The spring 2019 conference will be at the University of Pittsburgh, from April 5-6.
The event schedule is listed below. Events are free to the public and in the Cathedral of Learning at the Humanities Center (Room 602).
Friday, April 5, 2019
1 – 1:50 PM, Jason Fitzgerald, University of Pittsburgh, “Making Humans, Making Humanism: History and Universalism on Amiri Baraka’s Black Nationalist Stage”
2 – 2:50 PM, Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh, “Wishful Thinking: The End of Sovereignty”
3 – 3:50 PM, Gavin Steingo, Princeton University, “Reinterpreting Culture with Hildred Geertz”
4 – 4:50 PM, Margaret Ferguson, UC Davis, “Unquenchable Myths of Hymen in Hymenoplasty Surgery, Crowd Virginity Testing, and Other Social Sites Present and Past”
5 – 5:50 PM, Annette Damayanti Lienau, Harvard University, “Islamic Egalitarianism and (French) Orientalism: Re-reading the ‘Margins’ of the ‘Muslim World'”
Saturday, April 6
9 – 9:50 AM, Bruce Robbins, Columbia University, “Single? Great? Collective? Frederic Jameson’s World History”
10 – 10:50 AM, Piotr Gwiazda, University of Pittsburgh, “Ghosts and Anchors: Translingualism in Contemporary US Poetry”
11 – 11:50 AM, Bécquer Seguin, The Johns Hopkins University, “Imagination Burning: On Lorca’s Anti-Colonialism”
1 – 1:50 PM, Kara Keeling, University of Chicago, “Queer Times, Black Futures”
2 – 2:50 PM, Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College, “Indigeneity, ‘Americanity, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Romance with Settler-Colonial Capitalism”
3 – 3:50 PM, Reading by Dawn Lundy Martin, University of Pittsburgh
4 – 4:50 PM, In Memoriam, Joseph A. Buttigieg
