Reading group

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As part of the MULOSIGE project, we hold regular group meetings in which we read general critical texts on world literature and others that deal specifically with our regions. Here you can find a list of upcoming and past reading groups including our reading lists. If you are interested in joining us for future events, please get in touch via the contact form.

Upcoming reading groups

Reading group meetings will restart in Autumn 2018. Sign up to the MULOSIGE mailing list to receive updates!

Past reading groups

Read about our previous reading group meetings, see past reading lists, and recommend further readings in the blogs below.

How Love is Revolution: The Unexpected Love Objects of Dunya Noor

By |February 9th, 2021|Categories: Maghreb, Maghreb Reading, Reading Group|Tags: , , , , , |

The novelist Rana Haddad writes about her novel, "The Unexpected Love Objects of Dunya Noor" for the MULOSIGE project.

Reading group with S. Shankar (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)

By |June 6th, 2017|Categories: Literary Criticism, Past events, Reading Group, Translations|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

S. Shankar's work challenges reductive understandings of ‘world’ as presented in theories of ‘world literature’ and critiques conceptualisations of ‘literature’ as influenced by Western ideas of the ‘literary’

Reading group on Education and Comparative Colonialisms

By |March 15th, 2017|Categories: Education and Taste, Past events, Reading Group|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Education systems, and the literary works they prioritized, are an excellent inroad to outlining how literary forms and cultures responded to colonialism

Reading group with Javed Majeed (King’s College London)

By |February 22nd, 2017|Categories: Education and Taste, North India, Past events, Reading Group, Translations|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Javed Majeed joined us for an informative and enjoyable reading group where we discussed his work on the Linguistic Survey of India and its superintendent, George Grierson.

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