PRESS RELEASE
Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures
Columbia University
602 Kent Hall
New York, NY 10027
Contact: Nanor Kenderian
(212) 851-4002
E-mail: nk2334@columbia.edu

Columbia University’s Department of Middle East and Asian Languages
and Cultures presents

PHILOLOGY AND CATASTROPHE

An evening with MARC NICHANIAN and respondent GIL ANIDJAR

on the questions at the heart of his latest book, Entre l?art et le
témoignage: le roman de la Catastrophe forthcoming in English as
Writers of Disaster: The Novel of the Catastrophe.

Thursday – January 22, 2009.
6:30 ? 8:00 p.m.
Maison Française – Buell Hall, East Gallery
Columbia University
See the following link for directions:
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Admission is free and open to the public.

Contact Nanor Kenderian at nk2334@columbia.edu with queries.

Co-sponsored with the Institute of Religion, Culture and Public Life
and the Maison Française.

Marc Nichanian is an independent scholar and author of La Perversion
historiographique: une réflexion arménienne (2006) forthcoming in
English translation and with an afterword by Gil Anidjar (Columbia
University Press), Writers of Disaster: The National Revolution (2002)
and Le Deuil de la philologie (2007).

Gil Anidjar is Associate Professor in the Departments of Religion and
Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures and author of Semites:
Race, Religion, Literature (2008), The Jew, the Arab: A History of the
Enemy (2003), and ?Our Place in al-Andalus:? Kabbalah, Philosophy,
Literature in Arab Jewish Letters (2002).