MESAAS Language Placement Tests This information is subject to change. Please consult this site again prior to the week before classes start for up-to-date information. Please note that placement exams do not satisfy language requirements. To arrange a proficiency...
Prof. Nina Garsoian passed away on Sunday, Aug. 14 at the age of 99. She was the first Avedissian Chair in Armenian Studies in MELAC (Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures) the former name of our department) and retired in 1993. She was born in Paris in 1923, and ten...
The René Wellek Prizes recognize outstanding books in the discipline of comparative literature. Submissions can pertain to any field of comparative literature, but they are expected to cross national, linguistic, geographic or disciplinary borders....
Professor Jennifer Wenzel’s book The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature is a Finalist for the 2022 Ecocriticism Book Prize awarded by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. 2022 ASLE Book Award Finalists...
Muhsin Al-Musawi has been awarded the 2022 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the category of Arabic Culture in Other Languages for The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is...
Wael Hallaq delivered the Inaugural Sir Muhammad Iqbal Lecture at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, May 19, 2022. For more information click here: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/events/ethics-empire-and-wealth-ibn-khaldun-and-modern-state To view...
