Fall 2016 English Department Colloquium Schedule
All events are at 3:00 in KUY 410 unless otherwise specified
FALL
9/1 Department meeting
9/8
9/13 Donna Haraway, Professor Emeritus at University of California at Santa Cruz, reading and book signing, Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Cthulucene (co-sponsored with Revolution Books)
9/15 Lynn Itagaki, Associate Professor at Ohio State University, “Lives that Matter: The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion, Civil Racism, and the Vengeance of a Divided Country”
9/22 Concentration Groups meetings
9/29 Job Placement Workshop
10/4 Marie Alohalani Brown, UHM Religion Department, “Facing the Spears of Change”
10/6 Britton Brooks, “Anglo-Saxon Soundscapes: Elemental and Animate Creation”
10/12 6:00 Chadwick Lecture: Fred Moten, Professor at University of California at Riverside, “Insovereignty & Cinema”
10/13 12:00 Chadwick seminar: Fred Moten
10/13 3:00 Words @ Manoa Reading: Fred Moten
10/14 11:30 Creative Writing Workshop: Fred Moten
10/20 Department Meeting
10/27 English 625 student presentations (1)
10/31 Fiorenzo Iuliano, Assistant Professor of American Literature, University of Cagliari, Sardinia, “Specters of the 1990s: Seattle as archive city”
11/3 English 625 student presentations (2)
11/10 Ida Yoshinaga, “Indigenous Screenwriting Labor, Media Convergence, and a Digital Theory of Cultural Storytelling Expropriation”
11/17 Craig Howes, “Comic Periodicals in their Youth: The Case of Punch”
11/22 “Identifying and Working with Students in Distress,” with Joel Gaffney and Rebecca Cowan
11/24 Thanksgiving
12/1
12/9 12:00 Department Party