September 2013 - maenglish@lists.qc.cuny.edu

[MAEnglish] FW: The Black Atlantic @ Twenty
by Andrea J Walkden 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

Dear Graduate Students, Please see the information below about a conference taking place on Thursday Oct 24 and Friday Oct 25 at the CUNY Graduate Center (365 5th Avenue) to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Paul Gilroy's landmark study, The Black Atlantic. Queens College faculty member and MA instructor, Professor Duncan Faherty, will be one of the speakers at the roundtable on Thursday evening. The event is free and open to everyone. You'll just need to show a picture ID (your QC card is fine) in order to enter the building. All best wishes, Andrea Walkden Assistant Professor of English Director of Graduate Studies, MA Program andrea.walkden(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:andrea.walkden@qc.cuny.edu> English Department Klapper Hall, Room 604 Queens College, CUNY From: English department faculty and staff [mailto:englishdept@lists.qc.cuny.edu] On Behalf Of duncan.faherty(a)qc.cuny.edu Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 1:37 PM To: englishdept(a)qc.edu Subject: [EnglishDept 0578] The Black Atlantic @ Twenty [http://centerforthehumanities.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2…] Oct 24, 2013 & Oct 25, 2013 (All Day) | Conference The Black Atlantic @ Twenty Herman Bennett<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/herman-bennett> Jacqueline Brown<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/jacqueline-brown> Susan Buck-Morss<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/susan-buck-morss> Tina Campt<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/tina-campt> Kandice Chuh<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/kandice-chuh> Duncan Faherty<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/duncan-faherty> Sujatha Fernandes<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/sujatha-fernandes> Ruth Wilson Gilmore<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/ruth-wilson-gilmore> Paul Gilroy<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/paul-gilroy> Eric Lott<http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/eric-lott> Stephan Palmié <http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/stephan-palmi%C3%A9> Robert Fitzgerald Reid-Pharr <http://centerforthehumanities.org/speaker/robert-fitzgerald-reid-pharr> Keynote: Paul Gilroy, English, King's College, London. Twenty years after the publication of Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), scholarship no longer simply posits the relationship between blackness and modernity as an irreconcilable problem. Though Gilroy posited The Black Atlantic as a 'heuristic' work, his ideas engendered debates in history, anthropology, and literary studies as well as political thought and philosophy-areas once perceived as the exclusive domain of an organic and hermetically sealed Western tradition. The Black Atlantic @ Twenty symposium (BA@20) aims to explore how Gilroy's insistence that blackness figures as a constitutive element of modernity has effected a lasting transformation in knowledge production. Thursday, October 24 In the wake of The Black Atlantic: Pedagogy and Practice 5:30-7:00pm, Elebash Recital Hall In this roundtable discussion, faculty from various programs at CUNY will ask how their own scholarly practices have been changed by the work of Paul Gilroy and his many students. Specifically, they will examine the ways that Gilroy's anti-nationalist analyses have-or have not-disrupted common practices within traditional disciplines. Drawing on courses taught in a variety of departments in the Fall 2013, Herman Bennett, Jacqueline Brown, Susan Buck-Morss, Kandice Chuh, Duncan Faherty, Sujatha Fernandes, Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Robert Reid-Pharr will ask whether it is possible to produce innovative work around race, colonization, cosmopolitanism, and imperialism while also continuing to privilege traditional modes of intellectual inquiry. They will also begin a conversation about how the Graduate Center community might begin to restructure its basic research and pedagogical practices. Friday, October 25 10:00-11:00am: Stephan Palmié, For Reasons of History: Anthropology and the Black Atlantic, The Skylight Room, 9100 11:30am-12:30pm: Tina Campt, Rhizomorphs, Fractals and Other Formalities: A Black Atlantic Mixtape, The Skylight Room, 9100 2:30-3:30pm: Eric Lott, Open Letters, The Skylight Room, 9100 4:00-6:00pm: Paul Gilroy, The Half-Life of the Black Atlantic, Proshansky Auditorium Cosponsored by The Academic Research Collaborative, the Certificate Program in American Studies, the Caribbean Epistemologies Seminar in the Humanities, IRADAC, and the Revolutionizing American Studies Initiative.

