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Carl Landauer
@carllandauer.bsky.social
Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley Institute for South Asia Studies. Lawyer, legal & cultural historian; contributing editor to "Poetry Flash"; writer of poetry.

https://berkeley.academia.edu/CarlLandauer
Here’s the flyer for my reading with Lucille Lang Day sponsored by the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center on Saturday, Nov. 22 in Turlock! The MoST poets are a great group—so I’m really eager to share with them!
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
My talk in D.C., Mon, 3 Nov, at Johns Hopkins SAIS on modern India and its engagement with its ancient interpolity order. If you’d like to attend, I need to supply names to the organizers.
October 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Just voted YES ON 50! Dropbox on Moraga Ave., Oakland, CA.
October 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Wondered where the room was for off-putting men.
October 18, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Time set, Monday, Nov. 3, 12:30—I’ll be giving a talk at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) on modern India and its engagement with its ancient interpolity order. (flyer to come)
September 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
August 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“Exacting Clam” #18 is out with my poem, “Innocent Man on the Run,” on Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of Richard Buchan’s 1915 novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps, quite different from Hitchcock’s replotting.
August 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Not a surprise. The owner of Star Grocery in Berkeley observed today that his customers were back—they were all out protesting yesterday!
June 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
My poem, “She Had Been Registered for Vassar at Birth,” one of my “refracted ekphrastic” poems—this time on Sidney Lumet’s “The Group” (1966) after Mary McCarthy’s “The Group” (1963)—just appeared in “Exacting Clam.”

www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-17...
June 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I was extremely privileged to participate, along with amazingly brilliant & imaginative scholars in the “Workshop on Traveling Expertise in Modern South Asia & Beyond,” organized by Rohit De and David Engerman for the Yale South Asia Studies Council.

macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/wo...
May 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
No, I can't take this.
April 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
In the mtg of the AM SOC OF INT’L LAW, the elephant in the room was ever present; in some sessions a large, wrinkled pillar of leg crashed through conference room ceilings—as in the session with Harold Koh (former legal advisor to State & Yale L Sch dean) on challenges to int'l law by Trump.
April 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I just received a letter from Jackson Lears that the wonderful RARITAN will cease publication. What a loss! RARITAN has been a treasure!
April 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I just received a letter from Jackson Lears that the wonderful RARITAN will cease publication. What a loss! RARITAN has been a treasure!
April 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
50 yrs today! Stanford-in-France students at Mt-St-Michel—I’m at bottom rt w/ arms around knees. Studied Surrealism, 19th-c. Fr. socialism, 19th-c. novel, small reading course on Am. expatriates by Austryn Wainhouse (of Merlin mag crowd & transl of Sade), Fr. peasantry & ind. study on Bergson!
March 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I had a great time giving my talk at SOAS hosted by Parvathi Menon & Catriona Drew of the Centre for the Study of Colonialism, Empire & International Law.

Stayed at my favorite little Fitzrovia hotel that used to be the home of Pre-Raphaelite painter, John Everett Millais.
February 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Just received the announcement for my mid-Feb. talk at SOAS (School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London). Excited to see it!
January 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Reading with a truly magnificent poet.
September 8, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Excited that my review of Rooja Mohassessy’s “When Your Sky Runs into Mine” was just posted on “Poetry Flash” to introduce more readers to her incredible poems!

www.poetryflash.org/reviews/?p=L...
August 27, 2024 at 3:35 PM
I will be giving a talk to the DHARMASHASTRA NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY, Wed., July 17, 2024 at 6:30 PM India (9:00 AM US Eastern, 6:00 AM US Pacific) on ‘20TH-CENTURY INDIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT INTER-POLITY LAW’.

Zoom
us06web.zoom.us/j/8421416302...
Meeting ID: 842 1416 3020
Passcode: 410521
July 13, 2024 at 3:45 PM
“Lather, Rinse, Repeat”—ok, a little self-indulgent title for my brand-new article with the subtitle, “The Historical Returns of International Law.” It’s about the historical treatment of int'l law. The article is just out in “Jus Gentium: Journal of International Legal History.”
May 20, 2024 at 6:21 PM
May 20, 2024 at 5:20 PM
I assume this is what you have in mind.
January 10, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Last night, Iván Argüelles gave an amazing poetry reading at City Lights. Looking frail from recent health challenges, his readings were anything but--he gave a strong sense of his incredibly versatile imagination, wonderfully allusive writing, and inquiries into the deepest thoughts of the soul.
November 15, 2023 at 5:19 AM
35 years ago--not-very-festive Dukakis “Election Night Festivities.”
 
I did debate research in Widener, digging up liberal bills by Bush père, Prescott Bush--so that Dukakis could parry attacks about his positions being “outside the mainstream.” Tom Donilon told me Dukakis thought it too “dirty.”
November 8, 2023 at 3:59 PM