[Hum_Calendar_Events] Department of Comparative Literature Lecture Series

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Department of Comparative Literature

Lecture Series

"What is Comparative Literature?" II

2006-2007

 

presents

 

Arif Dirlik

(University of Oregon)

 

"The Ends of Theory:  Bringing Reality Back In" 

 

February 1, 2007

4:30pm

Faculty Center, Hacienda Room

 

Arif Dirlik is a Knight Professor of Social Science. He teaches in the
Departments of History and 

Anthropology, and his research focuses on Modern China, Transnational
Asian Studies, Pacific 

Formations, Asian-Americans, Postcolonial Studies, and Globalization. He
is the author of numerous books and edited volumes, including
Postmodernity's Histories: The Past as Legacy and Project (2000);
Hougeming fenwei (The Postrevolutionary Aura) (in Chinese) (1999); The
Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism
(1997); Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution (1991); The 

Origins of Chinese Communism (1989); and Revolution and History: Origins
of Marxist Historiography in China, 1919-1937 (1978).

This Event is Co-Sponsored by the Mellon Fellows Program

 

 

 

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