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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Panel Discussion on the Philadelphia Youth Curfew Law
Featuring Philadelphia Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell, Penn Social Policy Professor T.J. Ghose, and Penn State Ph.D. Candidate Vanessa Massaro. Van Pelt Library, Room 223, Meyerson Conference Room. RecJanuary 20, 2014 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm -
Work-in-Progress talk
December 9, 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm -
Screening of Red Ant Dream with Director Sanjay Kak
December 5, 2013 - 4:30pm to 6:30pm -
Screening of American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs with Director Grace Lee
November 18, 2013 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm -
Crystal Parikh (NYU, English)
October 16, 2013 - 5:15pm to 6:15pm -
Lydie Moudileno (Penn, French Studies)
October 7, 2013 - 5:15pm to 6:15pm -
"The Return of the Mercedes: Upward Mobility, The Good Life, and Nigerian Video Film"
Lindsey Green-Simms (American University, Literature)September 24, 2013 - 5:15pm to 6:15pm -
Welcome Gathering for all Latitudes participants
September 17, 2013 - 5:15pm to 6:15pm -
Marina Bilbija (Penn English) work-in-progress.
April 8, 2013 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm -
David Kazanjian (Penn English) work-in-progress
March 25, 2013 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm