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Upcoming Graduate Events

December 5, 2024 (Thursday)
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135)

Join the Mod/Con group in the graduate lounge to read some excerpts from Jesse McCarthy's The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War. Please check the Mod/Con Library or write to Jonathan Dick (...

December 11, 2024 (Wednesday)
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Grad Lounge (FBH 330)

Come join us to celebrate the end of the fall semester! We’ll have refreshments, live music, and a tree (bring your own ornament) and cookies to decorate. Hope to see you there!

December 13, 2024 (Friday)
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall Grad Lounge (room 330)

Dr. Miles Grier from City University of New York is presenting a taste of the introduction to a new book project which features a chapter on Aphra Behn's The Widow Ranter.

January 14, 2025 (Tuesday)
3:30 PM to 4:30 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge, Room 135 with hybrid/zoom option

“Asian Avatars: Techno-Orientalism, Cyborgs, and the Question of Futurity”

Contact Chi-ming Yang for Zoom information.

January 23, 2025 (Thursday)
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Grad Lounge (FBH 330)

The Black Cultural Studies Collective and the Latinx Studies Working Group will host a joint works in progress session. Texts will be made available in advance of the session; please contact Natalia Reyes (...

February 6, 2025 (Thursday)
5:30 PM to 7:00 PM

TBA

Itzel Corona Aguilar, Just Transformations Postdoctoral Scholar at Penn State University, and David Kazanjian, Professor of English and Graduate Chair of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at UPenn, will engage in a conversation about their...

February 20, 2025 (Thursday)
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Grad Lounge (FBH 330)

February 21, 2025 (Friday)
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135)

Join the Mod/Con group in the Faculty Lounge for a discussion with Jesse McCarthy about his latest book The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War. A reading event for this talk will take place December 5th, 2024; please check the...

March 7, 2025 (Friday)
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge (room 135)

Join the Mod/Con group in the Faculty Lounge for a discussion with Hannah Freed-Thall about her latest book Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons, which won this year's MSA Best Book Prize. Please check the...

March 27, 2025 (Thursday)
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Grad Lounge (FBH 330)

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April 11, 2025 (Friday)
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Fisher-Bennett Hall Graduate Lounge (room 330)

Join the Mod/Con group in the Graduate Lounge for a work-in-progress by Penn English grad, Avni Sejpal. Please check the Mod/Con Library or write to Jonathan Dick or Eilis Lombard (...