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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Prof. P.K. Datta, “Tagore’s Experiments in Nationalism: Viswabharati”
April 11, 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Discussion of Petrus Liu's "Queer Marxism in Two Chinas"
March 26, 2019 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm -
Prof. Christopher Taylor on Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism
March 14, 2019 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
Discussion of Excerpt from Prof. Christopher Taylor's "Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism"
March 11, 2019 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm -
Nasser Mufti, "C.L.R. James in the Nineteenth Century"
February 21, 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:30pm -
Vikrant Dadawala WIP: "What if Kafka Was an Indian Communist? Or; The Passing of Soviet India, 1942-1980"
February 7, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm -
Aaron Bartels-Swindells WIP: "Of 'Masks and Marx': Ayi Kwei Armah's Afrocentrism and Decolonial Aesthetics, 1967-1984"
January 23, 2019 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm -
Event featuring Prof. Mukoma Wa Ngugi on The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership
October 11, 2018 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm -
Aaron Bartels-Swindells WIP - CANCELED
September 24, 2018 - 12:30pm to 2:30pm -
Ania Loomba, "Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism, and Feminism in India"
September 20, 2018 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm