Breaking or Building: The Curious Case of Postcolonial Digital Humanities [part of a mini-symposium on Digital Humanities]
Talk by Prof. Roopika Risam, Salem State University
February 7, 2014
12-3, with light refreshments
Memorial Union Building 336
Professor Risam has been a leader in the movements known as "#transformdh" and "#dhpoco"--efforts to bring the Digital Humanities into greater conversation with ethnic studies, postcolonial studies, and gender and sexuality studies. With her colleague Adeline Koh, she runs the Postcolonial Digital Humanities website. Professor Risam received her PhD in the Department of English at Emory University, and currently teaches world literature and English education at Salem State University. Her book in progress, "Oceans of Black, Brown and Yellow: Literatures of Global Solidarity," considers WEB DuBois as a progenitor for postcolonial studies, a key figure for global social movements negotiating revolutionary nationalism and internationalism.
For more information about Prof. Risam's work, visit her website.
This talk is sponsored by the Critical Race and Gender Studies Group via the UNH Center for the Humanities. For more information about this event, contact [email protected].
Following Prof. Risam's talk, we invite you to stay for "Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: Reassembling the Early Modern Social Network"
http://sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com
Christopher Warren, Project Director,and Co-PI, is Assistant Professor of
English at Carnegie Mellon, associated with programs in Literary and
Cultural Studies and Global Studies. He is interested in historical
approaches to literary analysis, the literature and culture of early
modern Britain, and diplomatic, legal, and commercial networks
in early modern Europe. His articles have appeared in English Literary
Renaissance, The Seventeenth Century, and (forthcoming) the European
Journal of International Law. Beginning in Fall 2013, Warren will direct
the Pittsburgh Consortium of Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Daniel Shore, Co-PI, is Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown
University. His first book is Milton and the Art of Rhetoric (Cambridge,
2012), and he has published articles on early modern literature and on
digital humanities research in PMLA, Critical Inquiry, Milton Studies, and
Milton Quarterly.
For more info on this event, contact Prof. Dennis Britton at [email protected].
For more information about Prof. Risam's work, visit her website.
This talk is sponsored by the Critical Race and Gender Studies Group via the UNH Center for the Humanities. For more information about this event, contact [email protected].
Following Prof. Risam's talk, we invite you to stay for "Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: Reassembling the Early Modern Social Network"
http://sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com
Christopher Warren, Project Director,and Co-PI, is Assistant Professor of
English at Carnegie Mellon, associated with programs in Literary and
Cultural Studies and Global Studies. He is interested in historical
approaches to literary analysis, the literature and culture of early
modern Britain, and diplomatic, legal, and commercial networks
in early modern Europe. His articles have appeared in English Literary
Renaissance, The Seventeenth Century, and (forthcoming) the European
Journal of International Law. Beginning in Fall 2013, Warren will direct
the Pittsburgh Consortium of Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Daniel Shore, Co-PI, is Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown
University. His first book is Milton and the Art of Rhetoric (Cambridge,
2012), and he has published articles on early modern literature and on
digital humanities research in PMLA, Critical Inquiry, Milton Studies, and
Milton Quarterly.
For more info on this event, contact Prof. Dennis Britton at [email protected].
Spring 2013 CRGS and Queer Studies Reading Discussions
All discussions take place from 12-2 (unless otherwise noted) on Fridays. Books are available for pick up in the Women's Studies office (203 Huddleston Hall). Email Courtney ([email protected]) to rsvp and for more information.
February 1
Roderick Ferguson, The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference
February 15
H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman, Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.
March 8
Ann Cvetkovich, Depression: A Public Feeling
March 22
Sharon Holland, The Erotic Life of Racism
April 12
Dean Spade, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law
April 19
Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman, Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race
February 1
Roderick Ferguson, The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference
February 15
H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman, Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.
March 8
Ann Cvetkovich, Depression: A Public Feeling
March 22
Sharon Holland, The Erotic Life of Racism
April 12
Dean Spade, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law
April 19
Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman, Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 12:00 in Hamilton Smith 101
How to Fear and Loathe the Other: Chicano/a Literature and the Pedagogy of Brown
Prof. Stephanie Fetta, Assistant Professor, Spanish, Syracuse University
Professor Fetta specializes in Chicana/o and Latina/o literatures from a hemispheric perspective. Chicana/o and Latina/o literatures are an expression of indigenous, mestizo, and the Euroamerican social fabric of the Americas. She deciphers social systems of oppression through these literatures, unpacking subaltern literary techniques resistant to hegemonic discourse. Her current scholarship looks at the role of shame as an emotive tool, socially cultivated to control marginalized peoples. Professor Fetta notices that shame is paradigmatic in Chicana/o and Latina/o literatures. She is developing an emphasis on the indigenous in Chicana/o and Latina/o cultural production. Professor Fetta has written on the indigenous in Chicana/o cultural production, the Mexican indigenous, the Filipino in Chicana/o cultural memory, and Chicana/o aesthetic and indigenous spirituality.
Graduate students interested in critical race and ethnic studies are particularly welcome to meet Prof. Fetta to discuss work in progress. For more information, contact Siobhan Senier at [email protected].
Graduate students interested in critical race and ethnic studies are particularly welcome to meet Prof. Fetta to discuss work in progress. For more information, contact Siobhan Senier at [email protected].
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 12:00 in MUB 330
Intersections and Cul-de-sacs: Theorizing at the Margins of Blackness, Womanhood & Disability
Prof. Theri Pickens, Assistant Professor, English, Bates College
The UNH Department of English is pleased to kick off its 2012-13 "First Fridays" Speakers Series with Prof. Theri Pickens, whose scholarship on African American and Arab American literature and in Disability Studies we have long admired. Her essays and poetry have appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly, Al-Jadid, Journal of Canadian Literature, Al-Raida, Save the Date, Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, and the ground-breaking collection, Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions. She is currently working on a book entitled Political Flesh: Narrating Black and Arab Embodied Experience in the Contemporary United States.
Graduate students interested in critical race and ethnic studies are particularly welcome to meet Prof. Pickens to discuss work in progress. For more information, contact Siobhan Senier at [email protected].
Graduate students interested in critical race and ethnic studies are particularly welcome to meet Prof. Pickens to discuss work in progress. For more information, contact Siobhan Senier at [email protected].