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.
Past Events
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Presentation, "Consuming Surgery Offshore," by Aren Aizura, Rutgers University
Co-sponsored with GenSex.March 20, 2012 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm -
Discussion of readings in preparation for the 'Transnationalism: A Useful Category of Analysis?'
March 12, 2012 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm -
Lunchtime Discussion on Publishing and Archival Research Methods with Meg Wesling.
February 29, 2012 - 11:30am to 12:30pm -
Presentation, "U.S. Empire and Queer Transnationalism," by Meg Wesling, U.C. San Diego with Faculty Respondents Heather Love and Josephine Park.
Co-sponsored by Penn English, Penn History, The Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality and Women, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, GASAM, and GenSex.February 28, 2012 - 4:30pm to 5:30pm -
"The Sound of Blackface: Race in Performance on the 18th-Century British Stage." Work-in-Progress by Ashley Cohen, Penn. Co-sponsored by Eighteenth-Century Reading Group.
February 21, 2012 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm -
Work-in-Progress by David Eng, Penn.
January 26, 2012 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm -
Slavery and the Culture of Taste
Prof. Simon Gikandi, Princeton UniversityDecember 6, 2011 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm -
Discussion on Global Southern Queer and Feminist Intersections
November 15, 2011 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm -
The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic
Discussion of Lauren Goodlad's forthcoming bookNovember 8, 2011 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm -
Meet-and-Greet with Lauren Goodlad, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
With a screening of Mad Men S1E6, "Babylon."November 8, 2011 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm