20th-Century Colloquium
20th-Century Colloquium
The 20th Century Colloquium gathers graduate students, faculty, and speakers from a diverse array of disciplines to discuss all manner of 20th century Anglophone texts, including novels, poetry, film, critical theory, literary and cultural histories, and the like. We aim to foster a robust and engaged community of 20th century scholars at Princeton. Our events include lectures; works-in-progress from graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and faculty; graduate symposia; and Q&A sessions. We frequently invite visiting scholars from around the country to discuss their most recent or upcoming work. The broad scope of our colloquium allows us to host conversations about an extraordinary number of genres, geographies, and times, and we often collaborate with other colloquia to host scholars of mutual interest.
Past Events
2022 - 2023
This is an announcement for the next meeting of the 20th Century Workshop.
2019-2020
This event has been canceled.
"A Terrible Beauty is Born: Landscape and Postcolonial History in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood"
"Contempt in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room"
2018-2019
"Mr. Straight Arrow: The Career of John Hersey, Author of Hiroshima"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Forgetting, Knowledge, and Action: The Work of Gertrude Stein
Alice Notley Reading
2017-2018
Black Digitality
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"To 'Whistle / in the Fasces of Uniform Graphemes': Babel After Fascism"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.