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Wednesday, October 12, 2016
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Distinguished visiting speaker event: B. Venkat ManiMS.04 Zeeman BuildingThe Shadow of Empty Shelves: World Literature and the National Socialist Pact with Books. Prof. B. Venkat Mani (Madison Wisconsin) B. Venkat Mani is Professor, Department of German and faculty affiliate, DAAD Center for German and European Studies, Global Studies, Center for South Asia, and the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research and teaching focus on 19th to 21st Century German literature and culture, world literature in translation, migration in the German and European context, book- and digital cultural histories, and theories of cosmopolitanism, globalization and post-colonialism. |