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  • Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 1:00pm to Friday, March 20, 2015 - 5:00pm

TBD and Kislak Center, 6th Floor of Van Pelt Library


On March 19-20, 2015, Penn English will host "Locating Post-45," a conference organized around the periodizing category of "Post-1945." As a term that has emerged as an organizing principle for twentieth-century literary studies, we want to probe its curious, and perhaps provisional, durability. The conference would like to generate new considerations of the locations and worldedness of the term by examining its ever-branching critical crosscurrents.

The one-and-a-half day event will comprise two graduate seminars, an exhibition, a lightning talk, and traditional panels featuring speakers from across the country. Please join us for an extensive discussion of Post-45 studies and its possible after-lives! Please visit our website, http://post-45.tumblr.com/, for more details.

Locating Post-45 is organized by: Laura Finch, Jessica Hurley, Chris Jimenez, Cliff Mak, Kalyan Nadiminti, Kelly Rich, Sara Sligar, Orchid Tierney, and Omari Weekes.

With generous support from the Mellon Foundation, the School of Arts and Sciences, the Kelly Writers House, the Department of English, Asian American Studies, the Modernism and Twentieth Century Reading Group, the Penn Humanities Forum, the Program in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory, the American Literature Reading Group, the Gender and Sexuality Studies Reading Group, the Theorizing Lectures Series, and GAPSA.