Latitudes
The Latitudes Working Group is coordinated and funded by the Department of English.
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 English 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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Book Launch: Ugliness by Moshtari Hilal
March 3, 2025 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Past Events
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Nasser Mufti, "C.L.R. James in the Nineteenth Century"
February 21, 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:30pm -
Vikrant Dadawala WIP: "What if Kafka Was an Indian Communist? Or; The Passing of Soviet India, 1942-1980"
February 7, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm -
Aaron Bartels-Swindells WIP: "Of 'Masks and Marx': Ayi Kwei Armah's Afrocentrism and Decolonial Aesthetics, 1967-1984"
January 23, 2019 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm -
Event featuring Prof. Mukoma Wa Ngugi on The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership
October 11, 2018 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm -
Aaron Bartels-Swindells WIP - CANCELED
September 24, 2018 - 12:30pm to 2:30pm -
Ania Loomba, "Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism, and Feminism in India"
September 20, 2018 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm -
Maya Joshi (U of Delhi), "Reading Sankrityayan's Twenty-Second Century today: Sleep of Centuries, Dreams of Utopia"
April 18, 2018 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm -
Mukti Lakhi Mangharam @ Latitudes
April 13, 2018 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm -
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