Past Events | Department of English

Latitudes: Susan Z.Andrade (UPitt) discusses her latest book The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958-1988 as well as her recent article"Realism, Reception, 1968, and West Africa". MLQ 2012 (73:3).

November 20, 2012

Latitudes: Work-in-Progress by Chi-ming Yang (Penn), "Racial Ornamentalism: Memory, Ethnography, and the Craft of Chinoiserie."

November 19, 2012

HIP SUBLIME: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition

November 17, 2012

5th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

November 16, 2012

AmLit: Kate Huber, Temple University, Dept. of English

November 14, 2012

Penn English Program in London

November 13, 2012

Latitudes: Readings on the Cold War, Civil Rights and Decolonization

November 7, 2012

AmLit: Book Talk for her recent publication, Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post Civil-Rights Imagination

October 25, 2012

AmLit: Work in Progress: Excerpt from "American Hermaphrodite: Fantasies of Sexual Intersection in the Long Nineteenth Century"

October 17, 2012

Student-Faculty Tea with Jean-Michel Rabaté and Rita Copeland

October 10, 2012

Latitudes: Nico Slate (CMU) presents and discusses his book Colored Cosmopolitanism.

October 4, 2012

AmLit, Latitudes: Nico Slate, Carnegie Mellon, Dept. of History

October 4, 2012

Latitudes: Introductory Meeting and Readings: Introduction to Brown Over Black by Antoinette Burton and "The Empire Effect" by Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper.

September 17, 2012

Mod/Con: Fisher-Bennett Hall, Graduate Lounge WIP: Michel Delville. "In Anticipation of the Loop: Stein's Sonatinas" University of Li

September 11, 2012

Annual Reception for Graduating English Majors

May 14, 2012

Latitudes: End-of-the-Year Latitudes Party

April 30, 2012

The English Department End of the Year Party

April 25, 2012

Genealogies of Sovereignty: China and the Making of Modern International Law

April 23, 2012

Latitudes: Exception, Universality, and the Subject of Rights: Dalit Engagements with Global Thought

April 17, 2012

Latitudes: Thinking Difference Differently

April 16, 2012

Writing About Place: a lunchtime conversation

April 12, 2012

Latitudes: Late Coltrane, Experimental Tonality, and the Critical Resonance of Black International Sound

April 10, 2012

Latitudes: Preparation for South African Poet Laureate Keorapetse Kgositsile's visit to Penn

March 27, 2012

Book Signing and Q&A with Melissa Jensen at the Penn Bookstore

March 21, 2012

Latitudes: Presentation, "Consuming Surgery Offshore," by Aren Aizura, Rutgers University

March 20, 2012