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Soiled Gods: Disciplinarity & the African-European Encounter in the Fifteenth Century
Herman Bennett (Professor of History, CUNY Graduate Center); Discussants: Megan Vaughan and Kristina Huang
- When: October 23rd; 3:00pm
- Where: The Graduate Center, CUNY (Rm. 8201.01)
- This presentation is part of the IRADAC Works in Progress Series- link to the paper
- Refreshments will be served!
Perverse Modernities, with Lisa Lowe and Jack Halberstam
- When: Monday, November 3rd; 7:00pm
- Where: The Graduate Center, CUNY (James Gallery)
Racial Capitalism Conference
Featuring Nikhil Pal Singh, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Robin Kelly, Cedric Robinson
- When: November 20th-21st
- Where:
On Conviviality, Affect and Politics
In a dialogue about theorizing affect and capacity, Jasbir K. Puar and Patricia T. Clough will explore the way they came to think about these concepts, and how their personal relationships, especially their friendship with each other, contributed to their thinking. What is the role of friendship in producing books, book series, special journal issues, and shared work with students? How shall we value this labor? How does academia encourage or thwart the love of work, and the love of friends? See more here!
- When: Friday, November 21st; 6:30pm
- Where: The Graduate Center, CUNY (The James Gallery)
Past Events
Taking Offense: Trigger Warnings & the Neoliberal Politics of Endangerment
A panel discussion with Lisa Duggan (Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University), Jack Halberstam (American Studies & Ethnicity, Gender Studies, Comparative Literature, and English, USC Dornsife) Tavia Nyong’o, (Performance Studies, New York University), Ann Pellegrini (Performance Studies and Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University), and Avgi Saketopoulou (Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York University). This panel will be moderated by Karen Shimakawa (Performance Studies, New York University).
- When: Tuesday, October 14th; 6:30pm- 8:15pm
- Where: 20 Cooper Square, 7th floor
Meet the Futures of American Studies with Director Donald Pease
A roundtable discussion and information session on the Futures of American Studies Dartmouth Summer Institute. Now in its seventeenth year, Futures is an intensive one week summer institute held at Dartmouth College in June. At this roundtable, Futures faculty and former CUNY Graduate Center participants will discuss their experiences at the Institute and answer questions for those interested in attending. The Futures Institute is divided into plenary sessions that feature current work from prominent scholars in the field and research seminars in which all participants present and discuss their own work-in-progress. Speakers in the plenary sessions examine the relation between emergent and residual practices in the field of American Studies from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. The Institute welcomes participants who are involved in a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields and who are interested in current critical debates in American Studies. More information on the Institute is available here.
- When: Thursday, October 16th; 5:00pm-6:00pm
- Where: The Graduate Center, CUNY (Skylight Room, rm. 9100)
- Refreshments will be served!
- Sponsored by the American Studies Certificate Program
Provocations and Reflections: Reading New World Drama
In New World Drama, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon turns to the riotous scene of theatre in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world to explore the creation of new publics. Moving from England to the Caribbean to the early United States, she traces the theatrical emergence of a collective body in the colonized New World—one that included indigenous peoples, diasporic Africans, and diasporic Europeans. In the raucous space of the theatre, the contradictions of colonialism loomed large. Foremost among these was the central paradox of modernity: the coexistence of a massive slave economy and a nascent politics of freedom.
This roundtable, featuring Donald Pease, Tavia Nyong’o, Monica L. Miller, Eric Lott, and Duncan Faherty, will explore the ways in which New World Drama opens up new interpretive horizons by considering how it informs scholarly conversations in a variety of fields and disciplines. Elizabeth Maddock Dillon will serve as a respondent to the roundtable discussion.
- When: Thursday, October 16th; 6:30pm-8:00pm
- Where: The Graduate Center, CUNY (Skylight Room, rm. 9100)
- Reception to follow.
- This event is sponsored by the Advanced Research Collaborative, Revolutionizing American Studies, and The Caribbean Epistemologies Seminar
