Rolling Reading Series presents Samuel Kọ́láwọlé
Samuel Kọ́láwọlé was born and raised in Ibadan, Nigeria. He is the author of the novel The Road to the Salt Sea. His work has appeared in AGNI, New England Review, The Georgia Review, among others. He...
View ArticleCastles in the Sky
Castles in the Sky: Film Screening, Poetry Reading, and Conversation about Cross-Cultural Art Making Featuring: Pearl Gluck (filmmaker and associate professor, Penn State) Julia Spicher Kasdorf (poet...
View ArticleMarathon Read: Youth on Fire: Stories of Growing Up
Read, Listen, Eat! Marathon Read 2024 will be September 26 from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. in the Dewey Room (W043) within the Collaboration Commons of the Pattee Library. The title of this year’s Read is...
View Article“King Richard III: The Resolution of a 500 Year Old Cold Case”
When the University of Leicester Archaeology Service undertook the Grey Friars project, it was thought that the chances of finding the remains of Richard III were slim to none. Nevertheless, Turi King,...
View ArticleThe 2024 Emily Dickinson Lectureship in American Poetry presents Ilya Kaminsky
Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union, in 1977, and arrived to the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the government. He is the author of Deaf Republic...
View ArticleUnprecedented: Isolation/Communication
The Center for American Literary Studies “Unprecedented” webinar series grew out of the online-only days of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to “Unprecedented,” Americans during that period heard a...
View ArticleYou Are Here Exhibit
This exhibit is the result of a collaboration between students from ENGL 413 Advanced Poetry Writing and ART 455 Advanced Painting Critique. Earlier in the semester, students in ENGL 413 met visual...
View ArticleDigital Culture + Media Initiative presents Omedi Ochieng
Omedi Ochieng, University of Colorado, Boulder; author of Groundwork for the Practice of the Good Life (Routledge 2017), Intellectual Imagination: Knowledge and Aesthetics in North Atlantic and African...
View ArticleDigital 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...
View ArticleDigital 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,...
View ArticleThe 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)...
View ArticleWriting 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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