Literature and Linguistics

2015 Jun 25

IV Workshop. Thiasos: Early-career Working Group in Classics

12:30pm

Location: 

Boylston Hall (TBD). Department of the Classics. Harvard Yard

RCC is pleased to advertise this session of the ongoing seminar by "Thiasos: early-career working group in the Classics." The group includes faculty and affiliated postdoctoral fellows at the department of the Classics at Harvard University and Bard College.

This event is not open to the public.

Speakers/ Participants:

  • Zoa Alonso Fernández. RCC Fellow. Postdoctoral Fellow. Department of the...
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2015 May 08

Frictions of World Literature: Taste, Value, and Academy in Spanish and Latin American Literatures and Contexts

Fri - Sat, May 8 to May 9, 9:00am - 12:00pm

Location: 

Barker Center 133. 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge.

RCC is pleased to announce this conference organized by the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.... Read more about Frictions of World Literature: Taste, Value, and Academy in Spanish and Latin American Literatures and Contexts

2015 Apr 04

III Workshop. Thiasos: Early-career Working Group in Classics

12:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

207 Boylston Hall. Department of the Classics. Harvard Yard

RCC is pleased to advertise this session of the ongoing seminar by "Thiasos: early-career working group in the Classics." The group includes faculty and affiliated postdoctoral fellows at the department of the Classics at Harvard University and Bard College. This event is not open to the public.

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2014 Dec 13

II Workshop. Thiasos: early-career working group in the Classics

1:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

207 Boylston Hall. Department of the Classics. Harvard Yard

RCC is pleased to advertise this session of the ongoing seminar by "Thiasos: early-career working group in the Classics." The group includes faculty, affiliated postdoctoral fellows and graduate students at the department of the Classics at Harvard University and Bard College.... Read more about II Workshop. Thiasos: early-career working group in the Classics

2015 Jan 23

The West African Universes and Multi-culturalism through the Voice of a Female Write

Registration Closed 10:00am to 11:30am

Location: 

RCC, 26 Trowbridge. Cambridge MA 02138

An interdisciplinary workshop to get familiarized with the kaleidoscopic West African paradigm, its postcolonial context and the socio-cultural aspects brightly portrayed by the francophone voice of Ken Bugul, one of the most representative African female writers. The workshop presents an opportunity to gain academic skills for a better analysis and deeper understanding of the West African universes in an exchange of emerging ideas and multidisciplinary knowledge.

Contact: Alba Rodríguez García.

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2015 Jan 23

Readings in Greek and Roman Dance: from Plato to Macrobius

Registration Closed 9:00am to 11:00am

Location: 

RCC, 26 Trowbridge. Cambridge MA 02138

Graeco-Roman authors have provided interesting sources for the study of Ancient dance. In this session students will be able to discuss the value of texts as means to approach embodiment and kinesthesia. They will also investigate the differences between the Greek culture of dance and that of the Romans.... Read more about Readings in Greek and Roman Dance: from Plato to Macrobius

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2014 Oct 28

American Poet Tino Villanueva

5:30pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

RCC, 26 Trowbridge. Cambridge MA 02138

José Antonio Gurpegui, Member of the RCC Advisory Council and Professor of English Literature at Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, and David Yagüe, RCC Fellow and TA at Harvard University, are pleased to host this event that will be held at RCC.... Read more about American Poet Tino Villanueva

2014 Apr 24

Spaces of Dialogue. I International Conference on Transatlantic Literature

Thu - Fri, Apr 24 to Apr 25, 9:30am - 6:00pm

Location: 

RCC, 26 Trowbridge. Cambridge MA 02138

Space and how the human experience revolves around it has been one of the common tropes of literature. No matter the nature of the written or oral text,the common frame has been the interaction between men and women locked up within a frame – be that domestic, work, or even natural – in which and/against which the self is defined. These surroundings have greatly influenced the literary work, erecting boundaries or liberating it through the creation new fantastic spaces. However, with the discovery of the New World, these boundaries got broader, as the literary minds of the Old World were...

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