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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Crystal Parikh (NYU, English)
October 16, 2013 - 5:15pm to 6:15pm -
Lydie Moudileno (Penn, French Studies)
October 7, 2013 - 5:15pm to 6:15pm -
"The Return of the Mercedes: Upward Mobility, The Good Life, and Nigerian Video Film"
Lindsey Green-Simms (American University, Literature)September 24, 2013 - 5:15pm to 6:15pm -
Welcome Gathering for all Latitudes participants
September 17, 2013 - 5:15pm to 6:15pm -
Marina Bilbija (Penn English) work-in-progress.
April 8, 2013 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm -
David Kazanjian (Penn English) work-in-progress
March 25, 2013 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm -
Selections from "Between Africa and India: thinking comparatively across the western Indian Ocean," "Muslim politics in postcolonial Kenya: negotiating knowledge on the double-periphery" and Philosophizing Mombasa to be pre-circulated.
Kai Kresse (Zentrum Moderner Berlin, Columbia MESAAS)February 25, 2013 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm -
New Directions in Caribbean Studies
Deborah Thomas (Penn Anthropology) and Lewis Gordon (Temple Philosophy, Center for Afro-Jewish Studies) with Rachel Ellis Neyra (Penn English)February 4, 2013 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm -
Work-in-Progress by Yumi Lee, Penn. Tentative title: "From the 38th Parallel to the Rio Grande: Genealogies of U.S. Empire in Rolando Hinojosa's Klail City Death Trip Series".
November 26, 2012 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm -
Susan Z.Andrade (UPitt) discusses her latest book The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958-1988 as well as her recent article"Realism, Reception, 1968, and West Africa". MLQ 2012 (73:3).
November 20, 2012 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm