Guest Lectures
Tuesday, July 2, 2024 – 2:15 PM
THE GREAT ILLUSTRATORS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
Prof. Anthony Magistrale (Univ. of Vermont)
Thursday, January 25, 2024 – 2:15 PM
“I’m a Luxury” – Embodied Consumption and Exhibiting Capital in Lauren Greenfield’s Generation Wealth
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schmidt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 – 8:15 AM
Across the Pacific: The United States and China in Historical Perspective
Prof. Meredith Oyen (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Friday, July 7, 2023 – 6:00 PM
The Birth of Southern Cooking: Food, Politics, and Mary Randolph
Prof. Christopher Hendricks (Georgia Southern University)
Wednesday, July 5, 2023 – 8:15 AM
The Rice Pie: Gender, Race, and Material Culture in the Old South
Prof. Christopher Hendricks (Georgia Southern University)
Monday, June 26, 2023 – 12:00 PM
Financializing Intelligence: Neural Nets, AI, and Economy
Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern (Technische Universität Dresden)
Thursday, May 11, 2023 – 12:15 PM
Race - The Theory
Prof. Geoffrey Harpham (Fellow at The New Institute, Hamburg)
Wednesday, January 18, 2023 – 2:15 PM
“Barren, Silent, Godless”: The Apocalypse and the Human Condition in Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Matthew Carter (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Friday, November 25, 2022 – 3:00 PM
Gods and Monsters: A Solastalgic Examination of Detroit's Ruins and Representation
Prof. Christopher Gullen (Westfield State University)
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 – 8:00 AM
“The Postcolonial Turn in Cultural Studies” (online)
Dr. Rimika Singhvi
Friday, June 17, 2022 – 10:00 AM
"Blackness and the Changing Diaspora"
Michelle M. Wright (Emory University College)
Thursday, January 20, 2022 – 5:00 PM
Uncivil Wrongs: Black American Song Deals with Racism
Prof. Steven Tracy (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Tuesday, January 18, 2022 – 6:00 PM
A Chemical History of Film: Kodak and the Manhattan Project
Prof. Alice Lovejoy (University of Minnesota)
Wednesday, December 15, 2021 – 8:00 AM
“The Postcolonial Turn in Cultural Studies”
Dr. Rimika Singhvi
Wednesday, June 30, 2021 – 5:15 PM
Of Temporality and Tamaulipan Thornscrub: Settler Colonialism and Speculative Fiction in a Trans-Border Ecological Habitat
John Morán González (Univ. of Texas at Austin)
Thursday, June 3, 2021 – 10:30 AM
Methodological Considerations at the Intersection of Southern Studies and Indigenous Studies
Dr. Gina Caison
Tuesday, May 25, 2021 – 8:00 AM
Protestant America?
Dr. Anja-Maria Bassimir (Obama Institute, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Wednesday, January 13, 2021 – 5:30 PM
Wars of the Worlds: Radio, Fake News, and Resistance in 1938
Minou Arjomand (UT Austin / Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
Friday, December 4, 2020 – 10:30 AM
The Great American Melting Pot?: Assimilation and Ethnic Identity in the United States
Dr. Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson (Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum, Bremerhaven)
Tuesday, January 14, 2020 – 8:15 PM
Policing the US-Mexico Border, Policing the Brown Body: The Mexican American Experience
Jason Sae-Saue (Southern Methodist University)