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.

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“Who will Dry My Tears?” Reflections on the History of a Lynching
Apr 17, 2023, 4:30 pm

Nola Romey, a Syrian grocer, was lynched in Lake City, Florida in 1929, and his wife was murdered by Florida police. Prof. Sarah Gualtieri revisits the oral histories and archival methods she used to write the history of these events. She brings to the fore previously uncited letters written by their surviving daughter in a reparative move that…

Location
Henry House 15
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Twentieth Century Workshop
Dec 2, 2022, 12:30 pm

This is an announcement for the next meeting of the 20th Century Workshop.  

Speaker: Elias Kleinbock, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton UniversityRespondent: Jon Repetti, Department of English, Princeton University Zoom link:
Location
virtual
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Twentieth Century Workshop
Nov 18, 2022, 12:30 pm
Please join us this Friday, November 18 at 12:30 pm ET (on Zoom) to discuss his dissertation chapter “Some Singular Providence”: Stephen Crane’s Dispatches from a Falling World. The chapter is attached below. Speaker: Jon Repetti, Department of English, Princeton UniversityRespondent: Elias Kleinbock, Department of Comparative Literature,…
Location
via zoom
Speaker
2022 - 2023
CANCELED: 20th C. Colloquium
Apr 2, 2020, 4:30 pm

This event has been canceled.

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Speaker
2019-2020
20th C. Workshop
Oct 2, 2019, 12:00 pm

"A Terrible Beauty is Born: Landscape and Postcolonial History in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood" 

Location
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall
Speaker
20th C. Colloquium
Apr 17, 2019, 4:30 pm

"Mr. Straight Arrow: The Career of John Hersey, Author of Hiroshima"

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

Location
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall
Speaker
2018-2019
20th C. Workshop
Feb 27, 2019, 12:00 pm

"Contempt in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room"

Location
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall
Speaker
20th C. Workshop
Feb 13, 2019, 12:00 pm

Forgetting, Knowledge, and Action: The Work of Gertrude Stein

Location
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall
Speaker
2018-2019
Contemporary Poetry and 20th Century Colloquia
Nov 19, 2018, 4:30 pm

Alice Notley Reading

 

Affiliated Institution: 

Humanities Council

Location
40 McCosh Hall
Speaker
2018-2019
Americanist Colloquium and 20th C. Colloquium
Apr 10, 2018, 4:30 pm

Black Digitality

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

Location
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall
Speaker
2017-2018
Contemporary Poetry Colloquium and the 20th C. Colloquium
Nov 8, 2017, 4:30 pm

"To 'Whistle / in the Fasces of Uniform Graphemes': Babel After Fascism"

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

Location
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall
Speaker
2017-2018
20th Century Colloquium: Post-War Realisms
May 16, 2017, 2:00 pm
Location
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall
Speaker
2016-2017