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Monday February 14: Amanda Leigh Davis

All, so we have not one but two workshops this week. The first is on Monday, February 14 and is cosponsored by the Contemporary Art Workshop.

Contemporary Art and Its Histories Workshop and American Literatures and Cultures Workshop present:

Monday, February 14, 2011 – 6:00PM
CWAC 156

Amanda Leigh Davis
PhD Candidate, Department of English and Literature, University of Chicago

“Still Lives: the Interobjectivity of iDollaters and their Real Dolls”

Download the PDF of the paper by clicking here

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December 1

Jonathan Elmer – “Bartleby, Pastoral, and Play”
Wednesday, December 1st
4:00 PM
Rosenwald 405

For our final event of the quarter, The American Literatures and Cultures Workshop and The Scherer Center are pleased to present Jonathan Elmer, professor and chair in the Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Professor Elmer will workshop his paper, “Bartleby, Pastoral, and Play.”

Click here to download a copy of the paper.

At noon, Professor Elmer will be discussing his book, On Lingering and Being Last : Race and Sovereignty in the New World (Fordham University Press, 2010) for the Scherer Center.

Classics 110
1010 East 59th Street
12:00 PM
Graduate students may contact Kristin Lueke at klueke@uchicago.edu to reserve a subsidized copy of the book.

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November 17

The Social History Workshop and American Literatures and Cultures Workshop are pleased to present Christopher Dingwall, graduate student in the Department of History, University of Chicago. Jonathan Schroeder will be the respondent.
Please click here to download “The Reproduction of Slavery and the Transformation of American Culture: 1863-1913.”