Upcoming Events

Mar

10

(All day)

Spring Break

University of Pennsylvania
Mar

10

1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

Poetry & Poetics: Stephen Guy-Bray Talk

Location: Zoom

Poetry & Poetics are very excited to be welcoming Stephen Guy-Bray (University of Toronto) for a lunchtime chat next Wednesday (3/10) at 1pm EST, to discuss his forthcoming book on Renaissance Line endings.
Mar

10

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Med/Ren: Aylin Malcolm (University of Pennsylvania)

Location: Zoom
Mar

16

5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Latitudes: David Buchanan WIP: "Reproducing Windrush: Labor Migration, Domesticity, and Social Reproduction on the British Stage"

ZOOM

Please email David Buchanan (dbuchan@sas.upenn.edu) for a copy of the work-in-progress.

(See listserv for Meeting ID and Passcode)
Mar

17

4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

Mod/Con: Megan Quigley (Villanova): "T.S. Eliot’s Fictional Afterlives”

Location: Zoom

Email Mod/Con coordinators for Zoom link
Mar

19

12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

Med/Ren: Maaike van der Lugt (Paris-Saclay)

Location: Zoom
Mar

19

3:00 PM to 4:30 PM

Latitudes: Ato Quayson (Stanford) on "Interdisciplinary Spatial Precepts and African Urban Studies"

Location: Zoom (see listserv for Meeting ID and Passcode)

Latitudes welcomes Professor Ato Quayson (Stanford English) for a talk on "Interdisciplinary Spatial Precepts and African Urban Studies."
Mar

23

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Faculty Meeting

Location: Zoom

Zoom link TBA
Mar

24

6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

AmLit: Jodi Byrd (University of Illinois): "What Remains: Colonial Racial Capitalism, Videogames, and an Empire in Play"

Location: Zoom

Please join us for a workshop-style talk with Professor Jodi Byrd. Contact Ethan Plaue (plaue@sas.upenn.edu) or Arianna James (aqjames@sas.upenn.edu) for the Zoom link.
Mar

25

(All day)

CTL Graduate Fellowship Application due to Grad Coordinator by 12pm

FBH
Mar

30

(All day)

Engagement Day (no classes or assignments due)

University of Pennsylvania
Mar

31

5:00 PM to 6:45 PM

Mod/Con: Matt Hart (Columbia) : Excerpt from “Extraterritorial” and Publishing Q&A

Location: Zoom

Email Mod/Con coordinators for Zoom link
Apr

1

(All day)

Junior Research Seminar (JRS) Graduate Student Mentor Application due to Grad Coordinator by 12pm

FBH
Apr

2

12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

Med/Ren: Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London) and Samantha Seal (University of New Hampshire)

Location: Zoom
Apr

2

3:00 PM to 4:30 PM

AmLit: Kirsten Lee WIP

Location: Zoom

Please email Kirsten Lee (leekir@sas.upenn.edu), Ethan Plaue (plaue@sas.upenn.edu), or Arianna James (aqjames@sas.upenn.edu) to request a copy of the work-in-progress and the Zoom link.
Apr

6

5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Latitudes: Jennifer S. Ponce de León Book Launch: "Another Aesthetics is Possible"

ZOOM

Please join Latitudes for a celebration of the publication of Professor Jennifer S. Ponce de León's book Another Aesthetics is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War, forthcoming from Duke University Press.

(See listserv for Meeting ID and Passcode)
Apr

7

3:00 PM to 5:30 PM

Gen/Sex: Film Series – The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer, 2015)

Location: Zoom

During this fourth event of the film series, Gen/Sex will meet to watch The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer, 2015) and we will have a subsequent discussion led by Dixon Li. This event will be held virtually. We will start by watching the film together over Zoom and then we will take a five-minute break followed by an hour of discussion. For access to the Zoom link or if you have any questions, please email Jacob Myers (jamyers@sas.upenn.edu).
Apr

9

2:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Latinx Studies: Arlene Dávila (New York University)

Location: Zoom

A discussion and Q&A with Prof. Dávila on her new book Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics
Apr

12

(All day)

Engagement Day (no classes or assignments due)

University of Pennsylvania
Apr

12

(All day)

Graduate Spring Language Exams

Fisher-Bennett Hall
Apr

13

5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Latitudes: Neferti Tadiar (Barnard) on "Remaindered Life"

ZOOM

Latitudes welcomes Professor Neferti Tadiar (Barnard College) for a talk on her forthcoming book project, Remaindered Life, a meditation on the disposability and surplus of life-making under contemporary conditions of the global empire of capital.

