Latitudes
The Latitudes Working Group is coordinated and funded by the Department of English.
Housed at Penn English, Latitudes is a graduate reading group that spotlights issues of transnationalism, postcoloniality, race, empire, and globalization across time and space. We provide an encouraging forum for intellectual exchange across a vast range of disciplines such as literature, anthropology, history, economics, sociology, and gender/sexuality studies. Every year, Latitudes welcomes critics, writers, and filmmakers from the region and beyond to present and discuss their impressive new work. In addition to faculty from Penn, other past speakers have included Kandice Chuh, Anupama Rao, Meg Wesling, film directors Grace Lee (American Revolution: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs) and Sanjay Kak (Red Ant Dream). We also warmly invite English graduate students in their dissertating stage to use the forum as a workshop for their research in progress.
LATITUDES Graduate Reading Group for Empire, Race, Postcolonialism, Transnationalism, & Globalization |
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In Spring 2021, Latitudes launched a companion publication, Longitudes, an online forum for graduate students to publish short, peer-reviewed responses to our speakers and co-sponsored events. Please visit Longitudes for the latest posts by our members, an archive of our past events, and submission guidelines should you wish to write a post.
Past Events
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Work-in-Progress by Chi-ming Yang (Penn), "Racial Ornamentalism: Memory, Ethnography, and the Craft of Chinoiserie."
November 19, 2012 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm -
Readings on the Cold War, Civil Rights and Decolonization
November 7, 2012 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm -
Nico Slate (CMU) presents and discusses his book Colored Cosmopolitanism.
October 4, 2012 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm -
Nico Slate, Carnegie Mellon, Dept. of History
October 4, 2012 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm -
Introductory Meeting and Readings: Introduction to Brown Over Black by Antoinette Burton and "The Empire Effect" by Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper.
September 17, 2012 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm -
End-of-the-Year Latitudes Party
April 30, 2012 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm -
Exception, Universality, and the Subject of Rights: Dalit Engagements with Global Thought
Anupama Rao, Columbia UniversityApril 17, 2012 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm -
Thinking Difference Differently
Kandice Chuh, CUNY Grad CenterApril 16, 2012 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm -
Late Coltrane, Experimental Tonality, and the Critical Resonance of Black International Sound
Carter Mathes, Rutgers UniversityApril 10, 2012 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm -
Preparation for South African Poet Laureate Keorapetse Kgositsile's visit to Penn
March 27, 2012 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm