A one-day symposium hosted by Johns Hopkins University Address: Studio 1 at the Study3215 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218  Program 9:00–10:30 a.m.New York, New York  Edward G. BerensonNew York University“A Hollow Icon: Why the Statue of Liberty Can Symbolize Almost Anything” Sara KippurWellesley College“Literary Exchanges in Wartime New York: Francophone Women and American Publishing in the […]

Fantômes afrofuturistes: Qui hante la nouvelle littérature antillaise ? Visiting Speaker: Corine Labridy (Univ. of Pennsylvania)March 4th5:30 PMGilman 479 Antillean literature has always been haunted — for instance, by long-lost venerated French poets, a forgotten glorious African past, carved traces left behind by Amerindians, the repressed memory of the plantation, and even by actual ghosts and […]