October 28, 2011, 9:45am – 3:30pm
211 Illini Union

• 10:00am – Deak Nabers (Brown), “Idle Violence: World War II and Aesthetics of Liberalism in the United States, 1941-1969”
• 11:00am – Erica Edwards (UC-Riverside), “The Other SIde of Terror: African American Literature after 9/11”
• 1:30pm – Viet Thanh Nguyen (USC), “Just Memory: War and the Ethics of Rememberance”
• 2:30pm – Jennifer Ashton (UIC), “Workerless Works: Labor and the Lyric”

This event is sponsored by the Trowbridge Office of American Literature Culture and Society, and is free and open to the public.