The History Dept. of the College of Arts presents:
Dr. Gabriel Piterberg, from UCLA , speaking on: "Comparative settler colonialism and comparative literature in conversation"
This talk is a close, yet contextual, reading of two pairs of literary
texts: autobiographical novels by Albert Camus and S. Yizhar; and short
stories by Camus and Amos Oz. On this basis a conversation is created
between the field of comparative settler colonialism on the one hand, and
comparative literature on the other. Reciprocal insight is gained: the