Department of English
SEMINAR SERIES SCHEDULE
Fall 2014
“Race across Time and Space” Symposium
A Mellon-Sawyer Program at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies
November 13-14, 2014
Thursday, November 13
1:00-2:30 Textures of Race and Caste
Howie J. Tam (UPenn), “Caste and the Transit of Empire in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies”
Clare Mullaney (UPenn), “The Interstice Between Fabric & Flesh: (Re)Figuring Race in the Woven World”
Moderator: David Kazanjian (UPenn)
3:00-4:30 Afro/Indigenous Atlantics
Demetri D. Debe (McNeil Center/ Minnesota), “From the 21st Century to 1734 and Back Again: Making and Remembering Nanny of the Maroons”
Mairin Odle (NYU), “The Language of the Body: ‘Hieroglyphics’ and Tattooed Literacies”
Moderator: Daniel Richter (UPenn)
Film screening and director’s talk: Alex Rivera, Sleep Dealer and shorts
Moderator: Jazmin Delgado (UPenn)
Co-sponsored by Cinema Studies and the Biocode Series
LOCATION: 401 Fisher-Bennett Hall, 3340 Walnut St.
Friday, November 14
10:00-11:30 Keynote
Herman Bennett (CUNY Graduate Center), “Sovereignty and the Politics of Difference in the Early Modern Atlantic”
Author of Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico and Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570–1640
Comments: David Sartorius (Maryland)
12:00-1:30 Lunch Break
2-3:45 Embodied Exchanges
Justene G. Hill (McNeil Center/ Princeton), “Labor Competition and Race in the Charleston Marketplace, 1790-1820”
Carolyn Roberts (McNeil Center/ Harvard), “Proto-Racial Hierarchies and the Role of Nervous Physiology in the Abolition of the Eighteenth-Century British Slave Trade”
Lynne Feeley (Duke), “The Writingest Explorers: William Wells Brown's Literary Geographia”
Moderator: David L. Eng (UPenn)
4:15-5:30 Keynote
Ada Ferrer (NYU), “A Black Kingdom of this World”
Author of Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-98 and Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
Comments: David Sartorius (Maryland)
5:30-6:30 Reception
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Spring 2014
January 31, Friday, 12:30-2:30 - History Dept. Lounge, College Hall 209
“Race and Littoral Zones”
Eric Tagliacozzo (History, Cornell), Isabel Hofmeyr (Literature, University of Witwatersrand), and Tamara Walker (History, Penn)
Ashley Cohen, comments and moderator (McNeil Center, Penn)
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February 21, Friday, 12:30-2:30 - Wolf Room, McNeil Center
“Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity”
Scott Lauria Morgensen (Gender Studies, Queens University), Jodi Byrd (American Indian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Josie Saldaña (Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU)
Tamara Walker, comments and moderator (History, Penn)
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March 7, Friday 1-5 - Fisher Bennett Hall 401
“Thinking in Sonic Terms”
Yvette Christiansë (Africana Studies and English, Barnard), Rachel Ellis Neyra (English, Wesleyan), Edwin Hill (French, USC), Tsitsi Jaji (English, Penn), and Alexander Weheliye (English, Northwestern)
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April 4, Friday 12:30-2 - History Dept. Lounge, College Hall 209
“Dispossession and Race: The 18th-Century Transatlantic and Beyond”
Julie Kim (English, Fordham), Ramesh Mallipeddi (English, Hunter, CUNY), and Keisha-Khan Y. Perry (Africana Studies, Brown)
Chi-ming Yang, moderator (English, Penn)
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April 11, Friday, 12:30-2:30 - History Dept. Lounge, College Hall 209
“East Asia, Race, and Empire”
Takashi Fujitani (History, Toronto) and David Eng (English, Penn)
Fall 2013
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Friday, September 20th, 1-3 PM “Documenting Identities” David Sartorius (History, Maryland) |
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Friday, October 4th, 1-3PM “Caste and Casta” María Elena Martínez (History, USC) |
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Friday, October 18th, 12:30-2:30 PM “Afro/Arab/Islamophobia” Alex Lubin (American Studies, University of New Mexico/American University of Beirut) |
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Thursday, November 14th 6-8 PM "Marxism and Race" Fred Moten, (English, UC Riverside) |