Main Library, rm. 220 Friday, March 1, 2019, 9:45am-4:30pm After transforming their dissertations into a first book, many professors turn to a second book project to extend their interest in their field of research and even to clarify their career…
LUCY ELLIS LOUNGE, 1080 FOREIGN LANGUAGE BUILDING. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2018 9:45-5:00 PM This symposium takes up the developing interest in studying the relation between American economics and literary history. Literary scholars have been lately considering such issues as capital, credit,…
November 3-4, 2017, various locations Trowbridge is co-sponsoring Speculative Futures, a series of events that aim at stimulating conversation about technology and the arts. More information about the series, including a schedule with event-locations and presenters, can be found at…
Friday, October 6, 2017 9:45-5:00 pm, 405 Illini Union This symposium addresses the complexities and rewards of a renewed examination of Reconstruction. The subject of numerous historical reappraisals, our colloquy discusses the challenge of reimagining the literary history and cultural…
Monday, November 13, 2017 3:30 pm, location TBD Amanda Gaiely (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) will speak on scholarly editing in a time of political uncertainty, as a part of the SourceLab Forum series and IPRH. Amanda Gailey is Associate Professor of the…
Thursday, September 21, 6:30 pm, Krannert Center’s Colwell Playhouse Trowbridge is co-sponsoring a reading by George Saunders, whose first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, was published to critical acclaim in 2017, at the Pygmalion Festival. The reading is free, but attendees…
Date: October 10, 2014, Time and Location Forthcoming Nathan Blake (Northeastern U), “The ‘Crippled Soldier Problem’ and Rationalized Images of Ability” This presentation analyzes the post–World War I discourses of disability, masculine agency, and human-machine systems primarily through the…
Non-instrumental disciplines, and the humanities in particular, seem increasingly marginalized in public universities, which have struggled in the past quarter century to respond to the collapse of state funding. Situating itself between the 150th anniversary of the first Morrill Act…
Novermber 12, Lewis Center Reading Room. 10:00am – Christopher Looby (UCLA), “The Literariness of Sexuality: or, How to Do the (Literary) History of (American) Sexuality” 11:00am – Lisa Brooks (Amherst College), “Locating American Literature in Native Space” 2:00pm – Jennifer…
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…