Events

Past Events:

On Friday, January 13, Srinivas Aravamudan, Director of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University, visited MSU as part of The Global Literary and Cultural Studies Research Cluster Distinguished Speaker Series. In his talk entitled "The Bagavadgita and the Bomb," Professor Aravamudan considered the significance of the uses of the Bagavadgita, by J. Robert Oppenheimer, organizing intelligence behind the Manhattan Project that produced the atom bomb, on the one hand, and by various apostles of non-violence, from Thoreau to Gandhi, on the other. Professor Aravamudan's incisive and influential reassessments of language and cultural legibility in his work on GuruEnglish, and his provocative engagement, through Vico, with sovereignty and anachronism, place him at the very forefront of intellectual engagements with the questions most central to our understanding of the impact of global interactions across time.

New Faculty Brown Bag Series

GLCS will present an informal series of "brown bag" gatherings to introduce the work of new faculty in the university's four language and literature departments to their campus colleagues. This is an opportunity to meet and engage with new scholars, to welcome them to the MSU community, and to make connections with colleagues from a range of fields and interests.

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