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Seminars

Don’t Stop Talking About Palestine

Organizer: Michiel Bot

People protesting the Israeli genocide against the Palestinians have been confronted with an enormous amount of censorship, ranging from the systematic murder of Palestinian journalists, university... more

Where are the New Sex Wars?

Organizer: Micol Bez

While the tensions within radical 1970-80 feminism(s) are often articulated in the belligerent vocabulary of the Sex Wars, post-#metoo feminism seems to fish in another —more liberal— conceptual pool... more

Caribbean Fiction and the Environment

Organizer: Carine Mardorossian

The environment in fiction is often discussed as a backdrop or "setting" that complements or reinforces characterization. This seminar will instead foreground this traditional background and explore... more

Alternate Relationalities

Organizer: Shanna Killeen

In an October 2021 interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, J. D. Vance responded to critics who, in Carlson’s words, “went completely bananas” over his claim that to be childless is to have no “... more

The Textuality of Contemporary (Body) Horror

Organizer: Noah Terrell

Despite its long and varied history, the infamous subgenre of body horror didn’t gain critical currency until the 1986 January/February volume of the journal Screen. Indeed, it was in this special... more

World literature as a mode of doing and experiencing

Organizer: Bilin Liu

David Damrosch (2003) describes world literature as “a mode of circulation and of reading” (5) and “writing that gains in translation” (281). This perspective has long dominated the discourse on... more

Ghost Figures in World Literature

Organizer: Ido Fuchs

A ghost, Avery Gordon writes, “has a real presence and demands its due, your attention” (2008, Ghostly Matters). To answer this demand, our seminar invites submissions that turn their attention to... more

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