Jennifer Scappettone: "From Pentecost to Babel" Wireless Imaginations in Modern Poetry and the Dream (or Nightmare) of a Transnational Language

Date
Tue December 4th 2018, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Location
Boardroom in the Humanities Center

Speaker(s): Jennifer Scappettone, Shoshana Olidort, Jason Beckman

Prof. Jennifer Scappettone (English @UChicago) will present her paper titled "From Pentecost to Babel: Wireless Imaginations in Modern Poetry and the Dream (or Nightmare) of a Transnational Language."
Shoshana Olidort (Comparative Literature) and Jason Beckman (East Asian Languages and Cultures) will respond. Followed by an open discussion. Dinner will be served.
Please contact melihle [at] stanford.edu (melihle[at]stanford[dot]edu) to receive an advanced copy of the paper.