#  The Transregional Politics of Literary Language: Comparative Work across African and Asian Contexts 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **February 21, 2019** 

 05:00PM - 07:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CGIS South, Rm S250, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

 **The Asia Center Seminar Series, CMES, and the Department of Comparative Literature** present a panel on the politics of literary language with

 **Shaden Tageldin**, University of Minnesota  
**Nergis Ertürk**, Pennsylvania State University  
**Fallou Ngom**, Boston University  
**Henk Maier**, University of California Riverside, *Emeritus*

 **Panel:**  
*At the Hinge of Africa and Asia: Transregional Reinventions of World and Comparative Literature*  
**Shaden Tageldin**, Professor, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, U. Minnesota

 *Suat Dervis, the Language of Turkish Communism, and the Socialist Realist Novel*  
**Nergis Ertürk**, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University  
  
*Long Durée and Local Innovations in West African Ajami Traditions*  
**Fallou Ngom**, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the African Studies Center, Boston University  
  
*Malay as a literary/writing language in the Indian Ocean*  
**Henk Maier**, Luce Professor of Southeast Asian Studies *Emeritus,* University of California, Riverside  
   
*Chair:* **Annette Lienau**, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

 **Co-sponsors:** Asia Center, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Comparative Literature  
**Contact:** [Liz Flanagan](mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu)



 

 



 

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- [ Literature ](/research-field/literature)
- [ Modern Middle East Languages ](/research-field/modern-middle-east-languages)
- [ Turkey ](/research-region/turkey)
- [ 2018-19 ](/academic-year/2018-19)
 
 

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