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This symposium focuses on race-making as an imaginative act, constructed and articulated through rhetoric, broadly conceived as ranging from written and spoken discourse to visual communication and
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Ann Xiaoxu Pei
Ann Xiaoxu Pei is a PhD student in Comparative and World Literature program at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She works at the intersection of environmental humanities and memory studies,...
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Kelsi Quick
Kelsi Quick is a PhD student in the Political Science Department at the UIUC and a Research Assistant at the European Union Center. She has a strong interest in exploring the tension between the...
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Taisuke L. Wakabayashi (Landscape Architecture), Unit for Criticism SCT Fellow, Summer 2024
My summer at Cornell was a good one—a joyful, productive, and memorable experience.
Kei Kato (Geography), Unit for Criticism SCT Fellow, Summer 2024
Reflections on the School of Criticism and Theory, Summer 2024
For the six weeks from June 9 to July 18, I attended Cornell’s School of Criticism and Theory (SCT).
Introduction to Theory
This seminar introduces graduate students to theory, broadly construed. We will move through diverse texts to offer a range of contemporary theories about race, gender, literature, environment, indigeneity, and other matters. Throughout the semester we will ask ourselves “what is theory?” and, no doubt, come up with multiple answers.
Genre and Infrastructure in the Global South
Professor Rebecca Oh
Thurs, 12:30 - 02:50 PM
Genre and infrastructure are both structuring forms that shape how things will go. Generic properties shape emplotment, likely or unlikely events, types of characters, and readerly expectations; genre organizes both narrative elements and the relations between them. Likewise, infrastructures are sociotechnical systems that organize and distribute both things and the relations between them, whether by enabling or blocking the movement of people, ideas, and objects. This seminar will consider the affordances of genre for infrastructure and of...
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Graduate Affiliate Lila Ann Wong Awarded FLAS Fellowship for Center for African Studies
Lila was selected by the Center for African Studies as a FLAS Fellow to continue advanced study of Bamanankan/Julakan, summer 2024 and academic year 2024-25.
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At the beginning of this year Lila was invited to...