Tuesday,
October 20, 2015
4:00pm-7:30pm
Humanities
108
The
ALS faculty invites all English Department graduate students and faculty to
participate in the inaugural ALS seminar symposium and reception. The event
brings together Dr. Vizcaíno-Alemán's English 610: Critical Regionalism and Dr.
Coleman's English 660: Race and the African American Novel to discuss selected
seminar readings with all attendees.
This
year's symposium facilitates an understanding of critical regionalism through
selections from Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk; Gilroy's The
Black Atlantic; Stecopoulos' Reconstructing the World; an
article on bell hooks and another on the global west.
Dr.
Krista Comer, associate professor at Rice University, former Western Literature
Association president, and leading scholar of critical regionalism, will cap
the event with a lecture titled:
"Thinking
Otherwise across Global Wests:
Issues of Mobility and Feminist Critical
Regionalism”
All
attendees are expected to read the material and are invited to participate in
discussion. The following readings can be found on e-reserve:
Course:
ENGL610; password: lobo610
- Du Bois, "Of the Black Belt" and "Of the Coming of John" from The Souls of Black Folk;
- Gilroy, The Black Atlantic (selection)
- Stecopoulos, Reconstructing the World (selection)
- Comer, "The Problem of the Critical in Global Wests”
An
additional reading can be found online:
- Christina Van Houten, "bell hooks, Critical Regionalism, and the Politics of Ecological Returns”http://politicsandculture.org/2014/03/09/bell-hooks-critical-regionalism-and-the-politics-of-ecological-returns-by-christina-van-houten/
Schedule:
- 4:00-5:45pm--Welcome and facilitated discussion
- 5:45-6:00pm--Break and refreshments
- 6:00-7:30pm--Lecture, Q&A, and light reception
Food
and refreshments will be available at the event.
Sponsored
by the English Department, the Center for Regional Studies, and the English
Graduate Student Association
Contact: Dr. Jesse Alemán
