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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Roundtable Discussion, "Postapartheid Modernism and Consumer Culture"
Profs. Michael Valdez Moses (Duke), Rita Barnard (Penn), and Jed Esty (Penn)October 25, 2011 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm -
"V.S. Naipaul and the Birth of Postcolonial Literature," by V.S. Naipaul Biographer, Patrick French
October 13, 2011 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm -
The Freebooters of the Manchester School' and the Caribbean 1848
Work-in-Progress by Chris Taylor, PennOctober 4, 2011 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm -
Welcome to Latitudes and Introductory Readings
Is Postcolonial Dissent Possible in South Asia?September 27, 2011 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm