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Seminars

Southern Literatures across Multiple Southscapes

Organizer: Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi

This seminar examines “southern literature” from a comparative perspective, examining how “the South” may be invoked and imagined at different locales.Taking Thadious M. Davis’s concept of “... more

Complicit Figures, Complicit Forms

Organizer: Shirl Yang

We invite papers that explore complicity as a critical methodology for literary and cultural studies. In an age of globalization, hyper-commodification, continued expropriation of labor and resources... more

Children As the Future: Rights & Representations

Organizer: Madelaine Hron

Children have long been associated with futurity -- be it as future promise, as caveats from the future or as our responsibility to the future. Illustrative examples of "children as the future" are... more

Global Modernism and the Global Philosophy of Mind

Organizer: Shaj Mathew

This seminar convenes scholars working in philosophy and literature, broadly construed. It harnesses the frisson between global modernist literature and global philosophies of mind. Seemingly remote... more

Work

Organizer: Alya Ansari

“Work” is a keyword of contemporary fiction and theory alike. Over the past several decades, as the deepening contradictions of neoliberal capitalism have dovetailed with acute financial crises, the... more

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