513 Fayerweather
Columbia University
Department of History, the Center for International History, and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS)
As part of the International History Workshop, Professor Margaret Litvin of Boston University will join us for a conversation about her current project on Arab life in 1970s Moscow student dormitories.
It is a great honor for us to invite you to another exiting, inter-disciplinary and truly international meeting of the International History Workshop. Our guest speaker for this upcoming Wednesday, 8 February, is Margaret Litvin, an associate Professor of Arabic & Comparative Literature at Boston University. Specializing in modern Arabic drama and political culture, Professor Litvin is the author of the renowned work, Hamlet’s Arab Journey: Shakespeare’s Prince and Nasser’s Ghost (Princeton, 2011).
Professor Litvin will present us her paper, “Fellow Travelers? Two Arab Study Abroad Narratives of Moscow”, from her current book project, Another East: Arab Writers, Moscow Dreams. This work in progress explores the educational and cultural ties between the Soviet Union and several Arab countries during and after the “Cold War” period.
As usual, we will be meeting this Wednesday, 8 February, 11:45-12:45 in 513 Fayerweather Hall, and lunch will be served.
The event is co-sponsored by Columbia’s Department of History, the Center for International History and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS).
In case you are aiming to attend and interested in receiving the pre-circulated paper, please write to: rb3159@columbia.edu
Students wishing to attend should e-mail the event organizer, Roy Bar Sadeh, at rb3159@columbia.edu for a copy of Professor Litvin’s paper.