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[MAEnglish] Office hours and Graduate Conference Information
by Andrea Walkden 24 Sep '13

24 Sep '13

Dear Graduate Students, Just a quick note to let you know that my office hours will be ending an hour earlier tomorrow-Wednesday September 25-and so running only from 4:30-6:00. I'm sorry for an inconvenience. And below is a CFP ("call for papers") for a graduate conference at the University of North Carolina for any medievalists or early modernists who may be interested. All best wishes, Andrea Walkden Assistant Professor of English Director of Graduate Studies, MA Program <mailto:andrea.walkden@qc.cuny.edu> andrea.walkden(a)qc.cuny.edu English Department Klapper Hall, Room 604 Queens College, CUNY "Making Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Literary Culture" The literature and culture of the late medieval and early modern periods were profoundly affected by the expansion of new artisanal and scientific technologies-innovations and ideas that would lead to the production and consumption of new forms of knowledge. In both periods, knowledge was conceptualized across a range of intersecting disciplines, including natural philosophy, astrology, mathematics, medicine, art, mechanics, and cartography, among others. Literature embraced, criticized, or participated in these fields in diverse ways, often examining how these new forms or categories of knowledge influenced the locus and ontology of the individual and social self Collectively, we will investigate the ways in which medieval and early modern literature engages with scientific, technological and textual processes of making and disseminating knowledge. In addition, we are interested in discussing the creation and development of modern/postmodern technologies through and around medieval and early modern texts. As such, scholars studying medieval and early modern texts, performances, and art-or later reassessments thereof- are welcome. This conference is part of a three-year collaboration between King's College, London and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Previous conferences include "Shakespeare and the Natural World" at UNC and "Shakespeare, Memory, and Culture" at KCL. "Making Knowledge" aims to continue this collaboration and engage in critical discussion with graduate students from both institutions and from across the US. Suggested topics include: . Technology or science's effects on gender, politics, religion, magic, nature and preternature, economics, or epistemology . Scientific observation and innovation, taxonomies, and literary form . Transmission of texts . Mechanics in literature and performance . Medicine, technology, alchemy, humours and prostheses of bodies in texts . The position of the self within material, vitalistic, or atomistic conceptions of the cosmos . Boundaries between the human and the machine . Nature versus artifice . The effect of modern and postmodern technologies on the dissemination and evolution of medieval and early modern texts . Medieval, early modern and postmodern intersections of text and technology . Genre and technology Dr. Pamela Smith, a cultural historian at Columbia University, will deliver the keynote titled "From Matter to Ideas: Making Natural Knowledge in early Modern Europe" on Saturday evening, April 5th. Dr. Smith's publications include Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science and Art in Early Modern Europe, The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution, and Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400-1800. We invite papers on these and related topics. Abstracts of 300-400 words are due December 1st, 2013 to <mailto:uncgradconference@gmail.com> uncgradconference(a)gmail.com. Participants will be notified on January 25th. "Making Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Culture" will be held at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill from April 4th-5th, 2014. Sincerely, Conference Organizer Katie Walker

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[MAEnglish] two Graduate Center events and a change to office hours
by Andrea Walkden 10 Sep '13

10 Sep '13

Dear Graduate Students, I hope that the semester has started well for you all. Attached to this message are two flyers for upcoming events at the CUNY Graduate Center which may be of interest. On Friday October 18 in the English Program Lounge (room 4406) at 4:00 there will be an "Information Meeting and Admissions Workshop" for everyone interested in pursuing a PhD in English, but especially African American and Latino/Latina students. If you're considering pursuing a PhD in the future, either at the Graduate Center or elsewhere, you should certainly plan on attending. On Friday September 20, there will be a panel discussion, titled "Before Globalization?," with leading scholars in the fields of early modern, race and globalization studies. The discussion, from 4:00-6:00 in the Elebash Recital Hall, promises to be lively and well worth attending. You'll see many Queens College faculty members there. And, on a less exciting note: my office hours tomorrow (Wednesday September 11) will be ending one hour early at 6:00pm rather than at 7:00pm. And my office hours on Monday September 16 will run from 4:30-5:15pm rather than at their regular time from 5:00-6:00pm. I apologize for any inconvenience these changes may cause. You're welcome to email me to schedule an alternative appointment. All best wishes, Andrea Walkden Assistant Professor of English Director of Graduate Studies, MA Program <mailto:andrea.walkden@qc.cuny.edu> andrea.walkden(a)qc.cuny.edu English Department Klapper Hall, Room 604 Queens College, CUNY

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