The 20th/21st Century Workshop
is pleased to welcome

Lauren Jackson, Ph.D. Candidate in English, University of Chicago
on Monday, May 22nd at 12pm
in Cobb 219

Lauren’s paper, “Post-Cool Blues Scenes and Beyond,” will be delivered at the workshop. There will be no precirculated materials for this meeting.

Should you need assistance to attend, contact Nell Pach (npach@uchicago.edu) or Jean-Thomas Tremblay (tremblay@uchicago.edu).

The 20th/21st Century Workshop
is pleased to welcome

Rivky Mondal, Ph.D. Student, English, University of Chicago
on Monday, May 15th at 12pm
in Cobb 219

Rivky’s paper, “The Ethos of the Amateur: Roger Fry’s Ethics of Translation,” is available upon request.
Please do not cite or circulate the materials without the permission of the author.

Should you need assistance to attend, contact Nell Pach (npach@uchicago.edu) or Jean-Thomas Tremblay (tremblay@uchicago.edu).

The 20th/21st Century Workshop
is pleased to welcome

Oscar Chavez, Ph.D. Candidate in English, Chicago
on Monday, April 24 at 12pm
in Cobb 219

Oscar’s paper, “Art Spiegelman and the Jewishness of American Comix,” is available here and should be read in advance of the meeting.
Please do not cite or circulate the materials without the permission of the author.

Should you need assistance to attend, contact Nell Pach (npach@uchicago.edu) or Jean-Thomas Tremblay (tremblay@uchicago.edu).

Language, Translation, Historicity

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Monday, April 3rd at 4:30pm in the Community Room at 5733 S University Ave
Koritha Mitchell, Associate Professor of English, The Ohio State University
“Making Home & Making Citizenship—from Scratch”
Lecture; no pre-circulated paper.
More information available here.

POSTPONED TO FALL 2017
Monday, April 10th at 4:30pm in Location TBA
Kate Marshall, Associate Professor of English, University of Notre Dame
Title TBA
Presented by the Animal/Nonhuman Workshop

Monday, April 24th at 12pm in Cobb 219
Oscar Chavez, Ph.D. Candidate, English, University of Chicago
“Art Spiegelman and the Jewishness of American Comix”

Monday, May 1st at 12pm in Cobb 219
Sara Marcus, Ph.D. Candidate, English, Princeton University
“Disappointment, Voice, and Feminist Politics, Late 1970s-Early 1980s”

Monday, May 15th at 12pm in Cobb 219
Rivky Mondal, Ph.D. Student, English, University of Chicago
“The Ethos of the Amateur: Roger Fry’s Ethics of Translation”

Monday, May 22nd at 12pm in Cobb 219
Lauren Jackson, Ph.D. Student, English, University of Chicago
“Post-Cool Blues Scenes and Beyond”

Monday, June 5th at 12pm in Cobb 219
Ana Ilievska, Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
“The Sounds of Progress: Cities, Man, and the Machine in Eça de Queiroz and Luigi Pirandello”

Monday, June 5th at 4:30pm in Rosenwald 432
Christopher Nealon, Professor and Chair, English, Johns Hopkins University
“In the Dark with Brian Blanchfield” and “Value, or The Limits of the Literary”
Presented with the Poetry and Poetics Workshop

A reception to cap off the year will be announced at a later date.

For any questions or for requests for accommodation, please e-mail tremblay@uchicago.edu or npach@uchicago.edu.

The 20^th/21^st Century Workshop is pleased to present
“Making Home & Making Citizenship—from Scratch”

a lecture by
Koritha Mitchell
Associate Professor of English, The Ohio State University
2016-2017 Residential Fellow, Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study

Monday, April 3^rd at 4:30pm
5733 S University Ave, Community Room
Light refreshments will be served

Abstract: Even when African Americans embody everything the nation claims to respect, they can’t count on being treated like citizens. Black soldiers of WWI and WWII fought valiantly only to return to be lynched in their uniforms. The nation’s first non-white president was a loving husband and father in addition to being well educated and even tempered, but he was disrespected in unprecedented ways. Though their success will not likely bring them the safety and respectability it should, African Americans (both in life and in literature) seem to cling to all that purportedly makes one an ideal citizen, including the heteronormative nuclear family and its self-sustaining household. Drawn from Mitchell’s book-in-progress, this presentation asks, what does this pattern of investing against the odds reveal about African American culture?

Should you need assistance to attend, contact Nell Pach (npach@uchicago.edu) or Jean-Thomas Tremblay (tremblay@uchicago.edu)

The 20th/21st Century Workshop
is pleased to welcome

Ted Gordon, Ph.D. Candidate in Music Theory and History, Chicago
on Monday, March 6 at 12pm
in Classics 405

Ted’s paper, “The Buchla Box: Music, Technology, and Systems-Thinking,” is available here and should be read in advance of the meeting.
Please do not cite or circulate the materials without the permission of the author.

Light refreshments will be served.
Should you need assistance to attend, contact Nell Pach (npach@uchicago.edu) or Jean-Thomas Tremblay (tremblay@uchicago.edu).

The 20th/21st Century Workshop
is pleased to welcome

Dana Walters, Ph.D. Student in English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
on Monday, February 20 at 12pm
in Classics 405

Dana’s paper, “Clatter, Chatter, Tick: Henry James’s Late Style and Voicing Noise in The Wings of the Dove,” is available here and should be read in advance of the meeting.
Please do not cite or circulate the materials without the permission of the author.

Light refreshments will be served.
Should you need assistance to attend, contact Nell Pach (npach@uchicago.edu) or Jean-Thomas Tremblay (tremblay@uchicago.edu).

The 20th/21st Century Workshop
is pleased to welcome

Patricia Ticineto Clough, Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, CUNY Graduate Center and Queens College
Professor Clough’s celebrated publications include Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology (2000), Feminist Thought: Desire, Power and Academic Discourse (1994) and The End(s) of Ethnography: From Realism to Social Criticism (1998). She coedited, with Jean Halley, The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social (2007), and, with Craig Willse, Beyond Biopolitics: Essays on the Governance of Life and Death (2011).

Professor Clough’s pieces, “Ecstatic Corona: From Ethnography to Performance” and “My Mother’s Scream,” are available here and should be read in advance.

Monday, February 13 from 4:30pm to 6pm
in Cobb 403
Light refreshments will be served

Should you need assistance to attend, contact Nell Pach (npach@uchicago.edu) or Jean-Thomas Tremblay (tremblay@uchicago.edu)