Spring 2024 schedule
April 22: Victoria Saramago, Associate Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures at the University of Chicago
“Anthropophagocene: Energy and the Anthropocenic Imagination of Brazil’s Cannibalist Avant-Gardes”
Respondent: Edgar Garcia, Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago
Walker 403, 5:00-6:30 PM
April 29: Heather Glenny, PhD Candidate in English at the University of Chicago
“Even the eyes are real!: Plasticity, Preservation, and Authenticity in the Museum and Horror Film Body”
Respondent: Tien-Tien Jong Zhang, PhD Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago
Walker 403, 5:00-6:30 PM
April 30: Caleb Hermann, PhD Candidate in Music at the University of Chicago
“Outside, it’s nobody-ing: Mitski’s Impersonality”
Respondent: Anna Kornbluh, Professor of English at University of Illinois Chicago
Walker 403, 5:00-6:30 PM
May 13: Jack Chelgren, PhD Candidate in English at the University of Chicago
“When they switched off the light I felt like laughing: Slapstick Comedy and Vanguard Poetics in César Vallejo and Hilda Mundy”
Respondent: Harris Feinsod, Associate Professor of English at Northwestern University
Walker 403, 5:00-6:30 PM
May 27: Sthira Bhattacharya, PhD Candidate in South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago
“A Book of our Own: Texts and Publics of Caste Reform in Colonial India (1895-1935)”
Respondent TBD
Virtual Session, 5:00-6:30 PM
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Our meetings are open to the University of Chicago community and visitors who comply with University of Chicago vaccination requirements.We are committed to making our workshop fully accessible for people with disabilities. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the workshop coordinators.
Image: Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VIII (1923).