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.

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

 Robert Suits

PhD Student, History, University of Chicago

Ecological Apocalypse Looks Like This

Monday, November 30 from 3:00pm-4:20pm on Zoom

with respondent  Evan Wisdom-Dawson (PhD Candidate, English, University of Chicago).

Robert’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).