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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WIP “Rewriting Vietnam: Fallen Fathers and Enemy Brothers in The Zenith.”
April 3, 2017 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm -
David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder, "Memorializing Disability: Contemplating Less Capacitated Alternative Citizenries."
March 16, 2017 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm -
Gen/Sex, Latitudes, Alice Paul Center, LGBT Center: Trish Salah, “Trans Literatures: Notes Towards Their Emergence.”
February 10, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm -
Jeanne-Marie Jackson
December 6, 2016 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm -
Latitudes Working Group: discussion of “What Remains of the Postcolonial?”
October 25, 2016 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm -
“What is World Literature?”
October 4, 2016 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm -
Viet Thanh Nguyen (University of Southern California)
On his new book Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of WarApril 20, 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm -
Chris Jimenez WIP
"Nuclear Disaster and Postnational Aesthetics in Gerald Vizenor’s Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57 and Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being"April 11, 2016 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm -
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