How to talk about Atmosphere
A Conversation with Louise Hornby and Dora Zhang (Berkeley).
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Job Talk by Alison Bigelow
Alison Bigelow, Assistant Professor, colonial Latin American literature, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, University of Virginia. Talk Title: Mining Language: Extractive Industries and Indigenous Knowledge Production in the Early Americas Talk Description: Between 1500 and 1820, three out of every four people who crossed the Atlantic Ocean were enslaved Africans. They arrived to a...
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Poetry at the Hammer
A Reading by Joy Harjo
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New Directions in Postcolonial Studies: Literary Genealogies and Material Culture
The Spanish-American Number: Travel, Translation, and the Literary History of Modernism Peter Hulme, University of Essex Mines, Minerals, Mimesis, and Memory Rajani Sudan, Southern Methodist University This event was organized by the Postcolonial Theory and Literary Studies Colloquium and made possible by generous support from the Departments of English and Spanish and Portuguese.
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The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators. A Book Talk
by Michael Rothberg
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Gayatri Gopinath Job Talk
“Unruly Visions: The Queer Regional Imaginaries of Sunil Gupta and Agha Shahid Ali” ABSTRACT: This talk considers the work of two contemporary South Asian diasporic artists, the poet Agha Shahid Ali and the photographer Sunil Gupta, within the framework of archive, region, and affect that Gopinath develops in her recently published book Unruly Visions. Gopinath...
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Re-Charge: Postcolonial Studies and Energy Humanities
A talk by Pablo Mukherjee
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Job talk by Nicole Gervasio
Testimony for the Future: State Redemption as an Art of the Impossible in Contemporary Novels on Genocide In my book project, “Arts of the Impossible: Decolonial Feminist Approaches to Reconstructing State Memory and Collective Trauma in Contemporary Literature,” I examine how and why non-Western writers from 1984 to the present fabricate several genres of archival...
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POSTPONED: Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlifes of Slavery. A Book Talk
A conversation on the themes in professor Yogita Goyal's latest book Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery. Where Goyal reads current literature to uncover the links between contemporary concepts of freedom and bondage--from unlawful detention to sex trafficking to the refugee crisis to genocide--and the antebellum genre of the slave narrative.
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POSTPONED: Kanner Lecture: Yopie Prins
New date and time coming soon.
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Job Talk by Summer Kim Lee
Summer Kim Lee, Mellon Faculty Fellow, English and Creative Writing, Dartmouth College Talk Title: “Cold Leftovers: Touching Asian Femininity’s Material Remains” Talk Description This talk engages with iterations of exoticized, hypersexualized Asian femininity in David Henry Hwang’s play M. Butterfly (1988), filmmaker and scholar Mila Zuo’s short film Carnal Orient (2016), and artist Alison Kuo’s...
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POSTPONED Kanner Lecture: Julie Orlemanski
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CANCELLED “After English” A look at professional life with an English Degree
A talk with alumna Julia Luster
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Kanner Lecture: Toril Moi
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Department Honors Showcase
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Awards Ceremony for English & Writing Programs
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