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Corina M Stan

Bacca Foundation Associate Professor of English
English
Box 90014, Durham, NC 27708-0257
311 Allen Building, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Stitching the Past to the Present: Caryl Phillips speaks with Corina Stan (JP) · November 11, 2021 Broadcast Appearance Novel Dialogue,
On Tact in Dark Times - Exploring Self and Community in Dark Times · November 9, 2020 Invited Talk Duke University, Zoom
An Experiment in Allowing Oneself to Be Told Something - Alone Together Workshop · September 17, 2020 - September 18, 2020 Invited Talk University of Kent, Zoom
Affordances of a New Language: Abbas Khider’s Claim to Community in Deutsch für alle - Works-in-Progress Series · September 10, 2020 Invited Talk Duke-UNC German Program, Zoom
“Seventeenth-Century Literature after Modernism” · November 8, 2018 - November 10, 2018 Invited Talk Modernist Studies Association Conference, Columbus, Ohio
“Decadence, the ‘end of the West’, and the Refugee Crisis” - Symposium on Philosophy, Arts, and Literature · October 6, 2018 - October 7, 2018 Invited Talk Boston University,
"Novels in the Translation Zone: From Der falsche Inder to Ohrfeige (Abbas Khider)" - Refugee Literature Workshop · July 6, 2017 - July 8, 2017 Other GIS MOMM Congress, Paris
An Art of Distances: Heidegger, Plessner, Barthes - Uncommon Communities · January 5, 2017 - January 8, 2017 Other MLA Convention, Philadelphia
A Travesty of Innocence · November 17, 2016 - November 20, 2016 Invited Talk MSA, Pasadena
On Some Philosophical Problems in Contemporary Historical Fiction: The Seventeenth Century, Our Contemporary · July 21, 2016 - July 26, 2016 Other ICLA, Vienna
A Travesty of Innocence: Pierrot Lunaire · February 15, 2016 Invited Talk English Department, Duke University
The Lures of Polyphony: Socrates, Joyce, Schönberg - Approaches towards the Global in European and Chinese Modernisms · July 9, 2015 - July 10, 2015 Lecture Dahlem Humanities Center, Free University
The Art de Vivre Bourgeois as an Anachronism - Comment vivre ensemble · June 15, 2015 - June 16, 2015 Lecture French-Norwegian Program in Social Sciences and Humanities, Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris
Poetic Injustice: the Loss of Immunity in the Contemporary Novel - Immunity and Modernity: Picturing Threat and Protection · May 27, 2015 - May 29, 2015 Other Leuven, Belgium
The Ship of Fools: Precarious Lives in 1660s/1980s Britain - The Humble in 19th- to 21st-Century British Literature and Arts · March 27, 2015 - March 28, 2015 Other Montpellier
How to Live with Others: A History of Interpersonal Distance · February 10, 2015 Invited Talk Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature (PAL), Duke University
Rethinking the Moral Subject: Agnes Heller’s Ethics of Personality - Annual conference of the Dutch Research School of Philosophy · November 7, 2014 - November 8, 2014 Other OZSW, Nijmegen
A Passionate Misunderstanding: Ordinary Men in Paris, China - Finite, Singular, Exposed: Who’s Afraid of the Modernist Individual? · October 30, 2014 - October 31, 2014 Other Córdoba, Spain
England (as if) through a Foreigner's Eyes: George Orwell's 'Masquerade' among the Poor of London - State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries · October 24, 2014 - October 25, 2014 Other Denis Diderot, Paris
Gossip, the Deaf Waiter and the Blind Tuner: the 'Modality of the Audible' as Communal Space in Joyce’s Ulysses - Modernist Communities · April 24, 2014 - April 26, 2014 Other Société d'Etudes Modernistes, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris
The Child at the Threshold: Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood Around 1900” - Benjamin’s Figures and the Crisis of the Humanities · August 28, 2013 - August 30, 2013 Other Leiden University,
Inside the Whale: Orwell’s Paris, Miller’s China - AILC · July 18, 2013 - July 24, 2013 Other Comparatisme et malentendu”/ “Comparativism and misunderstanding”, Paris
The End of Western Culture: Canetti, Wat, Eliade - Telos: The Legacy of the West · September 7, 2012 - September 9, 2012 Other L’Aquila, Italy
Matter of Distances: Adorno and Barthes on How to Live with Others · March 29, 2012 - April 1, 2012 Other ACLA, Brown University
Authenticity and Its Discontents in Elias Canetti’s Autodafé and Crowds and Power · March 1, 2010 - March 4, 2010 Other ACLA, New Orleans
Outside and Beyond Moral Philosophy: Agnes Heller’s Ethics of Personality and the Good Reader as a Lucky Throw of the Dice - ACLA · March 26, 2009 - March 28, 2009 Other Harvard University , Cambridge
A Socialism of Distances: on the Virtues of Phronêsis, Délicatesse, and Love”. Young Scholars Workshop · February 19, 2009 - February 20, 2009 Other PAL, Duke University
Limits of Empathy: the Other’s Shoes, the Other’s Skin, and the Skeptical Voice in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations - Sich in die Haut der anderen einfuehlen. Narrative Merkmale von Empathie – Empathie als Voraussetzung von Narration · July 2, 2008 - July 4, 2008 Other International Center for Research in the Humanities, Vienna
The Body as a Measure of Truth: Orwell, Morand, and the Poor of London”. British Bodies · April 4, 2008 - April 5, 2008 Other University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign
Standing Apart: Unsocial Sociability and Other ‘Distances’ in the Poetry of Philip Larkin”. Larkin’s Elsewheres · June 29, 2007 - July 1, 2007 Other Third Hull International Conference on the Work of Philip Larkin, UK
Digging Up Utopia: Necessary Revolutions in 1640s/1960s Britain - 13th Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature: New Worlds, Lost Worlds: Discovery, Change, and Loss in Literature · March 10, 2007 - March 11, 2007 Other McGill University, Montreal
The Man Who Collected Stones: the Disposable Everyday and Other Social Disorders - Un/Common Experience: The Dross and the Glory of Everyday Life · February 16, 2007 - February 17, 2007 Other New York University,
Metamorphic Representations of History. The ‘Forgotten’ Revolution - Transformations and Mutations · January 28, 2005 - January 30, 2005 Other Annual Conference of the Duke Graduate Program in Romance Studies, Duke University
Grafting the Self: Subversive Intertextual Alliances in Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry - Constructing Images of the Self · February 20, 2004 - February 22, 2004 Other Annual Conference of the Duke Graduate Program in Romance Studies, Duke University