Events Archive

Spring 2022 Schedule

April 21, 2022, 6:00 pm: Kimberly Bain, University of British Columbia, "On Black Breath"

Spring 2021 Schedule

Thursday, March 18, 5:30 pm: Jesse Alemán, University of New Mexico, "The Ends of English"

Fall 2020 Schedule

Thursday, October 22, 6pm: Virtual Community Gathering: Black Studies and Black Politics Now

Thursday, December 3, Time and Zoom Details TBA: An Interview with Eve Dunbar, Vassar College

Spring 2020 Schedule

Thursday February 20th, 5pm: Bakary Diaby, Skidmore College, "On Romantic Work" (co-sponsored with the Long Eighteenth Century and Romanticism Colloquium), location TBA

Thursday March 26th, 5pm: Mary Dockray-Miller, Lesley University, ""The Old English Exodus, the afrisc meowle, and the State of the Field” (co-sponsored with the Medieval Studies Colloquium), location TBA

Fall 2019 Schedule

Student Workshops! (Ask us about these-- we'd love to feature your work next spring!)

September 26: Palmer Rampell: "Chester Himes's Flat Cops"

Date TBA: Field Brown: Title TBA

Fall 2018

Thursday, October 4:

Douglas Ishii (Emerson College), “Let It Come Down: James Iha and the Elsewheres of Asian American Joy”

Co-sponsored with the Theatre and Performance Colloquium

Thursday, November 8:

Patricia Ybarra (Brown), “‘Why is Such a Man Alive’: Rethinking Reza Abdoh in the Times of Donald Trump”

Co-sponsored with the Theatre and Performance Colloquium

Spring 2019

Wednesday, February 27:

Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State) and Katherine Rowe (College of William and Mary), “State of the Field”

Co-sponsored with the Renaissance Colloquium

Thursday, February 28:

Student Workshop for Christopher Spaide (Harvard), “Multiple Choice: Terrance Hayes’s Response-Poems and the African American Lyric ‘We’”

Co-sponsored with the Twentieth- and Twenty-first-century Colloquium

Thursday, April 11:

Rizvana Bradley (Yale): Title TBA

Co-sponsored with Theatre and Performance Colloquium

Spring 2018 Schedule

Tuesday, January 30

Richard Jean So (McGill), "Race and Distant Reading" @ Barker 114, 5pm

*Co-sponsored with the American Literature Colloquium

Thursday, February 22

Jonathan Psy (GWU), "Reimagining Medieval Deafness: Communication, Community, Deafnicity" @ Kates Room, 5pm

*Co-sponsored with the Medieval Colloquium

Thursday, March 22

Alexandra Vazquez (NYU), "Adapted City: Miami from the Spoils" @ Barker 114, 5pm

*Co-sponsored with the Theater & Performance Colloquium

Fall 2017 Schedule

Thursday, November 9

Graduate Student Workshop: Olivia Carpenter (Harvard) and Carly Yingst (Harvard) @ Barker 114, 5pm

Wednesday, November 15

Hershini Bhana Young (Buffalo), "The Privilege of Objectification: Miss Angola Landmine" @ Barker 114, 5pm

*Co-sponsored with the Theater & Performance Colloquium

Wednesday, December 6

Graduate Student Workshop: Elizabeth Weckhurst (Harvard) @ Barker 018, 5pm

*Co-sponsored by the Renaissance Colloquium

Spring 2017 Schedule

Thursday, January 26

Brian Herrera (Princeton), "The Incoherent Tradition of 'Non-Traditional Casting" @ Barker 114, 5pm

*Co-sponsored with the Theater & Performance Colloquium

Wednesday, March 22

Jennifer DeVere Brody (Stanford), "Animating Affect: Performance, Sculpture, Feeling" @ Barker 230, 6pm

*Co-sponsored with the Theater & Performance Colloquium

Wednesday, March 29

Reginald Wilburn (UNH), "Title TBD" @ Barker 211, 5pm

*Co-sponsored with the Renaissance Colloquium

Wednesday, April 5

Tavia Nyong'o (Yale), "A Race against Time? On Black Social Practice since the 1960s" @ Barker 114, 5pm

*Co-sponsored with the Theater & Performance Colloquium