Student-Faculty Tea on Thesis Writing and Undergraduate Research
Wednesday, March 5th at 5pm
Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
Department of English
University of Pennsylvania
Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 127
3340 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6273
Phone: (215) 898-7341
Fax: (215) 573-2063
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Our Study Abroad Program at the University of London
Fisher-Bennett Hall 401
Friday March 7, 2014
1pm opening session and musical performance (Murat Keyder, guitar, with Rachel Ellis Neyra and Tsitsi Jaji)
Panel 1 (1.30-3) Yvette Christiansë, Edwin Hill and Rachel Ellis Neyra
3pm Music and Art in Elegy for José Esteban Muñoz and Terry Adkins*
Panel 2 (3.30-4.45) Alex Weheliye and Tsitsi Jaji
5pm Reception
Theme: We sound a sweet dissonance, to hear familiar terms resonating in a cantus novus. How has the sonic register allowed the articulation of resistance to slavery; racism, homophobia and other bigotries; and the unfreedoms engendered by capitalism? If we think of Creole languages as sonically invented, born in the forced and chosen encounters of peoples in new spaces, then how might they fit on a continuum with noise, spice, hotness, blue notes, and other cacophonies, answering back to the muting power of invisible whiteness? In other words, how can we attend to the way that white flight has historically been a retreat from loud color? And how might thinking in sonic terms elucidate the historical processes at work in shifting, overlapping, and intersecting diasporas that amplify and/or interfere with solidarity?
Tsitsi Jaji, Assistant Professor of English
Thursday, March 6, 2014
5:00 pm
Penn Bookstore
3601 Walnut Street
FREE & Open to the Public
For more informatio, contact the Center for Africana Studies at 215-898-4965 or africana@sas.upenn.edu
This event is being co-sponsored by the Department of English and held in conjuction with the Penn Bookstore. Light refreshments will be provided.
English Department Ph.D student Melanie R. Hill appears in this month's Philadelphia Style Magazine. To read the article online, feel free to go to www.phillystylemag.com.
Click here for YouTube video of the photoshoot.
Please join the Penn Disability Studies Reading Group and Gender and Sexuality Studies Reading Group for a reading and discussion with Rachel Adams (Columbia University) about her 2013 book, Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery (Yale 2013).
Tuesday, February 25th
6:00-7:30pm
Fisher-Bennet Hall, Faculty Lounge (34th St. and Walnut, first floor)