Colloquium Series Fall 2006
| Monday, September 11 | Panel | "Has Anything Changed? Critical
Theory after 9/11"
Behrooz Ghamari, History & Sociology, UIUC Jim Hansen, English, UIUC Susan Hegeman, English, University of Florida Philip Wegner, English, University of Florida |
| Background Reading: | TBA | |
| Time and Place: | 8 pm, Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor | |
| Monday, October 2 | Leon Chai
English, UIUC |
"The Historical Future: New Historicism, Current Historicism, and the Shape of Historical Time" |
| Respondents: | Trish Loughran, English
Mark Steinberg, History Ted Underwood, English | |
| Time and Place: | 8 pm, Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor | |
| Friday & Saturday,
October 27-28: 10:00am - 6:00pm |
Conference: | "Poetry, Politics, and the Profession: A Tribute to Cary Nelson" |
| Featuring: | Michael Bérubé, Lisa Duggan, Grant Farred, Walter Kalaidjian, Constance Penley, Andrew Ross, Alan Wald, and others. | |
| Time and Place | Friday: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm, Levis
Faculty Center
Saturday: 9:30 am - 6:00 pm, 160 English Building | |
| Monday, November 6 | Brett Ashley Kaplan:
Comparative Literature, UIUC |
"'Can't you see I'm burning?': J.M. Coetzee's Apartheid, Post- Apartheid, Holocaust Fiction" |
| Respondent: | Anke Pinkert, German, UIUC | |
| Background Reading: | TBA | |
| Time and Place: | 8 pm Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor | |
| Monday, December 4 | Ellen Moodie:
Anthropology, UIUC |
"Crime Stories: Insecurity and
Democracy in the Aftermath of War"
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| Respondent: | Stephen Hartnett, Speech Communication, UIUC | |
| Background Reading: | TBA | |
| Time and Place | 8 pm, Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor |