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Upcoming Graduate Events

February 16, 2026 (Monday)
5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

We welcome John Garcia (American Antiquarian Society) for a talk titled “Black Lives in the Early U.S. Book Trades.”

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February 19, 2026 (Thursday)
"We Have Always Been Action Theorists: Toward a Critical Theory of Language for the Age of Generative AI" 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

FBH Faculty Lounge (room 135)

At a time of rising autocracy that under-regulated tech monopolies have helped usher in, teachers and students in writing-based humanities disciplines can engage generative AI technologies from a standpoint of action—without unnecessary...

February 23, 2026 (Monday)
5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

February 24, 2026 (Tuesday)
2:15 PM to 4:00 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty lounge, room 135

We invite you to join the workshop on “Publishing in Graduate School” on February 24, 2:15–4:00 pm, in the Faculty Lounge (FBH), with Pearl Brilmyer, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Paul Saint-Amour, Lilith...

February 25, 2026 (Wednesday)
3:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Kislak Center for Special Collections

February 26, 2026 (Thursday)
Of Dunces, Class Clowns, and Other Bad Attitudes: Sex Ed in the Willa Cather School for Sexual Immorality 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

FBH Graduate Student Lounge (room 330)

February 27, 2026 (Friday)
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

FBH Graduate Student Lounge (room 330)

 

Latinx Methods and the Politics of Praxis suggests that the central concepts of Latinx studies are the result of what we do with them and to them—the result of our methods—even as the concepts might seem to dictate those...

6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

American Grammar Bookstore (2046 N. Front Street)

 

Ruben Reyes, Jr. will give a reading from his novel, Archive of Unknown...

March 2, 2026 (Monday)
5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

March 16, 2026 (Monday)
5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

March 19, 2026 (Thursday)
5:30 PM to 7:00 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge, room 135

Join AmLit and Gen/Sex for a talk by Mary Zaborskis (Associate Professor of English at Penn State Harrisburg and UPenn English PhD) on her first book, Queer Childhoods: Institutional Futures of Indigeneity, Race, and Disability (NYU Press 2024...

March 23, 2026 (Monday)
5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

March 25, 2026 (Wednesday)
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge, room 330

March 30, 2026 (Monday)
5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

April 2, 2026 (Thursday)
6:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Fisher Fine Arts Library

Salt lakes are some of the world’s most extraordinary ecosystems, but nearly all of them—from the Great Salt Lake to the Aral Sea—are drying up, a harbinger of dust storms, rising sea levels, and worsening human health. In this dazzling love letter to...

April 6, 2026 (Monday)
5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

April 9, 2026 (Thursday)
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Location TBD

April 10, 2026 (Friday)
5:30 PM to 7:00 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall room 401

 

This event is co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies Program and the Department of Cinema & Media Studies.

 

April 13, 2026 (Monday)
5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

April 20, 2026 (Monday)
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM

FBH Faculty Lounge (room 135) and Zoom

5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

April 23, 2026 (Thursday)
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

FBH Grad Student Lounge (room 330)

April 24, 2026 (Friday)
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Graduate Student Lounge (FBH room 330)

April 27, 2026 (Monday)
5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

Class of 1978 Pavilion, sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

April 29, 2026 (Wednesday)
Inventing and Inheriting Afghan Epistemologies (1722-1815) 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135)