Author: Christian Saborio
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Winter 2024 Book Club Dates
18 January Roberto Bolaño 2666 1 February Roberto Bolaño 2666 15 February Roberto Bolaño 2666 21 March Auritro Majumder Seminar 28 March Anna Kornbluh Immediacy or, The Style of too Late Capitalism 11 April Anna Kornbluh Immediacy or, The Style of too Late Capitalism
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Scaffold
Congratulations to Victoria Hawco and Maki Salmon on the inaugural issue of Scaffold, the new open access, peer-reviewed graduate journal of the Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture (ICSLAC) at Carleton University!
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Gone With The Macho
Elio Rodriguez’s magnificent GONE WITH THE MACHO served as the basis for the cover design of From Havana to Hollywood. Here is the unmodified, original version of GONE WITH THE MACHO! Elio Rodriguez Valdes, “Gone with the Macho,” Las Perlas de tu boca, silkscreen on paper, 27,5″x19,5″, edition of 8. 1995. Courtesy of Elio Rodriguez and…
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Slavery on Screen
Original cover design artwork by Georgia Kaisary for From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary. (Inspired by the cover design for Fredric Jameson’s The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System.)
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Chris Faulkner Lecture in Cultural Mediations
Sarah Brouillette and I will be hosting Anna Kornbluh this spring! Anna will deliver this year’s Chris Faulkner Lecture in Cultural Mediations. Anna will be speaking about her new book, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism. 4:00pm, April 18, 2024, Patterson Hall 303, Carleton University.
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2024 Ruth and Mark Phillips Professor guest lecture
I am thrilled to announce that Auritro Majumder will deliver the 2024 Ruth and Mark Phillips Professor guest lecture. 5:30pm, March 20, 2024, Patterson Hall 303, Carleton University. Auritro’s lecture is titled: “(Third) World Literature and Decolonization: Humanist Internationalism and Contemporary Literary Studies”.
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Upcoming talk: “From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary.”
Centre for Latin American Studies, Cambridge University, March 14, 2024. https://www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/files/kaisary_cambridge_seminar_title_abstract_bio_2023.11.20.pdf
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Upcoming talk: “From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary.”
School of Media, Arts, and Humanities, Sussex University, March 13, 2024.
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Upcoming talk: “‘The lost unity of social life’: Law and Literature in the World-System.”
Postcolonial and World Literatures Research Seminar Series, Wadham College, Oxford University, March 7, 2024. https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/f7326874-4a94-4744-8530-4c9000bff645/
