The 45th Annual Edward L. Surtz Lecture in the Humanities: “What is at stake in the study of race in the early modern period?”
Monday, 2/22, 4:00 PM CST, to be conducted in an online format
Author or editor of ten books, Ania Loomba is the Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and an internationally renowned scholar of early modern literature, histories of race and colonialism, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and contemporary Indian literature and culture. She offers the following preview of her lecture:
“This talk explores in what ways we can advance the conversation about race in the early modern period at this moment both in the United States and the world at large. It will argue that the range of ideologies and practices about racial difference in the early modern world alert us against oversimplifying our understanding of racial ideologies and their complicated global histories.”
Registration details will be announced. For more information, contact Ian Cornelius.
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Faculty
- Long Le-Khac has been interviewed in The Economist about his recent research on pervasive shifts from abstract to concrete language in 19th-century British novels. The piece contextualizes this research, an analysis of thousands of novels from this time period, as part of the rapid growth and significance of digital humanities as a field.
Students
- Marcos Norris has a forthcoming edited volume, Agamben and the Existentialists, to be published by Edinburgh University Press later this year. From the precis: “The volume opens the lines of communication between Agamben and the existentialist tradition. Its chapters offer creative new ways of considering Agamben’s critique of the sovereign exception and other existentialist themes. What appears as the miraculous suspension of normative laws in Kierkegaard’s work may, for example, be interpreted in the works of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre and other existentialists as the death of God. This contrast alone hints at the various approaches articles take to challenge, complicate, or reimagine Agamben’s reading of the sovereign exception, which appears among the writings of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, Heidegger, Beauvoir, Fanon, Kafka, Dostoevsky and others in forms both theistic and atheistic. This original work brings Agamben into close conversation with the major figures of existentialism to reimagine his oeuvre in light of key existentialist themes.”
- Congratulations to Wren Romero and Emily Sharrett, who were selected as the Fall 2020 recipients of the Amber Gravett and David Tuma Graduate Book Scholarships in English.
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