Talk: “A negative dowry”: Specters of debt and the family from the origins of the student loan industry in the United States By Britain Hopkins (Wellesley College, Sociology) Date: Wednesday 7 February, 2024 Time: 16.30-18.00 Room: G-160 Abstract: High levels of student loan debt are a cornerstone of higher education in the United States today. This talk provides an overview […]

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Talk: Shakespeare’s Turkish Sonnets? By Robert Stagg (University of Oxford, Shakespeare Institute) Date: Wednesday, 7 February 2024, 17:30 (reception at 17:00) Time: 1700-1830 Room: A130 Abstract: If Shakespeare became the English ‘national poet’ in the eighteenth century, he has spent subsequent centuries as an international poet. Yet scholarship about a so-called ‘Global Shakespeare’ has had comparatively little to say about […]

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Talk: It’s about time! Reflections on the role of chronology in archaeology By Jeroen Poblome (KU Leuven, archaeology) Date: Wednesday 7 February, 2024 Time: 17.30-19.00 Room: H-232 Abstract: In methods, practices and concepts, the discipline of Archaeology remains in full motion. Ever newer computational modelling techniques are being unleased. Ever more detailed methods of spatial analysis are being employed. While […]

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Talk: Totality at Trinity - Paranoia and the State in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony By Devin Daniels (Bryn Mawr College, English) Date: Wednesday 14 February, 2024 Time: 16.30-18.00 Room: G-160 Abstract: The cultural and theoretical production of the 1970s has been largely remembered for its resistance to metanarratives, skepticism towards totality, and embrace of plurality. At the same time, the […]

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Talk: An American Divide - The Making of 'Continental' Philosophy By Jonathan Strassfeld (John Hopkins University, History) Date: Tuesday 20 February, 2024 Time: 16.30-18.00 Room: G-160 Abstract: Western philosophy underwent a dramatic schism during the twentieth century, splitting into two adversarial camps called "analytic" and "continental" philosophy. While this rupture is commonly understood as an ideological divide that reflects cultural […]

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Talk: "If I cannot find a shady shelter and a companion for my penance, I shall never turn ascetic”: Modernist Asceticism in Rabindranath Tagore’s “The Ghat’s Story” (1884) By Apala Das (University of Toronto, Massey College) Date: Wednesday, 21 February 2024, 17:30 (reception at 17:00) Time: 1750-1900 Room: G160 Abstract: “The Ghat’s Story” (1884) is a short story written by […]

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Talk: Beyond Empty Homogeneity - Rethinking Serial Form By Kyra Sutton (University of California at Berkeley, Rhetoric) Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 Time: 16.30-18.00 Room: G-160 Abstract: Across literary studies, film studies, game studies, and critical theory, recent decades have seen a flurry of interest in “the serial”—a form dynamized by a tension between, to draw on Clare Pettitt, “the […]

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Talk: What is (Epic) Truth? Apollonius of Rhodes on the Amazons of Terme (Samsun) By Brian D. McPhee (Durham University, Loeb Postdoctoral Research Fellow) Date: Thursday, February 29, 2024 Time: 1230-1320 Room: H232 Abstract: This paper uses the curious example of Apollonius of Rhodes’ portrayal of the Amazons to explore the contested relationship between “myth” and “history” in learned Hellenistic […]

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