Lectures and Conferences
Roundtable Beyond Creolization and Créolité: New Directions in Critical Caribbean Studies
Monday November 14, 2011
Pane Room, Alexander Library
3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Participants:
Anny Dominique Curtius (French & Italian, University of Iowa)
Aisha Khan (Anthropology, New York University)
Moderators: Yarimar Bonilla (Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Anthropology, Rutgers) and Yolanda Martínez San Miguel (Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Comparative Literature, Rutgers)
Sponsored by:
The Office of the Dean of the School of Art and Sciences, the Program in Comparative Literature, the Department of Africana Studies, the Department of English, the Center for Latino Arts and Cultures, the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies.
Program in Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference
Keynote address: Professor Michael Rothberg (Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Friday, March 25 2011
The graduate students of the Program in Comparative Literature announce our upcoming conference Survival Logics: Narrative and the Margins. The conference will be Friday, March 25, 2011 and will include Professor Michael Rothberg of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as the keynote speaker.
We invite graduate student paper proposals that deal with survival narratives of any media or form and from any time period. We are especially interested in proposals that address multiple narratives and the ways in which different narratives encounter each another in linguistic, social, cultural, political and/or geographic spaces. We welcome submissions from all disciplines. The aim of this conference will be to explore and develop critical and creative narrative practices that move us away from patterns of exclusion, competition and dispute for territory. One of our guiding questions is: how can we think about the relatedness of literary traditions, cultural memories, histories and futures without eliding or overlooking key differences and the particular (dis)location and temporality of those positions?
Deadline for abstract submissions is December 20, 2010.
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Program in Comparative Literature Conference
Keynote speakers: Rob Nixon, U of Wisconsin; Catriona Sandilands, York U; Timothy Morton, UC-Davis; Ursula Heise, Stanford U.
February 25, 2011 - 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Open to the public.
Do current environmental crises, politics, and studies compel literary and cultural studies to revisit their usual perspectives on the study of nature? Ecocriticism names the emergence of interdisciplinary approaches to humans’ interactions with natural environments and non-human species in literature and other media. This conference will focus on leading research in ecocriticism addressing national, ethnic, class, gender, and disciplinary boundaries still permeating this field.
How do we talk about the representation of human/non-human identities and relationships, in literature, film, and other media? Although the relationship of nature to society or the individual has been always present in literatures across the world, and criticism has always indeed focused on it, do we need now a critical vocabulary that engages with new developments in fields such as environmental history, environmental anthropology, political ecology, environmental philosophy, environmental psychology, cognitive sciences, neurobiology, evolutionary/adaptationist theories, etc.? Have past and current world literatures addressed environmental crises or conflicts, and even thought positions that can illuminate our debates on ecology, environmentalism and post-humanism? Can we re-think the relationship between “texts” and the social/natural networks in which they are inserted?
Only since the early 1990s, mainstream literary and cultural studies have engaged with these questions. However, originally developed within the American and English academies, ecocriticism has been accused of exhibiting a pronounced tendency towards solipsism and at times, ethnocentrism, in its primary focus on English and American national literary traditions and ecologies.
The Conference “Cross-Cultural Ecocriticism(s): Waves and Undertows” will reflect on the gains and shortcomings of the so-called “third wave ecocriticism,” or the current rise of approaches attempting to go over pervasive national, ethnic, class, gender, and disciplinary constraints. Four distinguished scholars who in recent times have opened or advanced new directions in these areas have agreed to join us for the conference and shared their research related to the rise of postcolonial ecocriticism, the impact of new varieties of ecofeminisms and popular environmentalisms; the contributions and challenges posed by another emergent field: critical animal studies; and the rethinking of environmental aesthetics and ecological thought in/for the Humanities.
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Distinguished Lectures in Caribbean Studies at Rutgers
Distinguished Lectures in Caribbean Studies at Rutgers
"The Cult of True Oomanhood: Caribbean Women Sex the Bildungsroman”
Rosamond S. King, (English, Brooklyn College)
Monday, December 6 at 4:30 - 6:30 pm
Alexander Library Teleconference Center, New Brunswick, NJ
This is the fourth and final lecture series showcasing current debates and innovative scholarship on Caribbean studies.
Distinguished Lectures in Caribbean Studies at Rutgers
Distinguished Lectures in Caribbean Studies at Rutgers
"The body of the nation. Nationalism and sexuality in contemporary Cuba”
Abel Sierra-Madero, UNEAC, Cuba
Thursday, November 18
4:30 - 6:30 pm
Graduate Student Lounge (Behind Au Bon Pain) inside the Rutgers Student Center
126 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ
Talk will be delivered in Spanish with English translation.
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