Open Colloquies The Colloquies shown here are currently active. Their curators continue to gather material, consider submissions, and adapt the topics to reflect an evolving conversation. We welcome your comments and contributions as we develop these collections. Open Colloquies Forthcoming Queer Transpacifics Curators Christine Xiong Delaney Chieyen Holton What affinities, tensions, and conceptual convergences emerge between “queer” and “transpacific”? How can we (re)conceptualize queerness both transnationally and translocally? What is queer about the transpacific? Thing Theory in Literary Studies Curators Sarah Wasserman Patrick Moran This Colloquy highlights innovative work situated at the intersection of literary and material culture studies. Thinking about the agency of things alongside our own has raised a series of ontological concerns that cross disciplinary boundaries. But literature, which can interrogate things as they are and as they might be, has the capacity to point in new directions. The Right to the Creative City Curators Michael B. Kahan Peggy Phelan How has the creative city paradigm transformed both contemporary cities and artistic production? How have marginalized communities asserted their right to the city by deploying creativity in new ways? Updated The Future of the Public Humanities Curator Roland Greene Is the future of the humanities a public one? This Colloquy proposes that a truly public humanities must encourage critical attention to its own premises. Its ten contributions include reflections on the concept of public humanities, interviews with practitioners and critics, and accounts of public-oriented projects in action. Shakespeare and Cervantes Then and Now Curator Roland Greene An early modern transatlantic world in which information moved slowly could hardly have noticed the date, but 407 years later it registers for us. Precariousness and Aesthetics Curators Benjamin Bateman Elizabeth Adan If precarity is both a limit for the human and an opening for imagining the human differently, what limits and openings does it offer to aesthetic practice, and what limits and openings does it expose within our reigning critical paradigms? Updated Postcolonial Spatialities Curator Ato Quayson On one reading, postcolonial studies seem to be riveted more firmly on temporal as opposed to spatial questions. This may be traced partly to the effect of the temporalizing "post-" in the term postcolonialism, which has allowed an insistence on various dates as inaugurating the epochal postcolonial relation. On Being a Medievalist and More Curator Marisa Galvez This Colloquy is one of two that originated in the "After 1967" conference in which we celebrated the work of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. While the other (soon to appear) Colloquy gathers papers and related materials that reflect the general shape of Gumbrecht's career, this one is concerned with his relation to medieval literature, his original field of interest. Imagining the Oceans Curator Margaret Cohen The oceans cover three-quarters of the globe. They sustain life on land and shape societies across history and culture. The ocean environment at the same time is forbidding and remote, hostile to human physiology and beyond the lived experience of most people, even today. Elena Ferrante Curator Barbara Alfano The success of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels (2011-14) has sparked worldwide buzz in and out of academia, in literary journals, and in book clubs. Comparing Literatures: Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish, Urdu Curator Alexander Key Comparative Literature has spent the last few decades expanding its focus beyond Europe and the Anglophone Americas. But has it succeeded? Arts + Justice Curators Jisha Menon Anna Jayne Kimmel Approaching justice from the perspective of arts and culture enables us to attend to its affective, embodied, social, and political dimensions, thus bringing together a range of cross-disciplinary dialogues.
Forthcoming Queer Transpacifics Curators Christine Xiong Delaney Chieyen Holton What affinities, tensions, and conceptual convergences emerge between “queer” and “transpacific”? How can we (re)conceptualize queerness both transnationally and translocally? What is queer about the transpacific?
Thing Theory in Literary Studies Curators Sarah Wasserman Patrick Moran This Colloquy highlights innovative work situated at the intersection of literary and material culture studies. Thinking about the agency of things alongside our own has raised a series of ontological concerns that cross disciplinary boundaries. But literature, which can interrogate things as they are and as they might be, has the capacity to point in new directions.
The Right to the Creative City Curators Michael B. Kahan Peggy Phelan How has the creative city paradigm transformed both contemporary cities and artistic production? How have marginalized communities asserted their right to the city by deploying creativity in new ways?
Updated The Future of the Public Humanities Curator Roland Greene Is the future of the humanities a public one? This Colloquy proposes that a truly public humanities must encourage critical attention to its own premises. Its ten contributions include reflections on the concept of public humanities, interviews with practitioners and critics, and accounts of public-oriented projects in action.
Shakespeare and Cervantes Then and Now Curator Roland Greene An early modern transatlantic world in which information moved slowly could hardly have noticed the date, but 407 years later it registers for us.
Precariousness and Aesthetics Curators Benjamin Bateman Elizabeth Adan If precarity is both a limit for the human and an opening for imagining the human differently, what limits and openings does it offer to aesthetic practice, and what limits and openings does it expose within our reigning critical paradigms?
Updated Postcolonial Spatialities Curator Ato Quayson On one reading, postcolonial studies seem to be riveted more firmly on temporal as opposed to spatial questions. This may be traced partly to the effect of the temporalizing "post-" in the term postcolonialism, which has allowed an insistence on various dates as inaugurating the epochal postcolonial relation.
On Being a Medievalist and More Curator Marisa Galvez This Colloquy is one of two that originated in the "After 1967" conference in which we celebrated the work of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. While the other (soon to appear) Colloquy gathers papers and related materials that reflect the general shape of Gumbrecht's career, this one is concerned with his relation to medieval literature, his original field of interest.
Imagining the Oceans Curator Margaret Cohen The oceans cover three-quarters of the globe. They sustain life on land and shape societies across history and culture. The ocean environment at the same time is forbidding and remote, hostile to human physiology and beyond the lived experience of most people, even today.
Elena Ferrante Curator Barbara Alfano The success of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels (2011-14) has sparked worldwide buzz in and out of academia, in literary journals, and in book clubs.
Comparing Literatures: Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish, Urdu Curator Alexander Key Comparative Literature has spent the last few decades expanding its focus beyond Europe and the Anglophone Americas. But has it succeeded?
Arts + Justice Curators Jisha Menon Anna Jayne Kimmel Approaching justice from the perspective of arts and culture enables us to attend to its affective, embodied, social, and political dimensions, thus bringing together a range of cross-disciplinary dialogues.