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…
Henry Henderson, Exexutive Director, Midwest Chapter, National Resources Defense Council February 10, 2011, Illini Union Room 210 Sponsored by the Trowbridge Office for American Literature, Culture, and Society; Sustainability Studies Initiative in the Humanities This event is free and open…
An American Literary History Symposium Friday, April 23rd Illini Union, Room 407 10:00am – Gordon Hutner, Introductory Remarks 10:15am – Elizabeth Anker (Cornell), “Mad Men, Faling Men, and the 9/11 Novel” 11:15am – Daniel Grausam (Washington U), “After the Post:…
American Medievalism: A Symposium Monday, October 6, Levis Faculty Center, Reading Room (1st floor) 9:30am – David Matthews (Manchester): “Importing the Middle Ages: American Medievalisms, Medieval Studies and the Legitimization of Culture”, Commentary by Bruce Michelson (English) 10:45am – Bruce…
Thursday, September 24, Illini Union Room 406 9:30am Susan Parrish (Michigan), “Rummaging: The Archive and Early American Literary Studies”, Commentary by Melissa Littlefield (UIUC, English) 10:45am – Gordon Sayre (Oregon), “Transnationalism and Early American Literary Studies”, Commentary by Brian Edwards…