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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In Spring 2021, Latitudes launched a companion publication, Longitudes, an online forum for graduate students to publish short, peer-reviewed responses to our speakers and co-sponsored events. Please visit Longitudes for the latest posts by our members, an archive of our past events, and submission guidelines should you wish to write a post.
Upcoming Events
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Yogita Goyal (UCLA): Genres of Anticolonialism: Rethinking Failure, Plotting Revolution
April 3, 2023 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm -
Michaela Bronstein (Stanford): On Crimes For All Humanity: Revolution and the Modern Novel
April 20, 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Past Events
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Jini Kim Watson (NYU), "Killing Communists: Literature, Film and the Making of the Post-Cold War"
September 22, 2021 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
Liandra Sy WIP: "Vegetable Figures: Humanist Fantasies of Plant Proportions in Richard Ligon's 'A True and Exact History of Barbados' (1657)"
May 11, 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Julie Beth Napolin Workshop
May 5, 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Neferti Tadiar (Barnard) on "Remaindered Life"
April 13, 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Jennifer S. Ponce de León Book Launch: "Another Aesthetics is Possible"
April 6, 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 -
David Buchanan WIP: "Reproducing Windrush: Labor Migration, Domesticity, and Social Reproduction on the British Stage"
March 16, 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Julie Beth Napolin (The New School)
March 2, 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
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