 4:30 p.m. in the Lewis Katz Auditorium.