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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Selections from "Between Africa and India: thinking comparatively across the western Indian Ocean," "Muslim politics in postcolonial Kenya: negotiating knowledge on the double-periphery" and Philosophizing Mombasa to be pre-circulated.
Kai Kresse (Zentrum Moderner Berlin, Columbia MESAAS)February 25, 2013 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm -
New Directions in Caribbean Studies
Deborah Thomas (Penn Anthropology) and Lewis Gordon (Temple Philosophy, Center for Afro-Jewish Studies) with Rachel Ellis Neyra (Penn English)February 4, 2013 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm -
Work-in-Progress by Yumi Lee, Penn. Tentative title: "From the 38th Parallel to the Rio Grande: Genealogies of U.S. Empire in Rolando Hinojosa's Klail City Death Trip Series".
November 26, 2012 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm -
Susan Z.Andrade (UPitt) discusses her latest book The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958-1988 as well as her recent article"Realism, Reception, 1968, and West Africa". MLQ 2012 (73:3).
November 20, 2012 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm -
Work-in-Progress by Chi-ming Yang (Penn), "Racial Ornamentalism: Memory, Ethnography, and the Craft of Chinoiserie."
November 19, 2012 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm -
Readings on the Cold War, Civil Rights and Decolonization
November 7, 2012 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm -
Nico Slate (CMU) presents and discusses his book Colored Cosmopolitanism.
October 4, 2012 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm -
Nico Slate, Carnegie Mellon, Dept. of History
October 4, 2012 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm -
Introductory Meeting and Readings: Introduction to Brown Over Black by Antoinette Burton and "The Empire Effect" by Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper.
September 17, 2012 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm -
End-of-the-Year Latitudes Party
April 30, 2012 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm