The RLL department invites you to a talk by Radhika Koul:

"L'AMOUR DES ANCIENS ET DES ÉTRANGERS": 17th CENTURY FRANCE AND THE QUESTION OF MODERNITY

Radhika Koul is a Career Launch Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center and a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature at Stanford University. Her research and teaching concern the way literature and philosophy from South Asia emerge into conversations usually governed by an implicit Western logic: whether aesthetics, education, or criticism itself. She has published on issues of aesthetics and metaphysics, comparative methodology, and poetics. Her first book project brings together the poetics, drama and philosophy from seventeenth-century France and England with the philosophical and aesthetic thought of tenth-century Kashmir.

Location: Boylston Hall, Room 335

Time: February 6th, 5:00pm