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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Environments of Modernity Conference
March 22, 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm, March 23, 2018 - 9:00am to 6:30pm -
Environments of Modernity Conference
March 22, 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm, March 23, 2018 - 9:00am to 6:30pm -
Panel with Prof. David Kazanjian and Prof. María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo (NYU)
February 1, 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm -
Affect, Immanence and Politics in Latin American Anti-Literature
November 16, 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Adam Shellhorse, "Affect, Immanence, and Politics, in Latin American Anti-Literature."
October 13, 2017 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm -
Conversation with Dr. Ania Loomba and Dr. Melissa Sanchez on "Studying Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Earlier Periods: Lessons, Limits, and Intersections"
September 27, 2017 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
South Africa, Writing & Social Justice
September 25, 2017 - 3:30pm to 6:00pm -
Prof. Natalie Melas (Cornell) @ Latitudes, "The Rise and Fall of Postcolonial Critique: Reflections on Situatedness"
September 14, 2017 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm -
Brooke Stanley, "Eating and Environment in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction and Nonfiction."
April 14, 2017 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm -
Candace Barrington (Central Connecticut State University)
April 11, 2017 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm