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Interdisciplinary Brown Bag Lunch Series- Humanity at the Center of Everything: A Brief Genealogy of Western Anthropocentrism
Please join us for our next brown bag talk with Prof. Renan Larue, which will take place on Wednesday March 4th, from 12 noon to 1:30pm, in 6206C Phelps Hall. Lunch will be provided. (Please RSVP here to indicate your lunch preferences).
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Interdisciplinary Brown Bag Lunch Series- Untimeliness, Emergency, Emergence
Nietzsche grounds his critique of the “consuming fever of history” upon the "untimely" character of Classical philology. The “untimely,” says Nietzsche, is what acts “counter to our time” and “on our time and, let us hope, for the benefit of a time to come.” In Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event), Martin Heidegger describes “the lack of a sense of emergency [Notlosigkeit] as the greatest emergency," pointing not to a call for immediate action, but instead, to a certain slowness of thinking.
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Interdisciplinary Brown Bag Lunch Series - Rebuilding St. Paul's Outside the Walls: Rome, Fire, Money, and the Catholic Church
In July 1823, the Early Christian basilica of St. Paul's Outside the Walls in Rome, one of the most important churches in the Christian world, was destroyed by fire. A fierce debate about what to do with the ruins erupted, leading to a wholly unprecedented papal decision: the ruined basilica was to be reconstructed in pristinum, that is, exactly as it had been when first built in the fifth century. Church leadership pursued the reconstruction as a symbol and image of Catholic rebirth and popular renewal.
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New Director of GCLR: Prof. Juan Pablo Lupi
Prof. Juan Pablo Lupi has accepted the Directorship of the Graduate Center for Literary Research (GCLR).
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Congratulations to Drs. Reem Taha and Marcel Strobel for successfully completing their PhDs in 2025
Reem Taha successfully defended her dissertation, “Of Here and Everywhere: The Poetics of Exile and Race in the Early Modern Mediterranean,” which was directed by Professor Bernadette Andrea (English). Marcel Strobel successfully defended his PhD dissertation, “Queering the Archive: Transgender Identities in Weimar and Nazi Germany,” which was chaired by Professor Patrice Petro (Film and Media Studies).
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UCSB emerita Suzanne Jill Levine publishes Unfaithful: A Translator’s Memoir
In this witty and incisive memoir, Suzanne Jill Levine – winner of the 2024 PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation – establishes a new way of writing about a translator's life. In Unfaithful: A Translator's Memoir, Levine interweaves her personal history and translation history in an important period.
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Han Hao Advances to Candidacy
We are pleased to announce that Han Hao has advanced to candidacy! The title of his prospectus exam and dissertation is “Poisonous Things and Hellenistic Poetry," with Dr. Francis Dunn (Chair), Dr. Dorota Dutsch, and Dr. Emilio Capettini serving on his committee. Congratulations and best of luck to Han!
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Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship Winner: Solaire Denaud
Solaire Denaud, French and Haitian Ph.D. student in the Comparative Literature Program, has been awarded the Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship for the year 2025-2026!
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