Department of Comparative Thought and Literature

Julietta Singh Professor of English and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, University of Richmond "Against Home in the Settler Colony" What does “home” mean in the settler colony, and how does that term come to resound differently for and across communities? How might our homes—the places we grew up and the places we now inhabit—become […]

Maia Sigua Associate Professor, V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire Nana Sharikadze Associate Professor, V. Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire "Crossroads and Crisis in Georgian Culture: Decolonization and Resurgent Sovietism" Prof. Sigua will discuss the formation (and deformation) of collective and cultural memory in the Soviet era, using the example of Georgian opera theatre, and how some […]