Prof. Amr Kamal in conversation with Prof. Bettina Lerner

March 26, 2025
5:00PM-6:30PM
Rifkind Center (NAC 6/316) or Virtual via Zoom

Photo by Vittorio Santoro

Prof. 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 of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center.

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).

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