Two Upcoming Talks: Latin American Media Today / Building American Indian Studies Inside and Outside of Academia

Two Upcoming Talks of Interest at NYU:

Latin American Media Today

NYU Steinhardt professor Juan Pinon, visiting scholars, and journalists will examine the nature and ongoing global configuration of Latin American media today. The panel will analyze new developments in traditional media and discuss issues of representation, diversity, and democracy. The event will be held on Thursday, Feb. 16, 5:30 pm at 20 Cooper Square, 4^th floor. For details, click here.

Building American Indian Studies Inside and Outside of Academia

Join us for a presentation by Dr. Ned Blackhawk, Professor of History and American Studies at Yale, and Dr. Theodore Van Alst, Assistant Dean of Yale College and Director of Yale’s Native American Cultural Center. All are welcome. Thursday, Feb. 23, 12:00 noon at the NYU School of Law, Vanderbilt Hall, Room 201. Please RSVP at cmep@nyu.edu.

via the NYU Minute e-newsletter

Upcoming Colloquium in American Lit & Culture, NYU: 3/23

The New York University

Colloquium in American Literature and Culture

presents

Jonathan Senchyne (Cornell)

Herman Melville's "Paper Allegories": Media, Intimacy, Dispersed Subjectivity

and

Cassandra Good (UPenn)

“The specious name of friend”: Representations of Heterosocial Friendship in the Literature of Sensibility

Wednesday, March 23

6:30 p.m.

13-19 University Place, Great Room

New York University

All are welcome!

Refreshments will be served.

For more information: www.nyucalc.com

Updated Schedule: French & American Authors in Conversation

FESTIVAL of NEW FRENCH WRITING
French & American Authors in Conversation

February 24 - 26, 2011

Hemmerdinger Hall
NYU Silver Center, 1st floor
100 Washington Square East


Curated by Olivier Barrot & Tom Bishop


In French and English. Simultaneous translation available for this event.

The conversations between French and American authors that constitute the seven one-hour sessions of the Festival of New French Writing will each pair one French and one American writer, confronting their respective experiences and ambitions with respect to literary creation. Each animated by an American cultural critic familiar with the literatures of the two countries, the dialogues will explore the singular qualities of each author, national similarities and differences, as well as the future of literature.

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Updated schedule. Authors biographies and festival details available at www.frenchwritingfestival.com

Thursday, February 24
7:00 p.m. Geneviève Brisac & Rick Moody (moderated by Chad W. Post)

8:30 p.m. Stéphane Audeguy & Jane Kramer

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Friday, February 25
2:30 p.m. Pascal Bruckner & Mark Lilla (moderated by Adam Gopnik)

4:00 p.m. David B. & Ben Katchor (moderated by Françoise Mouly)

7:30 p.m. Atiq Rahimi & Russell Banks (moderated by Lila Azam Zanganeh)

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Saturday, February 26

2:30 p.m. Laurence Cossé & Arthur Phillips (moderated by Judith G. Miller)



4:00 p.m. Philippe Claudel & A. M. Homes (moderated by John R. MacArthur)

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Organized by the Center for French Civilization and Culture of NYU, Institut Français, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy

NYU's Colloquium in American Literature and Culture, Spring 2011 Call for Papers (1/7/11)

The Colloquium in American Literature and Culture

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Colloquium in American Literature and Culture (CALC) at New York University is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for our Spring 2011 events. CALC is a forum for the presentation and discussion of new Americanist scholarship by both junior and senior researchers. CALC encourages paper proposals by graduate students and faculty that focus on any subject or period relevant to American literature and culture.

A typical CALC event features two presentations of 20-25 minutes, followed by audience questions and discussion. All sessions are open to the public. Past speakers have presented on such diverse topics as early twentieth-century suffrage cookbooks, antebellum children's literature, and early American structures of feeling. Approaches have included single-author and comparative studies, media studies, as well as print and material culture studies. We invite the attendance of all faculty and graduate students, regardless of specialty, to CALC events. Please visit our website at: http://nyucalc.com/.

To submit your work for consideration, please email an abstract of your project to nyucalc@gmail.com by Friday, January 7th. CALC also encourages, but does not require, submitters to include a CV with the abstract.

Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU: Historian's Eye with M. Frye Jacobson, Dec. 1

HISTORIAN'S EYE
Matthew Frye Jacobson (Yale University)

“The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.”

—Barack Obama, Inaugural Address, January 20, 2009

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1, 2010

4:00-6:00 PM

Dept. of Social & Cultural Analysis

20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor

New York, NY 10003

Beginning as a modest effort in early 2009 to capture the historic moment of our first black president’s inauguration in photographs and interviews, the “Our Better History” project and the Historian’s Eye website have evolved into an expansive collection of some 1300+ photographs and an audio archive addressing Obama’s first term in office, the ’08 economic collapse and its fallout, two wars, the raucous politics of healthcare reform, the emergence of a new right-wing formation in opposition to Obama, the politics of immigration, Wall Street reform, street protests of every stripe, the BP oil spill, and the escalation of anti-Muslim sentiment nationwide. In addition to catching this moment like a firefly in a mason jar, the project seeks to encourage a new relationship to history itself—a mental habit of apprehending the past in the present and history-in-the-making.

Matthew Frye Jacobson is professor of American Studies, History, and African American Studies at Yale and author of five books in the areas of immigration, race, empire, and US political culture.