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cosmopolitanism

Middle East Centre

Hamid Dabashi in conversation about his new book:The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad

Hamid Dabashi (Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York), gives a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

“Guide to a Disturbed Planet”: Modernist travel and the Cosmopolitics of Hospitality in Rebecca West

Annabel Williams explores the notion of hospitality in British modernist travel literature through the work of Rebecca West.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

Cosmopolitan Bodies and choral Anxieties in early twentieth-century Performances of Greek Drama

Fiona Macintosh examines the anxieties in pre-WW1 Britain surrounding social and theatrical, and especially Greek-inspired, dance, which becomes increasingly associated with moral decadence and dangerous 'cosmopolitanism'.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

Queer Cosmopolitanism in the Expatriate Literature of Berlin

Ben Robbins considers queer cosmopolitanism in the work of Anglophone writers who lived in Berlin during the era of the Weimar Republic.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

21st-Century Literary Cosmopolitanism: Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s Global Village

Arcana Albright examines the cosmopolitan dimension of contemporary Belgian author Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s oeuvre, in particular his literary website.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

The location of world literature: spaces of self-reflection

Galin Tihanov seeks to locate the Anglo-Saxon discourse of ‘world literature’ vis-à-vis three major reference points: time, space, and language, and to examine the potential of literature to construct its own images of 'world literature'.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

The International Culture of the Belle Époque: Media, Avant-Garde and Mass Culture in Europe (1880-1920)

Julien Schuh examines the circulation of styles and ideas through periodicals in Europe at the turn of the twentieth century.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

An Ottoman Cosmopolitan in the Turkish Republic of Letters: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

Nagihan Haliloğlu posits Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar as a pioneer of literary cosmopolitanism in Turkey, considering his lectures on literature, given in 1950’s at the Turkish Literature department, Istanbul University.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Internationalism. Reflections from an example : France between the two world wars

Guillaume Bridet assesses how Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Internationalism interact and differ in the French literary context during the interwar period.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

Indifférence engagée: Elites, modernism and cosmopolitanism

Francesca Billiani discusses cosmopolitism as practiced by the Italian cultural elites under the Fascist regime.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

Two English Women Periodicals Editors in Italy: Theodosia Garrow Trollope and Helen Zimmern as literary and cultural Go-betweens

Isabelle Richet analyses two English-language periodicals published by British expatriates in Florence in the 19th century.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

Le Haiasdan, Arménie, Armenia: Language Choice and the Construction of an Armenian Diasporic Identity (1888-1905)

Stéphanie Prévost discusses what publishing an Armenian periodical in Paris & London, in another language than Armenian meant for the construction of an Armenian identity at the time of the national awakening (Zartonk).
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

The Italian press in Egypt: Writing and Reading the Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism

Alessandra Marchi examines the italian political press in Alexandria (Egypt), mainly at the beginning of the XX century.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

Literary Encounters fostered by Nineteenth-Century Francophone Press published in the United Kingdom

Valentina Gosetti gives the first presentation in the seventh panel; Cosmopolitan Literary Exchange in the Transnational Press.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

Une Femme m’apparut: Lesbian Desire and “French” Identity

Sarah Parker focuses on the love affair between the Decadent poets Olive Custance and Renée Vivien and the American writer Natalie Barney, arguing that affecting ‘Frenchness’ and writing in French allowed them to articulate their desire for one another.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

The “Unspeakable” T. W. H. Crosland

Rebecca N. Mitchell discusses the anti-cosmopolitanism of litigious editor and literary gadfly T. W. H. Crosland.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

The Relation of Fellow-Feeling to Sex: Laurence Housman and Queer Cosmopolitanism

Kristin Mahoney’s paper on Laurence Housman asserts that Housman implemented a Decadent vision of queer desire in his activist work in support of the pacifist and Indian independence movements in the 1930s and 40s.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

The transnational Literary Field: Between (Inter)Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism (Keynote address)

Gisèle Sapiro traces the emergence of a transnational literary field in the twentieth century by analysing the book market for translations.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

Make It… Foreign? The Cosmopolitan Aesthetics of Jaakooff Prelooker’s The Anglo-Russian

Martina Ciceri explores the cosmopolitan aesthetics of Jaakoff Prelooker’s magazine 'The Anglo-Russian' in Late-Victorian England.
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters

'Intellectual cosmopolitanism affirms itself in the land': Hermes and the Basque-English Network of the 1920s

Leire Barrera-Medrano explores the Basque-English Modernist network surrounding the journal 'Hermes' which represents a prominent example of the connection between cosmopolitan localism, nationalist politics and modernist aesthetics.

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