[On March 9-10, 2012, the British Modernities Group (BMG) held its annual graduate student conference, “Modern Brains: Literary Studies and the Cognitive Sciences.” The following was written by Katherine Skwarczek, a BMG member who attended the conference.]Written by Katherine Skwarczek (English)...
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- Duvivier 1934[On Monday, March 12, 2012, Margaret Flinn, (French, Media & Cinema Studies), gave the Unit for Criticism’s annual faculty lecture titled "1930s 'Banlieutopia' and the Films of Julien Duvivier". Below is a response from Cameron Riopelle, a graduate student in Sociology]“Cinema and the Curious Property of Heterotopia”...
- Title page of Bacon's Instauration Magna (1620). The Latin inscription at the bottom reads "Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." [On Friday, March 2, 2012, John Unsworth, former Dean of the Graduate School for Library and Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, spoke at...
- A frame from Erykah Badu's video "Window Seat" (2010) [On Friday March 2, Lawrence Grossberg spoke at a CAS MillerComm lecture hosted by the Institute for Communications Research. In the following post guest blogger Rober Mejia describe Grossberg's lecture while also discussing the keynote lecture at the March 2-3...
- A kosher provisions shop at 183 Brick Lane in East London (1910)[On February 20, 2012, the Unit for Criticism co-organized a workshop with the Program in Jewish Culture and Society, “New Cities for New Jews: Zionist Utopia, Fantasy and the Modern Ur Landscape,” led by...
- Federal troops occupying line of breastworks on the north bank of the North Anna River in Virgina (1864) [This post from Justine Murison (English) is the last in our series of comments from the closing roundtable at the Unit's February 10 ...
- [Walter Benn Michaels (UIC), one of the speakers at the Unit for Criticism's 2/10 symposium, The Ends of History, responds to recent posts by Ezra Claverie and Ben Bascom]I had a good time at and learned a lot from the “Ends of History” symposium, especially in the discussions between the papers, so it’s great...
- [On February 10, 2012, the Unit for Criticism partnered with the Trowbridge Office on American Literature, Culture, & Society for a symposium, The Ends of History. The below contribution is from Ezra Claverie. It is the...
- Henry Adams, 1875[On February 10, 2012, the Unit for Criticism partnered with the Trowbridge Office on American Literature, Culture, & Society for a symposium, The Ends of History. The below contribution is from Ben Bascom. It is...
- Honoré de Balzac by Louis-Auguste Bisson, 1842.[On February 10, 2012, the Unit for Criticism partnered with the Trowbridge Office on American Literature, Culture, & Society for a symposium, The Ends of History. Below are remarks from...
- A covered arcade in 19th-century Paris.[On February 10, 2012, the Unit for Criticism partnered with the Trowbridge Office on American Literature, Culture, & Society for a symposium, The Ends of History. Below are remarks from...
- [On February 10, 2012, the Unit for Criticism partnered with the Trowbridge Office on American Literature, Culture, & Society for a symposium, The Ends of History. Published below are the symposium's...
- Projected European Coastal Changes after a Rise in Sea Level[Below Michael Verderame, a graduate student affiliate in English and recipient of a Unit for Criticism travel grant last fall, writes about his recent experience at a panel on climate change and the humanities at the 2012 Modern Language Association annual convention.]The...
- Dear Colleagues,As my previous mails may have already suggested, there is much good news afoot for the Unit for Criticism! Last week we launched our new Criticism & Interpretive Theory fellowship program (deadline 3/2); and our...
- [On Monday, December 5, the Unit for Criticism held the second of its Fall 2011 Author’s Roundtables. The Unit hosted Kathryn Lofton to discuss her book Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon. The below contribution is from Sarah Moon Cassinelli.]“This Oprah is maybe not your Oprah:” personal narrative and commodity in Oprah’s world-...