Narratives of exile – Prof. Galin Tihanovin vierailuluento 26.2.2014 klo 18

Professor Galin Tihanov (University of London, Queen Mary) will visit the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Helsinki to give a lecture

NARRATIVES OF EXILE: COSMOPOLITANISM BEYOND THE LIBERAL IMAGINATION

Time: Wednesday, February 26th, 2014 at 6–8 p.m.
Venue: sali 6, Metsätalo (Unioninkatu 40B, 3rd floor)

About the lecturer: Galin Tihanov holds the George Steiner Chair of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. He was previously Professor of Comparative Literature and Intellectual History and founding co-director of the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at the University of Manchester. His most recent research has been on exile, cosmopolitanism, and transnationalism. He is the author of The Master and the Slave: Lukacs, Bakhtin and the Ideas of their Time (2000) and the co-author of A Companion to the Works of Robert Musil (2010) and Critical Theory in Russia and the West (2011).