THE RIFKIND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES AND ARTS
AND THE DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICAL AND MODERN
LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES PRESENT

Emporialism: DEPARTMENT STORE FICTIONS AND THE POLITICS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN

Prof. Amr Kamal in conversation with Prof. Bettina Lerner

Wednesday, March 26, 5:00 – 6:30pm

IN PERSON (NA 6/316) and via ZOOM

Amr Kamal will speak about his new book. Emporialism: Department Store Fictions and the Politics of the Mediterranean. The book looks at the convergence between emporia (department stores) and spaces and imaginaries of empires, in the context of a modern Mediterranean divided between the British, French, and Ottoman empires.

Amr Kamal is Associate Professor of French, Arabic and Comparative Literature at The City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Bettina Lerner is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at The City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of Inventing the Popular: Printing, Politics, and Poetics (Routledge, 2018).

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC