The 20th & 21st Century Cultures Workshop and the Race and Pedagogy Working Group are pleased to welcome:

Kenyatta Forbes

to discuss

Trading Races

With Patrick Jagoda (Professor of English, University of Chicago)

&

Ashlyn Sparrow (Learning Technology Director and Lead Game Designer at the University of Chicago’s Game Changer Chicago Design Lab, Creative Director at Resilient Games Studio)

Monday, April 5 from 3:00pm-4:30pm on Zoom

The “pre-reading” for this event includes educational guides and a short video, all of these (and Zoom links!) can be found here. The 20th & 21st Century Cultures Workshop and Race and Pedagogy Working Group are also pleased to be able to offer a number of complimentary copies of Trading Races to people who are planning on attending the event and are interested in studying and/or playing with the cards in advance. If you would like to be considered to receive a free deck of cards, please email zbhughes@uchicago.edu on or before Thursday, March 25. Please note that the cards cannot be mailed to home addresses, and must be picked up on campus the week of March 29. People who are chosen to receive a copy of Trading Races will receive an email with detailed information about pick-up on Friday, March 26.

The materials are password-protected; please contact the workshop coordinators if you need access. If you join our subscriber list, you will receive passwords for this and upcoming events in our event announcement emails.

This event is free and open to the public. We are committed to making our workshop fully accessible to persons with disabilities. Please direct any questions and concerns to the 20th and 21st Century Cultures Workshop coordinators, Zachary Hope (zhope@uchicago.edu) and Zoe Hughes (zbhughes@uchicago.edu).

The 20th & 21st Century Cultures Workshop is pleased to welcome:

 Shirl Yang

PhD Candidate, English, University of Chicago

Artless Art: Postmodern Loneliness and the Aesthetics of Sincerity

Monday, January 25 from 3:00pm-4:20pm on Zoom

with respondent Steven Maye (Humanities Teaching Fellow, English, University of Chicago).

Shirl’s paper (to be read in advance) and Zoom meeting info can be found here. The paper is password-protected; please contact the workshop coordinators if you need access. If you join our subscriber list, you will receive passwords for upcoming events in our event announcement emails.

This event is free and open to the public. We are committed to making our workshop fully accessible to persons with disabilities. Please direct any questions and concerns to the 20th and 21st Century Cultures Workshop coordinators, Zachary Hope (zhope@uchicago.edu) and Zoe Hughes (zbhughes@uchicago.edu).

The 20th & 21st Century Cultures Workshop is pleased to welcome:

Tomal Hossain

PhD Candidate, Music, University of Chicago

“Neither Bengali nor Burmese”: Interrogating Rohingya Identification through Tarana Song

Monday, February 8 from 3:00pm-4:20pm on Zoom

with respondent Jim Sykes (Associate Professor, Music, University of Pennsylvania)

Tomal’s paper (to be read in advance) and Zoom meeting info can be found here. The paper is password-protected; please contact the workshop coordinators if you need access. If you join our subscriber list, you will receive passwords for upcoming events in our event announcement emails.

This event is free and open to the public. We are committed to making our workshop fully accessible to persons with disabilities. Please direct any questions and concerns to the 20th and 21st Century Cultures Workshop coordinators, Zachary Hope (zhope@uchicago.edu) and Zoe Hughes (zbhughes@uchicago.edu).

The 20th & 21st Century Cultures Workshop is pleased to welcome:

Noah Hansen

(PhD Candidate, English, University of Chicago)

“Representing the (Semi-)Proletariat: Eric Walrond and the Problem of Caribbean Class Formation”

Monday, February 22 from 3:00pm-4:20pm on Zoom

with respondent Kaneesha Parsard (Assistant Professor, English, University of Chicago)

Noah’s paper (to be read in advance) and Zoom meeting info can be found here. The paper is password-protected; please contact the workshop coordinators if you need access. If you join our subscriber list, you will receive passwords for upcoming events in our event announcement emails.

This event is free and open to the public. We are committed to making our workshop fully accessible to persons with disabilities. Please direct any questions and concerns to the 20th and 21st Century Cultures Workshop coordinators, Zachary Hope (zhope@uchicago.edu) and Zoe Hughes (zbhughes@uchicago.edu).

The 20th and 21st Century Cultures Workshop and Race and Pedagogy Working Group are pleased to welcome Kenyatta Forbes on Monday, April 5, 2021.