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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Jennifer Sternad Ponce de León
"Moctezuma’s Headdress & Zapatista Coffee by the Danube: The Decolonial Politics of Raiders of the Lost Crown"April 7, 2016 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm -
Kaiama Glover, Barnard College
"'Flesh Like Our Own': On Poverty and 'Other' Contagions"March 29, 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm -
Kirk Fiereck (GSWS, Penn)
"The Financialization of Health: Surplus Risk, Race, and Pharmocratic Reason in Global Health."February 8, 2016 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm -
Discussion of selections from Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy
January 20, 2016 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm -
Andrew van der Vlies
Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary, University of LondonNovember 12, 2015 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm -
Mukti Lakhi Mangharam, Rutgers University
"Democratic and Non-Capitalist Universalisms in Dalit Protest Poetry"October 30, 2015 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm -
Discussion of Readings
Andrea Smith, "Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy” and Teemu Ruskola, “Colonialism without Colonies: On the Extraterritorial Jurisprudence of the U.S. Court for China"October 13, 2015 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm -
Screening of "The Factory" with filmmaker Rahul Roy
September 30, 2015 - 5:00pm to 8:30pm -
Mixer Event
September 1, 2015 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm -
Work in progress talk, "Sarath Kumar Ghosh as Scheherazade: Hindu Heroism in Indian Nights' Entertainment: The Trials of Narayan Lal."
Monika Bhagat-Kennedy, Ph.D. Candidate, Penn EnglishApril 23, 2015 - 4:30pm to 5:30pm