Discontinuous Compositions: Reading Fragments

CTL Seminar Room, Gilman 208

2024 Graduate Symposium at Department of Comparative Thought and Literature Johns Hopkins University Location: Gilman 208 Friday, April 5 10:00am Panel 1: Fragmentary Poetics Between Philosophy and Literature Amy Chan (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) “Fragmentary Form and Allusion: Tolson’s Skeptic Poetics” Emma Duvall (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) […]

Jocelyn Benoist, “How Fiction Can Be Made True”

Gilman 208

Jocelyn Benoist, Professor of the Philosophy of Knowledge and Contemporary Philosophy, University Paris 1 Sorbonne "How Fiction Can Be Made True" Philosophy has always been suspicious of fiction. In the philosophical tradition, fiction has often been equated with a lie, or at least a form of false speech. This is a consequence of philosophers' fictional […]

Workshop: “Description: The Implicit Normativity in Language and Norms of Life”

Commons East Room 304 3301 N Charles St, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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 […]

Workshop: “Description: The Implicit Normativity in Language and Norms of Life”

Commons East Room 304 3301 N Charles St, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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 […]

CTL Seminar: Fall Convocation

Gilman 208

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

CTL Seminar: Mengqi (Mercy) An

Gilman 208

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

CTL Seminar: Bill Egginton

Working 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.

CTL Seminar: Dipesh Chakrabarty, “Wars on a Warming Planet”

Gilman 130-D

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.

CTL Seminar: Nana Sharikadze

Gilman 208

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.