The Graduate Program for Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh presents:

A Graduate Colloquium

With Special Guest,

Wlad Godzich

Distinguished Professor of General and Comparative Literature and Critical Studies University of California, Santa Cruz

       

Thursday, April 21th, 2011

10:00am-6:30pm

University of Pittsburgh

Humanities Center

602 Cathedral of Learning

 

 

 Program:

 

10:00am:

 

Clare Sutton (English) - “To See The World Feelingly: Imagining the Sixties.”

 

Elizabeth Rura (Library and Information Sciences) - “Imagining Transcendence in British and American Romantic Literature.”

 

Jessica Fitzpatrick (English) -“Telling ‘Never Again’: Rwandans and The(ir) Depictions of Genocide.”

 

Mohammad Mozumder (Sociology) - “Fakir Lalon Shah and His ‘Political Divine’.”

 

 

12:30pm: Lunch Break


2:00pm:

 

Diana Block (Communications) - “The Many Faces of Public Opinion: News Images of Steelworkers in The Pittsburgh-Post Gazette 1946/1985.”

 

Francisco Javier Avilé (Hispanic Languages and Literatures) - “The Latin American Experience: Carpentier and the Baroque Sense.”

 

Marie-Odile Naji Hobeika (Communications) - “At the Frays of Imagination: A Call for Shi‘ir.”

 

 

5:00pm:

Guest Lecture

Wlad Godzich

“Imagination Beyond the Matrix of Modernity”

 

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