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Upcoming Graduate Events

November 5, 2025 (Wednesday)
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

FBH Graduate Student Lounge (room 330)

 

Please join us this Wednesday evening for a work in progress from Professor Elizabeth Allen of UC Irvine! A flyer with all the details is attached below. Professor Allen's project is entitled "Debt and Romance Mitigations in Sir Amadace."...

November 6, 2025 (Thursday)
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Online (Zoom)

 

This meeting will be a hybrid event with UC Berkeley's Relational Latinx and Asian American Cultural Studies Working Group, co-hosted by AmLit. 

Natalia Reyes and Miguel Samano will share excerpts from current dissertation chapter drafts. Reyes'...

November 10, 2025 (Monday)
5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

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

We look forward to welcoming Kate Meng Brassel (University of Pennsylvania) for a talk titled “Binding and the Discipline: Some Paths around the Classics.”

 

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November 12, 2025 (Wednesday)
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

FBH Grad Lounge (room 330)

November 17, 2025 (Monday)
5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

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

November 19, 2025 (Wednesday)
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

FBH Faculty Lounge (room 135)

 

Co-sponsored by Latitudes and the Asian American Studies Program (ASAM) at Penn.

 

November 24, 2025 (Monday)
5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

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

December 1, 2025 (Monday)
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

FBH Faculty Lounge (room 135)

 

 

 

5:15 PM to 7:15 PM

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

December 4, 2025 (Thursday)
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Zoom

The Relational Latinx and...

December 5, 2025 (Friday)
3:00 PM to 5:00 PM

FBH Grad Student Lounge (room 330)

January 21, 2026 (Wednesday)
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge, room 330

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

FBH Grad Student Lounge (room 330)

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

FBH Grad Student Lounge (room 330)

February 12, 2026 (Thursday)
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

FBH Grad Student Lounge (room 330)

 

This event will be co-sponsored by the AmLit, Latitudes, and Latinx Studies Working Groups in the Department of English, and by the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies (CLALS).

 

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

FBH Faculty Lounge (room 135)

February 27, 2026 (Friday)
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 25, 2026 (Wednesday)
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge, room 330

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

FBH Faculty Lounge (room 135) and Zoom