The Atlantic World Research Network
Sponsored Speakers |
The Atlantic World Research Network sponsors and co-sponsors presentations by distinguished visitors to UNCG, some planned by the Network itself, others by allied departments and units. We invite inquiries to awrn@uncg.edu from those wishing to bring a speaker or presenter to campus whose research or creative activity addresses the transatlantic exchange—in the humanities, the social sciences, the natural sciences, or the arts. Please provide a CV for the proposed visitor, along with a brief (100-250-word) description of his or her presentation. Preference given to presentations whose likely transatlantic or circumatlantic connections are substantial rather than incidental.
Upcoming Atlantic World Speakers and Presenters include the following:
Imaginary Nations: Transatlantic Modernism and Cosmopolitanism--Lecture by Gail McDonald, on Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 2-3 pm, MHRA 1215
Gail McDonald is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Southampton, England, and Co-Founder of the Modernist Studies Association
Wine and Cheese Reception to follow in "Humanities Faculty Lounge," 3rd Floor MHRA (aka "Round Humanities Lounge--does it rotate?")
Gail McDonald is is the author of many published articles and two books: Learning to be Modern: Pound, Eliot, and the American University (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993) and American Literature and Culture, 1900-1960 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006); and she is nearing completion of a third book, Collaborative Sin: American Naturalism and the Languages of Responsibility. She is Co-Founder and Past President of the Modernist Studies Association, and a former member of the UNCG English Department.
Recent Speakers:
At the George Herbert’s Travels Conference, October 9-11, 2008
--Mark Strand, Columbia University, 1991 U. S. Poet Laureate, Winner 1999
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry—Reading his Poetry
Thursday, October 9, 7:30 pm, Sullivan Science Auditorium
--Carl Phillips, Washington University, Chancellor, American Academy of Poets—Reading his Poetry
Thursday, October 9, 7:30 pm, Sullivan Science Auditorium
--Judith Maltby, Chaplain and Fellow in History, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Friday, October 10, 11:30 am-12:30 pm, Maple Room, EUC
--Elizabeth Clarke, Lecturer in Renaissance Literature, University of
Warwick
Friday, October 10, 3:15-4:15 pm, Maple Room, EUC
--Richard Strier, Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago
Saturday, October 11, 11 am-12 pm, Maple Room, EUC
See http://www.uncg.edu/eng/george_herbert/ for details
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Silenced Histories: Enslaved Women, the Archive and Power in the Urban Atlantic World --WGS Lecture by Dr. Marisa Fuentes on Thursday Nov. 6 at 4PM - Alumni House.
Marisa J. Fuentes completed her Ph.D. in the Department of African American Studies at University of California, Berkeley in July of 2007. Her work explores the spatial, historical, and symbolic confinement enslaved women experienced in two eighteenth-century British Atlantic port cities: Bridgetown, Barbados and Charleston, South Carolina. Fuentes work brings together critical historiography, historical geography, anthropology and black feminist theory to analyze enslaved women in the urban Atlantic. Her other research interests include studies of power and sexuality, postcolonial studies, and histories of the African Diaspora.
Archival power operates to silence sources in which enslaved women are found. Available colonial sources are fragmented and mired in a language which sexualized enslaved women's bodies, appraised their economic viability, and when criminalized, confined their memories into the wretched and untamable. In this talk archival power is illuminated as it maneuvers through narratives of the most visible of particular slave societies, and the most invisible. From a brothel owner in Bridgetown, Barbados to women in flight in Charleston, South Carolina, this talk discusses the silences in the records and the ways in which some historians of female slavery have overlooked how the nature of the archive prevents us from articulating the many facets of enslaved women's lives.
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Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi will speak in MHRA 1215 on Friday, 21 November at 2:00p.m. "The Woman-Girl in/at War in African Women's Writing" (click here to view flyer)