Americanist Colloquium

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Americanist Colloquium

The Americanist Colloquium brings together graduate students and faculty interested in exploring topics in American literature and in American Studies in general. Our scope is wide, open to all categories of critical interest and ranging, historically, from pre-Colonial America to the present. Past events have addressed questions of sovereignty, settler-colonialism, cultural studies, speculative fiction, legal studies, and more. We organize a variety of events—talks, reading groups, workshops, mini-conferences, film screenings, and symposia—with the aim of building a community involved in the relevant issues of the field today. Recent guests of the colloquium include Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Jordan Stein, Mark Rifkin, David Kazanjian, and Edlie Wong.

Upcoming Events

Apr 23
Americanist Colloquium
Sonya Posmentier, Department of English, New York University
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Title TBA

Past Events

2018-2019

Apr 29
Americanist Colloquium
Iván Ramos, Department of Women's Studies, University of Maryland
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Melting Modernities: Ice, Sound, and Revolutions

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Apr 11
Una Chung
Postcolonial & Americanist Colloquia
Una Chung, Sarah Lawrence College
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Temporal Pulsations: Tishan Hsu in New York and Shanghai

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Mar 14
Americanist Colloquium
Jim Casey, Princeton Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Frederick Douglass, New Orleans, and the Possibility of Editorship Studies

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Feb 26
Americanist Colloquium
Herman Beavers, Department of English and Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

"Something Else You Have to Figure In: the Ethical Dilemma of Unreliable Citizenship in Morrison's Home and Jazz"

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Nov 14
Americanist Colloquium
Tara Bynum, African American Literature and Culture, Hampshire College
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Speculative Pleasures, "The Archive" and a Pig Roast; Or, Who Are Obour Tanner and Cesar Lyndon

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

2017-2018

Apr 10
Americanist Colloquium and 20th C. Colloquium
Marisa Parham, Department of English, Amherst College
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Black Digitality

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Mar 06
Americanist Colloquium and Contemporary Poetry Colloquium
Meta DuEwa Jones, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Alchemy in African/American Poetry: Experimental Ekphrasis
Feb 13
Americanist Colloquium, Princeton American Indian Studies Working Group
Kyle Powys Whyte, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 12: 00 PM

Decolonizing Climate Justice: Indigenous Movements

Lunch will be provided.
Dec 05
Americanist Colloquium
Iyko Day, Department of English, Mount Holyoke College
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Afro-Feminism Before Afro-Pessimism

Please contact Kimberly Bain (kbain@princeton.edu) prior to talk to obtain copies of readings.

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

2016-2017

Apr 26
After the Future: Notes on Black Elegiac Feel
Nijah Cunningham, Princeton Society of Fellows
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

After the Future: Notes on Black Elegiac Feel
Feb 23
"The voice explaining at once formally and intimately": James Merrill's 'Cavafy' and the Poetics of Intimacy
Foteini Dimirouli, Princeton Center for Hellenic Studies
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

"The voice explaining at once formally and intimately": James Merrill's 'Cavafy' and the Poetics of Intimacy
Dec 06
Spies Not Like Us: Yellow Peril and the Fictions of National Security and Immigration Control
Edlie Wong, University of Maryland
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Spies Not Like Us: Yellow Peril and the Fictions of National Security and Immigration Control
Nov 29
Atlantic Speculations, Quotidian Globalities
David Kazanjian, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2016-17)
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Atlantic Speculations, Quotidian Globalities

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Nov 10
Americanist Colloquium: "Mad World Spectator: An Experiment in Literary Psychohistory"
Max Cavitch, Department of English, University of Pennylvania
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

"Mad World Spectator: An Experiment in Literary Psychohistory"

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.