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English Department

  Americanist Speakers and Colloquium Series

 

2008-2009 Season


Xiomara Santamarina

Lecture:
April 24, 2008
"Reclassifying Group
Identity: 19th Century
African American
Chroniclers of the
'Higher Classes'"
4:00 pm
7191 HC White
NOTE ROOM CHANGE
Brownbag:
April 25, 2008
7191 HC White
Time: 1:00 pm


Keith Gandal

Lecture:
Sept. 18, 2008
Title: TBA
4:00 pm
7191 HC White
Brownbag:
Sept. 19, 2008
7101 HC White
12:00 pm


Michelle Elam

Lecture:
November, 2008
Title: TBA
4:00 pm
7191 HC White
Brownbag:
November, 2008
7101 HC White
12:00 pm


Ezra Tawil

Lecture:
April 2, 2009
Title: TBA
4:00 pm
7191 HC White
Brownbag:
April 3, 2009
7101 HC White
12:00 pm


Lawrence Buell

Lecture:
April 16, 2009
Title: TBA
4:00 pm
6191 HC White
Brownbag:
April 17, 2009
7101 HC White
12:00 pm


 

Other Groups

   

2007-2008

Roshan Sharma, "Envisioning Walt Whitman from a Sufic Perspective,"
                              January, 2008

Elisa Tamarkin, "Sovereigns, Subjects, Emptiness," October, 2007

Michael Elliott,"American Studies on the Little Bighorn," September, 2007

2006-2007

Bill Brown, "Objects, Others, & Us," April 2007

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, "From Oroonoko to Jim Crow: New World African Theatre," March 2007

Rolland Murray, (young Americanist speaker) "Black Crisis Shuffle: Fiction, Race, and Simulation," October 2006

2005-2006

Posters from the 2005-2006 Season

Michael Warner, "Whitman and Civil War Religion," March 2006

Lauren Berlant, "Slow Death," October 2005

Lee Edelman, "The Politics of Time," a colloquium discussion of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, September 2005

Other
UW-Madison English
Organizations
and Events

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