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2020 Program Sessions

070. Comparative Orientalisms

1:45 PM–3:00 PM Jan 9, 2020 (US - Pacific)

WSCC - 614

Session Information

Description: This session presents comparisons of discrete approaches to, constructions of, and gazes upon the “Orient,” from the Holy Land to East Asia, medieval and postmedieval, across media, with special attention to the spaces of Spain and England.

Speakers

Erik G. Ekman, Oklahoma State U, Stillwater

Monika Fludernik, U of Freiburg

Susan M. Nakley, St. Joseph’s C, Brooklyn

Tania Nguyen, McGill U

David Reher, U of Chicago

Presider

Shirin Khanmohamadi, San Francisco State U

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