Department of Comparative Thought and Literature

This interdisciplinary workshop takes description as a route to explore the ways in which our norms are embedded within and throughout language rather than reflecting external rules. While hard oppositions have been made between description and narration, pictorial and verbal, sound and sense, this workshop is attempting to create a vocabulary of description at different […]

This interdisciplinary workshop takes description as a route to explore the ways in which our norms are embedded within and throughout language rather than reflecting external rules. While hard oppositions have been made between description and narration, pictorial and verbal, sound and sense, this workshop is attempting to create a vocabulary of description at different […]

Christiane Voss, CTL Associate and Professor of Audiovisual Media/Media Philosophy, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

The year-long CTL Seminar features research presentations from faculty, students and invited speakers.

Title: "Literature and Ecologies of Manchuria" The year-long CTL Seminar features research presentations from faculty, students and invited speakers.

Title: "Early Modern Artificial Intelligence" This talk is part of the year-long CTL Seminar, which features research presentations from faculty, students and invited speakers.

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, University of Chicago

Title: "Wars on a Warming Planet" Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, University of Chicago This talk is part of the year-long CTL Seminar, which features research presentations from faculty, students and invited speakers.

Title: "Cultural resistance during a time of crisis: Georgia, 2024" This talk is part of the year-long CTL Seminar, which features research presentations from faculty, students, and invited speakers.

Frances Ferguson, Mabel Greene Myers Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, University of Chicago "Meritocracy and Education: What the Nineteenth Century Might Tell the Twenty-first"

Title: "Exit Talking: Jeremy Bentham on His Auto-Icon" This talk is part of the year-long CTL Seminar, which features research presentations from faculty, students, and invited speakers.

Title: "Conversations on Time, Culture and Porous Becomings" Andreas Bandak, Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen Daniel Knight, Reader in the Department of Social Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies at the University of St Andrews This talk is part of the year-long CTL […]