"Global Literatures & Global Literacies: Teaching Texts, Old and New" is a symposium to advance thinking about the current and future teaching of literature, as well as a new literature major, at UW.It is also an opportunity for networking and collaboration among faculty members whose teaching emphasizes trans-national, trans-regional, trans-historical, and/or trans-cultural orientations.

Registration in advance is required for attendance. A full program will be emailed to registrants in advance of the symposium and will include the Zoom meeting URL along with a Google Drive link to materials related to the panel discussions. You can register for Global Literatures & Global Literacies at http://bit.ly/RegisterGLITS.

Symposium Overview:
1:30 pm Opening Remarks
Brian Reed (Divisional Dean for the Humanities)

1:45 pm Session I –Cross-Cultural Themes in Literature
Ellwood Wiggins (Germanics): “Sympathy for the Devil”
Olga Levaniouk (Classics), Heidi Pauwels(Asian L&L): “Epic Emotions from Ancient Greece to Contemporary India”
Richard Block (Germanics): “Sibling Rivalries”

2:15 pm Session II –Literature Across Time and Space
Bich-Ngoc Turner (Asian L&L): “Twentieth Century Vietnamese Literature”
Eduardo Viana da Silva (Spanish & Portuguese): “Introduction to Lusophone Literature”
Annegret Oehme (Germanics), Beatrice Arduini (French & Italian): “Global Middle Ages”
Terri DeYoung (NELC): “Canonicity and Arabic Literature”
Galya Diment (Slavic): “Big Books”

2:55 pm Session III –New Pathways in the Humanities
Chad Allen (English): “Always on Native Ground”
Sarah Stroup (Classics): “Introducing Humanities First”

3:20 pm Session IV:  Integrative Literary Studies
Jason Groves (Germanics): “Literatures and Cultures of Extinction”
Juliet Shields (English): “Globalization and the Literature of Slavery”
Aria Fani (NELC): “Near Eastern Travel Writing and Translation”
Monika Kaup (English): “Global Detective Fiction”
Selim Kuru (NELC): “Senior Seminars”

3:55pm Session V: The Future of Global Literary Studies
Moderator: Gary Handwerk (CHID)
Respondents: Sasha Senderovich (Slavic), Lauren Poyer (Scandinavian)

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