Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Enforcement in Indonesia
Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Enforcement in Indonesia
Mon, Dec 19, 2022 1:00 PM +07 (+07:00)
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"The Pernicious Fiction of 'The Public Intellectual'" with Merve Emre
Prof. Merve Emre on "The Pernicious Fiction of 'The Public Intellectual" and what makes for good public writing
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Date and time
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About this event
Join us for the the Bonn Lectures in the Public Humanities. Our speaker, Prof. Merve Emre will discuss the cultural capital of the public intellectual and her principles for good non-academic writing.
The lecture will take place via Zoom webinar.
This event is sponsored by the Department of English, American, and Celtic Studies at the University of Bonn.
Merve Emre
Merve Emre is associate professor of English at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), The Ferrante Letters (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019), and The Personality Brokers (Doubleday: New York, 2018), which was selected as one of the best books of 2018 by the New York Times, the Economist, NPR, CBC, and the Spectator, and informs the CNN/HBO Max documentary feature film Persona. She is the editor of Once and Future Feminist (Cambridge: MIT, 2018), The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway (New York: Liveright, 2021), and The Norton Modern Library Mrs. Dalloway (New York: Norton, 2021).
Her essays and criticism have appeared in publications ranging from The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and the London Review of Books to American Literature, American Literary History, and Modernism/modernity. In 2019, she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize, and her work has been supported by the Whiting Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Leverhulme Trust, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Quebec, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, where she is a fellow from 2020-2021. She is finishing a book titled Post-Discipline: Literature, Professionalism, and the Crisis of the Humanities (under contract with the University of Chicago Press) and starting a book called Woman: The History of an Idea (under contract with Doubleday US / Harper Collins UK). She is accreting an essay collection called Weird Love.