Modernism at the Beach

Associate Professor of French Hannah Freed-Thall (New York University) presents "Modernism at the Beach," a lecture that touches on queer sexuality and the balneary cultures of France as viewed by Marcel Proust. Gilman Hall Rm. 208.

Panel on Brazil’s 2022 Presidential Election

Charles Commons Salon A

Andre Pagliarini Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia Panelist Gladys Mitchell-Walthour North Carolina Central University Panelist Luis Rodriguez Stanton Nuclear Fellow at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation Moderator This panel features You can also join this session virtually: https://zoom.us/j/92628938660 - Meeting ID: 926 2893 8660

The World is a Theater: Apollinaire, War, and Nation

Professor Rentzou's (Princeton) talk, "The World is a Theater: Apollinaire, War, and Nation," will be held in Gilman 479.  Rentzou is the author of the newly published Concepts of the World: The French Avant-Garde and the Idea of the International (Northwestern UP, 2022) and of Littérature malgré elle: le surréalisme et la transformation du littéraire (2010). At […]

Lyric Whiteness: Thoughts on the Construction of an Invisible Category in Germany

Lecture by Hannah Vandergrift-Eldridge (U of Wisconsin-Madison) on 10/11 at 5pm in Shaffer 3. Since the turn of the millennium, the Anglo-American academy and culture at large has embarked on a much-needed analysis of race and lyric poetry. Driven by the work of BIPOC poets and poet-scholars including Claudia Rankine, Dorothy Wang, and Timothy Yu, […]