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Digital Culture + Media Initiative presents Kalindi Vora

Kalindi Vora, Yale University; author of Reimagining Reproduction: Essays on Surrogacy, Labor, and Technologies of Human Reproduction (Routledge 2023) and Life Support: Biocapital and the New History...

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Digital Culture + Media Initiative presents Aaron Shapiro

Aaron Shapiro, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; author of Design, Control, Predict: Logistical Governance in the Smart City (Minnesota 2020), “Platform Urbanism in a Pandemic: Dark Stores,...

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The Comparative Literature Luncheon Series: Nan Z. Da

The Comparative Literature Luncheon is a weekly informal lunchtime gathering of students, faculty, and other members of the University community.  Each week there is a short (thirty minute)...

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Writing in Displacement

The day-long literary event will feature four Sri Lankan authors uprooted by the civil war in the country. They will read from their works and discuss the challenges of writing from displacement. The...

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Center for Democratic Deliberation Lecture: Oliver Baker

Lunch will be served at this event. Please email Melody Gehlbach at mkg13@psu.edu to request a lunch. Nineteenth-century enslaved rebels and militant abolitionists understood slavery to be a war on...

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Faculty Invites: The Last Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson in the American Century

As a student and, eventually, professor, Norman Holmes Pearson changed the story of American literature, putting modernist poetry (especially by women) at its center. He was one of the founders of the...

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English Grad Futures Panel

“Expansive Opportunity: Internships and RAships Outside the English Department” Featuring Grace King, Javiera Morales-Reyes, and Sierra Parker This panel convenes scholars who have held internships or...

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Graduate Student Spring Resident Talks

Our spring graduate scholars, Daniela Farkas (Spiral Out: A Genealogy of the Coincidence of Opposites in Twentieth-century Art & Literature) and Tashi Namgyal (The End of the Priest-Patron...

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CALS Spring Symposium “Horizons”

The Center for American Literary Studies presents the 2025 CALS Spring Symposium.   11:00 a.m. “(Even) In Terrible Days, For the Love of Reading.” Presented by Kevin Quashie, Royce Family Professor of...

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English Hangout

Open to all undergraduates. Come schedule and chat with current English majors and minors. Free coffee, tea, and treats. The post English Hangout appeared first on Liberal Arts Events.

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“The Public Sphere of First Drafts”

This lecture will be followed by a reception in Welch Building. The shift of the basis of public life from slow and centralized print and audiovisual media to faster, ubiquitous, distributed,...

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“Insubordination: Anna Julia Cooper and the ‘Courageous Revolt’ against Jim...

In this talk, Shirley Moody-Turner discusses her biography-in-progress on Anna Julia Cooper, trailblazing Black educator, intellectual, and activist, who fought to maintain and expand Black access to...

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