Northeastern University London / Online, 25 June 2025 The Comparative Methods Lab is excited to announce our inaugural symposium on the theme of “Worlds, Institutions, Disciplines,” taking place at Northeastern University London and online on 25 June 2025. At a time when economic and political pressures are forcing large-scale reorganizations of university infrastructures and new…
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Comparative Methods Seminar — Spring 2025
In Spring 2025, the Comparative Methods Labs hosted a seminar series on the theme of Comparative Methods, featuring the following sessions:…
Lecture by Jacob McGuinn – Celan’s Worldlessness: World Literature and World Closure – National Taiwan University, December 2024
Jacob presented research on Paul Celan and world literature at the National Taiwan University Foreign Literatures lecture series in December 2024. Abstract The concept of ‘world’ in world literature has been variously reconstructed, in terms of scale and scope, but also in terms of its historical content. Understood as the global space of literary production…