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Talk: Unsettling Tricks: E. Pauline Johnson’s Mohawk Artifice
Talk: Unsettling Tricks: E. Pauline Johnson’s Mohawk Artifice
Talk: Unsettling Tricks: E. Pauline Johnson’s Mohawk Artifice By Cherrie Kwok (University of Virginia) Date: Thursday, January 30, 2025 Time: 1730-1900 Room: B206 Abstract: Sitting at the intersection of British Victorian Studies and Indigenous Studies, this talk examines poet-performer E. Pauline Johnson. Born to a Mohawk father and an English-Canadian mother, this talk argues that Johnson develops a metaleptic decadent […]
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Talk: What Would Grow From a Buried Bed? Nature and Culture in Antiphon’s On Truth
Talk: What Would Grow From a Buried Bed? Nature and Culture in Antiphon’s On Truth
Talk: What Would Grow From a Buried Bed? Nature and Culture in Antiphon’s On Truth By Luke Lea (Columbia, Classics) Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2025 Time: 1230-1330 Room: H232 Abstract: Reflection on culture and civilization sometimes pits nature against products of human activity and invention such as art, technology, law, and political order. Inquiry into the antithesis of nomos (law, […]
Talk: Redeeming Failed States: Allegory and the National Imagination
Talk: Redeeming Failed States: Allegory and the National Imagination
Talk: Redeeming Failed States: Allegory and the National Imagination By Ashwin Bajaj (UC Irvine, Comparative Literature) Date: Thursday, February 12, 2025 Time: 1730-1900 Room: H232 Abstract: My talk, “Redeeming Failed States: Allegory and the Literary Imagination,” begins by returning to the concluding section of Marx’s Capital in order to uncover two issues relevant to thinking post-coloniality: namely, difference and origin. […]
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Conference: Human Mobility, Migration, and Colonization in the Ancient Near East
Human Mobility, Migration, and Colonization in the Ancient Near East Dates: 22-23 February, 2025 Description: This event is part of the Önasya Arkeolojisi Toplantıları series, bringing together scholars from various disciplines, including history, epigraphy, philology, archaeology, and anthropology, to explore human mobility, trade networks, craftspeople movement, large-scale migration, and colonization in the Eastern Mediterranean from the Neolithic to the Iron […]
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Talk: How Chances It They Travel? Mapping Itinerant Theater in Early Modern Europe
Talk: How Chances It They Travel? Mapping Itinerant Theater in Early Modern Europe
Talk: How Chances It They Travel?: Mapping Itinerant Theater in Early Modern Europe By Emily Glider (Boston University, Literary and Cultural Theory) Date: Monday, February 24, 2025 Time: 1230-1330 Room: H232 Abstract: Itinerant theater has long been represented as a “chance” affair: troupes of “wandering” or “strolling” players performing on an opportunistic basis at various courts, cities, and trade fairs […]
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Talk: “It Will Be Like a Statue,” or: Place and Utopia in London’s Theaters
Talk: “It Will Be Like a Statue,” or: Place and Utopia in London’s Theaters
Talk: “It Will Be Like a Statue,” or: Place and Utopia in London’s Theaters By Madeleine Read (University of California Irvine, English) Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2025 Time: 1730-1900 Room: H232 Abstract: In 1988, London’s Royal Court Theatre produced a series by Howard Brenton billed as “Three Plays Toward Utopia.” Utopia is a genre with intricate and abiding English roots, […]