ELH Speaker Series – Lauren Goodlad, Rutgers

The English Department's ELH Speaker Series presents a talk by Lauren Goodlad, Rutgers, on September 28th at 4:15 PM in Gilman Hall Room 130D, Access to a password-protected copy of the pre-circulated paper will be available by contacting Sally Hauf at [email protected].

ELH Speaker Series – Timothy Bewes, Brown University

The English Department's ELH Speaker Series presents a talk by Timothy Bewes, Brown University on November 2nd at 4:15 PM in Gilman Hall Room 130D. Access to a password-protected copy of the pre-circulated paper will be available by contacting Sally Hauf at [email protected]

Conscience and Complexity Symposium

Gilman 50

Free to the public, but RSVP recommended. Email Nan Z. Da ([email protected]) to RSVP. Friday, May 38:30-9am: Breakfast Buffet and Coffee (for 35 people in hallway outside Gilman 50)9:00-9:45am: Nan Da, Introduction, "Conscience and Complexity"9:45-10:45am: Frances Ferguson, KEYNOTE, "Bets, Blame, and the Rationale of Reward"10:45-11:15am: Coffee Break (for 35 people in hallway outside Gilman 50)11:15-12:15pm: […]

ELH Speaker Series – Sarah Blair, University of Michigan

The English Department’s ELH Speaker Series presents a talk entitled, "Portrait v. Landscape: Visual Genres, Anti-Racism, and the Life of the Photograph," by Sarah Blair, University of Michigan, on October 3rd at 4:15 PM in Gilman Hall Room 130D . Access to a password-protected copy of the pre-circulated paper will be available by contacting Christeen […]

Lecture – Peli Grietzer

Professor Nan Z. Da present a talk by Peli Grietzer. The talk is entitled, "Poetry, Knowledge, and Computation," and will be given on Wednesday, October 16 at 2:00 PM in Gilman Hall Room 130D.

ELH Speaker Series – Penelope Geng, Macalester College

The English Department’s ELH Speaker Series presents a talk entitled, "Cripping Citizenship: Ablenationalism and the Racialized Privilege of Refusal in Timon of Athens," by Penelope Geng, Macalester College, on November 7th at 4:15 PM in Gilman Hall Room 130D . Access to a password-protected copy of the pre-circulated paper will be available by contacting Christeen […]

Fearless Speech: Radical Truth-Telling in the Auto/biography of John Swanson Jacobs

Talk description: For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs—brother of Harriet Jacobs—was buried in a pile of newspapers in Australia. Jacobs’s long-lost narrative, The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots, is a startling and revolutionary discovery. A document like this—written by an ex-slave and ex-American, in […]

Greg Barnhisel

Information forthcoming. See page closer to the beginning of the spring.