Global Humanities for the 21st Century: a conversation With Azar Nafisi , the author of Reading Lolita in Tehran

29 Apr 2011 - 17:00 / 29 Apr 2011 - 19:00

Northrop Frye Hall, Room 003
Victoria College
U of T

The Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, Department of History, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Centre for Comparative Literature, Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, and the University of Toronto Faculty Association

present
 
 an open public discussion on
 
 Global Humanities for the 21st Century:
 a conversation With Azar Nafisi
 the author of Reading Lolita in Tehran
 
 
Looking beyond the crisis that was inaugurated in the summer of 2010 with the release of the Faculty of Arts and Science Academic Plan 2010-2015, this discussion with Azar Nafisi seeks to explore various ways of reinvigorating the humanities at the University of Toronto and beyond. Instead of disestablishing the language and literature departments in the name of financial expediency, the participants on this panel explore a global vision of the humanities in which area studies and language and literature departments provide the core competency for educating culturally literate citizens of an expanding global public sphere.