"Comparative Settler Colonialism & Comparative Literature: Gabriel Piterberg Visit

The History Dept. of the College of Arts presents:
Dr. Gabriel Piterberg, from UCLA , speaking on: "Comparative settler colonialism and comparative literature in conversation"
This talk is a close, yet contextual, reading of two pairs of literary
texts: autobiographical novels by Albert Camus and S. Yizhar; and short
stories by Camus and Amos Oz. On this basis a conversation is created
between the field of comparative settler colonialism on the one hand, and
comparative literature on the other. Reciprocal insight is gained: the
literature is related to the material context within which it was produced,
and the socio-economic historical structures are illuminated by subjective
human experience and consciousness.
Bio: Gabriel Piterberg teaches the history of the Ottoman Empire, and such modern topics as settler colonialism, Zionism, and Israel/Palestine at UCLA. Among his publications are An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play (University of California Press, 2003) and The Returns of Zionism (Verso,
2008). He writes for London Review of Books and New Left Review.
Tuesday, Dec. 18/12 @ 4:00 pm in Rm. MACK 132