Are you a USist or an Americanist? This was the question that the U.S. Literatures and Cultures Consortium posed to the participants of the roundtable at our inaugural event of this semester. The subsequent conversation was a thoughtful reflection on what it means to be a scholar of U.S. literature and culture who wants to undo the hegemonic structures that underlie the nation. But what about scholars who aren’t even interested in the nation to begin with?
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Panel Discussion: What is a USist? (Or are you an Americanist?)
September 16, 2013, 4pm, 3222 Angell Hall
What is a USist? (Or are you an Americanist?)
An interdisciplinary panel discussion on approaches to defining and doing work in US/American studies across a wide range of historical periods, featuring:
Xiomara Santamarina, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, English, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and American Culture
Aaaron Seaman, University of Chicago, Department of Comparative Human Development
Frank Kelderman, University of Michigan, American Studies
Lisa Jong, University of Michigan, English Language & Literature
Snacks provided!
This event will also serve as our kick-off for the year, so anyone who is interested in suggesting a speaker, a topic of future discussion, or would like to present work this year will have a chance to contribute and find out how to be a part of the USists workshop this year.
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An interdisciplinary panel discussion on approaches to defining and doing work in US/American studies across a wide range of historical periods, featuring:
Xiomara Santamarina, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, English, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and American Culture
Aaaron Seaman, University of Chicago, Department of Comparative Human Development
Frank Kelderman, University of Michigan, American Studies
Lisa Jong, University of Michigan, English Language & Literature
Snacks provided!
This event will also serve as our kick-off for the year, so anyone who is interested in suggesting a speaker, a topic of future discussion, or would like to present work this year will have a chance to contribute and find out how to be a part of the USists workshop this year.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Doing Archive Research
April 17, 2013 - Room 3222 Angell Hall, 4pm
Panel presentation and Q&A on doing archive work towards and around your dissertation
Presenters:
Cat Cassel on: Philip K Dick and hassle with archive copyright owners
Dina Karageorgos on: Richard Wright, Sarah Wright, doing interviews, and losing your images
Jesse Carr on: The Arts of Citizenship project, and working with microfilm
Daphna Atias on: Emily Dickinson and finding what you didn't necessarily come to find
Ali Chetwynd on: William Gaddis and hunting down fiction's non-fictional sources
Chelsea Del Rio on: Karate Lesbians and lesbian feminism
Kya Mangrum on: Literary archive work with visual/photographic material
Panel presentation and Q&A on doing archive work towards and around your dissertation
Presenters:
Cat Cassel on: Philip K Dick and hassle with archive copyright owners
Dina Karageorgos on: Richard Wright, Sarah Wright, doing interviews, and losing your images
Jesse Carr on: The Arts of Citizenship project, and working with microfilm
Daphna Atias on: Emily Dickinson and finding what you didn't necessarily come to find
Ali Chetwynd on: William Gaddis and hunting down fiction's non-fictional sources
Chelsea Del Rio on: Karate Lesbians and lesbian feminism
Kya Mangrum on: Literary archive work with visual/photographic material
Monday, March 11, 2013
Visiting Speaker: Robert Chodat
March 25-26, 2013
Robert Chodat (Boston University, English)
4pm Mar 25th, 3222 Angell Hall - "Jigsaw Puzzles, Salesmen, and Cavell's Improvisations"
"I address Stanley Cavell’s recent memoir Little Did I Know against the backdrop of some of his philosophical writing. I'll consider Cavell’s challenges to certain entrenched conceptions of language, art, and action, and will focus particular attention on the idea of “improvisation,” which Cavell’s writing often thematizes and enacts"
2pm Mar 26th, 3184 Angell Hall - graduate student event on doing interdisciplinary research in analytic philosophy and literary study, and other occasionally antagonistic combinations.
Robert Chodat (Boston University, English)
4pm Mar 25th, 3222 Angell Hall - "Jigsaw Puzzles, Salesmen, and Cavell's Improvisations"
"I address Stanley Cavell’s recent memoir Little Did I Know against the backdrop of some of his philosophical writing. I'll consider Cavell’s challenges to certain entrenched conceptions of language, art, and action, and will focus particular attention on the idea of “improvisation,” which Cavell’s writing often thematizes and enacts"
2pm Mar 26th, 3184 Angell Hall - graduate student event on doing interdisciplinary research in analytic philosophy and literary study, and other occasionally antagonistic combinations.
Friday, March 8, 2013
Graduate Conference: Making it Work: US Thought and Culture Between Practice and Paralysis
April 5-6, 2013 - Room 3222 Angell Hall
Making it Work: US Thought and Culture Between Practice and Paralysis
Keynotes:
Paul Taylor (Penn State, Philosophy/ African American Studies)
Lisi Schoenbach (University of Tennessee Knoxville, English)
Making it Work: US Thought and Culture Between Practice and Paralysis
Keynotes:
Paul Taylor (Penn State, Philosophy/ African American Studies)
Lisi Schoenbach (University of Tennessee Knoxville, English)
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Lineages of the Literary Left
March 21-22, 2013
Lineages of the Literary Left: A Symposium in Honor of Alan Wald
See program here.
Lineages of the Literary Left: A Symposium in Honor of Alan Wald
See program here.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Visiting Speaker: Robert Viscusi
March 20, 2013 - 3pm, Room 100, Hatcher Library Gallery
"Her Hands Were Rough and Smelled of Dead Things: Louisa Ermelino's The Black Madonna"
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