Dear Colleagues and Students,<\/p>\n
The Program in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas cordially invites you to the next session of its colloquium series, in which CCI Assistant Professor Mihaela Harper explores renowned Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov\u2019s most recent volume of poetry, \u201cThere, Where We are Not.\u201d Dr. Harper\u2019s talk will take place in the Bilkent Main Campus Library Art Gallery tomorrow, April 25 from 12:40-14:00. The talk was originally planned for last Thursday but has been postponed to tomorrow due to the speaker\u2019s illness. Sandwiches and refreshments will be on offer. We hope to see you there.
\nA more detailed description of Dr. Harper\u2019s talk is below.<\/p>\n
Best wishes,<\/p>\n
The CCI Colloquium Committee
\nSjoerd Levelt
\nWilliam Coker<\/p>\n
Georgi Gospodinov\u2019s There, Where We Are Not:
\nBeyond, Between, Elsewhere, and Nowhere<\/p>\n
Assistant Professor Mihaela P. Harper (CCI)<\/p>\n
After his last novel, The Physics of Sorrow, prompted Jean-Luc Nancy to urge everyone to read it \u201cwithout delay,\u201d a much-anticipated volume of poetry by Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov appeared in print in April 2016. He writes \u201cIn Place of a Preface\u201d that this is a book \u201cNot about the cities, but about the absence \/\u2026\/ Not geography, but beyond \/ a geography of the beyond. \/ Of this here of the bodies and there of language.\u201d Gathered over the course of a decade, Gospodinov\u2019s poetic peregrinations traverse boundaries\u2014 geographical (between the local and the global), temporal (between past and present), philosophical (between events and non-events), and linguistic (between the trivial and the profound). The poems sustain his endeavors to glimpse \u201celsewhere\u201d in its many senses and the human being with all of its doubts, sorrows, and afternoon lonelinesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Colleagues and Students, The Program in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas cordially invites you to the next session of its colloquium series, in which CCI Assistant Professor Mihaela Harper explores renowned Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov\u2019s most recent volume of poetry, \u201cThere, Where We are Not.\u201d Dr. Harper\u2019s talk will take [\u2026] <\/p>\n