This blog post is among the winners of the Department of Comparative Literatures’s 2020-2021 Blog Award for the module 6ABA0013 ‘Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa in Global Cultural Studies’. Congratulations to Oliwia Majchrowska for winning the award! At the beginning of the twentieth century, the predominantly Christian and Amharic community of the Ethiopian highlands stands on the …
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This blog post is among the winners of the Department of Comparative Literatures’s 2020-2021 Blog Award for the module 6ABA0013 ‘Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa in Global Cultural Studies’. Congratulations to Anna Haslam for winning the award! To begin to understand what modernity is and who made it, we must draw our attention to two key frameworks …
Words by Tonje Beisland The islands in the Caribbean saw their population numbers increase with rapid speed after 1945. Fuelled by issues of overpopulation and supply for labour elsewhere, migration to other corners of the world became common (Higman 2010, p. 275). In the United States, Dominicans have become the largest Latino group in New …
Please join the faculty and staff of the Department of Comparative Literature in extending warm congratulations to our graduating BA students in the Class of 2020. We are immensely proud of your accomplishments! We could not celebrate with you in person, but we have prepared a video for you:
