Latitudes
Housed at Penn English, Latitudes is a graduate reading group that spotlights issues of transnationalism, postcoloniality, race, empire, and globalization across time and space. We provide an encouraging forum for intellectual exchange across a vast range of disciplines such as literature, anthropology, history, economics, sociology, and gender/sexuality studies. Every year, Latitudes welcomes critics, writers, and filmmakers from the region and beyond to present and discuss their impressive new work. In addition to faculty from Penn, other past speakers have included Kandice Chuh, Anupama Rao, Meg Wesling, film directors Grace Lee (American Revolution: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs) and Sanjay Kak (Red Ant Dream). We also warmly invite other graduate students in their dissertating stage to use the forum as a workshop for their research in progress.
LATITUDES Graduate Reading Group for Empire, Race, Postcolonialism, Transnationalism, & Globalization |
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Upcoming Events
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Julie Beth Napolin (The New School)
March 2, 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
David Buchanan WIP: "Reproducing Windrush: Labor Migration, Domesticity, and Social Reproduction on the British Stage"
March 16, 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Ato Quayson (Stanford) on "Interdisciplinary Spatial Precepts and African Urban Studies"
March 19, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm -
Jennifer S. Ponce de León Book Launch: "Another Aesthetics is Possible"
April 6, 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Neferti Tadiar (Barnard) on "Remaindered Life"
April 13, 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Past Events
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Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Northeastern) on "Geographies of Reproduction: Racial Capitalism and Gender in the Atlantic World"
February 16, 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Discussion of "Decolonizing Diasporas" by Prof. Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez
December 2, 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Sarah Brouillette (Carleton University) on "Literature and Underdevelopment"
November 4, 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Julie Beth Napolin (The New School) on "Sinister Resonance: The Extraction of Sound and Language in Conrad and Du Bois--CANCELED
April 2, 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Margaret Bruchac (Penn Anthropology) on "Savage Kin: Indigenous Informants and American Anthropologists"--CANCELED
March 26, 2020 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
Nick Millman WIP: "Novels of Agrarian Globality: Articulation, Dispossession, and the Racial Capitalist World-System in José María Arguedas' Todas las sangres/All Bloods and Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay's The Tale of Hansuli Turn"
February 27, 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Professor Debjani Bhattacharyya (Drexel History) on "Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta"
February 20, 2020 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
Professor Nikhil Anand (Penn Anthropology) on "The Promise of Infrastructure" and More
October 24, 2019 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
Discussion of Said and Aboul-Ela
October 10, 2019 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm -
Rovel Sequeira Work in Progress Presentation: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Sexual Science and the Biography of Sodomy in Colonial North India"
September 26, 2019 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm