Please join us for the Winter 2022 Grilk Annual Memorial Lecture.

This year, our guest speaker is Dr. Venkat Mani, Professor of German & World Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Drawing on his current book project on refugees and the global novel, in this lecture Mani asks how would our understanding of categories of national, world, or minor literatures change if unsettlement, rather than settlement, became the keyword for framing our study of literature? The lecture will underscore the significance of a global comparative literary and historical framework in the twenty-first century to undo structures of disciplinary ethno-nationalism.