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清华大学外文系系列学术演讲之一
演讲题目(I)：“世界主义”术语的历史演变
演讲人：提摩西·布来南
（Timothy Brennan）
美国明尼苏达大学比较文学与文化研究系教授
演讲题目(II)：走向第三世界的先锋派
演讲人：凯雅·冈古利
（Keya Ganguly）
美国明尼苏达大学比较文学与文化研究系教授
时间：2011年10月10日（星期一）下午2：00－5：00
地点：文南楼116会议室
清华大学外国语言文学系
清华大学比较文学与文化研究中心
欢迎感兴趣的教师和研究生、本科生踊跃参加！
演讲者简介
Timothy Brennan is Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author most recently of Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz (Verso, 2008), and edited, introduced, and co-translated the first English edition of Alejo Carpentier’s classic study, Music in Cuba (U of Minnesota P, 2001). His other recent books include Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right (Columbia UP, 2006), Empire in Different Colors (Revolver, 2007) and At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now (Harvard UP, 1997). In 1989, he received an award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals for his special issue of Modern Fiction Studies titled “Narratives of Colonial Resistance” (1989). Professor Brennan is a recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the McKnight foundation, and has taught at Cornell University, the University of Michigan, and the Humboldt University (Berlin). He was Director of the Humanities Institute between 2002 and 2004, has chaired the Sociological Approaches to Literature Division of the Modern Language Association (MLA), editing a book series “Cultural Margins” at Cambridge University Press between 1997-2003. Since 2000, Professor Brennan has been the featured speaker at over sixty universities and cultural institutions throughout the world. His essays have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Polish, Turkish, French, Slovenian, Hungarian, and Japanese, and his writing has appeared in a variety of publications including The Nation, The Times Literary Supplement, The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Studies, Critical Inquiry, The South Atlantic Quarterly, Public Culture, The Chronicle of Higher Education and the London Review of Books.
Professor Keya Ganguly works in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota. Her specialties include South Asian film and culture, Frankfurt school, sociology of culture, Marxism, film and visual studies, postcolonial theory and criticism. Her most recent publications include: Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray (University of California Press, 2010) and States of Exception: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity (University of Minnesota Press, 2001).
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