(See listserv for Meeting ID and Passcode)
Apr

14

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Med/Ren: Heide Estes (Monmouth University)

Location: Zoom
Apr

15

5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

On Christopher Chitty's "Sexual Hegemony" (Duke UP, 2020): A Conversation with editor Max Fox

Location: Zoom

Please join for a conversation with Max Fox, editor of Christopher Chitty's Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System published by Duke University Press in 2020. Zoom details forthcoming.
Apr

20

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Faculty Meeting

Location: Zoom

Zoom link TBA
Apr

21

6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

AmLit: Professor Tao Leigh Goffe (Cornell)

Location: Zoom

Am Lit welcomes Dr. Goffe for a talk on her current project.

Coordinated by: Ethan Plaue and Arianna Q. James
Apr

22

7:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Mod/Con: Seo Hee Im (Hanyang): Title TBA

Location: Zoom

Email Mod/Con coordinators for Zoom link
Apr

28

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Med/Ren: Dennis Britton (University of New Hampshire)

Location: Zoom
Apr

29

(All day)

Last day of classes

University of Pennsylvania
May

17

(All day)

Commencement

University of Pennsylvania
Aug

30

10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Graduate 50 Book Exams

Exams will be held 10-12 PM or 2-4 PM by Zoom. Information will be sent to you by your 50-Book Chair.
Sep

4

(All day)

Graduate 50 Book Exams Reports due to Graduate Coordinator

FBH
Sep

9

5:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Collation and Department Party

Log in with Penn Key for location details
Sep

17

5:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Collation

Location: Zoom
Oct

8

(All day)

WIPs Sign-up Deadline

FBH

WIPs Sign-up for Wednesday, November 28 Deadline
Oct

19

(All day)

Graduate Fall Language Exam

Fisher-Bennett Hall
Oct

22

(All day)

Field Exams Scheduled

Third Years and Faculty Committees
FBH

Dates for written and oral portions of Field Exams should be scheduled. Written Field Exams begin no sooner than 2 weeks before Thanksgiving and no later than last day of fall classes (Thursday, November 8- Monday, December 10 ). Oral portion of Field Exam takes place with 2 weeks of the written exam no later than Thursday, December 20.
Nov

8

(All day)

Graduate Field Exams (Written)

Third Years and Faculty Committees
FBH

Written Field Exams begin no sooner than 2 weeks before Thanksgiving and no later than last day of fall classes (Thursday, November 8- Monday, December 10). Oral portion of Field Exam takes place within 2 weeks of the written exam no later than Thursday, December 20.
Nov

12

(All day)

Kislak Fellowship Due to Graduate Coordinator by 12pm

FBH
Nov

24

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Works-in-Progress Workshop for Fifth Years

Faculty and Students
Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
Feb

11

(All day)

King’s College Fellowship Applications Due to Grad Coordinator by 12pm

FBH
Feb

11

(All day)

WIPs Sign-up for Wednesday, April 24 Deadline

FBH
Feb

11

10:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Graduate Admissions Final Meeting

Graduate Admissions Committee
Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge
Feb

15

(All day)

SAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship and SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships Due to Graduate Division

FBH
Feb

16

12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

50-Book and Field Exam Discussion

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge

50-Book Exam Discussion (12-1pm)

(First Years)

Field Exam List Discussion (1-2pm)

(Second Years)
Apr

1

(All day)

Junior Research Seminar (JRS) Graduate Student Mentor Application due to Grad Coordinator by 12pm

FBH

Poetry & Poetics: Stephen Guy-Bray Talk

Med/Ren: Aylin Malcolm (University of Pennsylvania)

Latitudes: David Buchanan WIP: "Reproducing Windrush: Labor Migration, Domesticity, and Social Reproduction on the British Stage"

Mod/Con: Megan Quigley (Villanova): "T.S. Eliot’s Fictional Afterlives”

Med/Ren: Maaike van der Lugt (Paris-Saclay)

Latitudes: Ato Quayson (Stanford) on "Interdisciplinary Spatial Precepts and African Urban Studies"

AmLit: Jodi Byrd (University of Illinois): "What Remains: Colonial Racial Capitalism, Videogames, and an Empire in Play"

Mod/Con: Matt Hart (Columbia) : Excerpt from “Extraterritorial” and Publishing Q&A

Med/Ren: Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London) and Samantha Seal (University of New Hampshire)

AmLit: Kirsten Lee WIP

Latitudes: Jennifer S. Ponce de León Book Launch: "Another Aesthetics is Possible"

Gen/Sex: Film Series – The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer, 2015)

Latinx Studies: Arlene Dávila (New York University)

Latitudes: Neferti Tadiar (Barnard) on "Remaindered Life"

Med/Ren: Heide Estes (Monmouth University)

AmLit: Professor Tao Leigh Goffe (Cornell)

Mod/Con: Seo Hee Im (Hanyang): Title TBA

Med/Ren: Dennis Britton (University of New Hampshire)