Naseeb Shaheen Memorial Lecture Series
About The Shaheen Memorial Lecture Series
The Shaheen Memorial Lecture Series was established after the death, in 2009, of Dr. Naseeb Shaheen, who was a professor in the English Department at the University of Memphis for many years. Dr. Shaheen wrote extensively about early modern literature, chiefly Shakespeare. His books on biblical references in Shakespeare's plays (1999, 2002) and Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1976) remain the definitive work in this field. He also published a two-volume Pictorial History of Ramallah (Palestine) (1992, 2006). In addition to his scholarly work, Dr. Shaheen was a noted philanthropist and collector of pre-King James English Bibles.
The Eleventh Annual Naseeb Shaheen Memorial Lecture
Fall 2021 Lecture Series: Slow Violence and Environmental Justice in 2021
How does the campaign for environmental justice inform the most urgent issues of our time? Nixon will look, in particular, at Black Lives Matter, the Climate Crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic. What can we learn about the crossover concerns that connect them? How have artists sought to bring life and energy to these struggles for justice? And how does slow violence manifest in these social movements? Rob Nixon holds the Barron Family Professorship in Environment and Humanities at Princeton University. He is the author most recently of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. He writes frequently for the New York Times and his essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Nation, London Review of Books, The Village Voice, Aeon, Boston Review, and elsewhere.
Past Shaheen Lecturers
10/3/2019
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Stephanie Burt, Harvard University
"Shipping Containers"
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10/4/18 |
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11/2/17 |
Yolanda Pierce, Professor and Dean, Howard University School of Divinity |
10/20/16 |
William J. Maxwell, Professor of English and African and African American Studies at Washington University
in St. Louis |
10/22/15 |
Nicholas Watson, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English, Harvard University |
10/2/14 |
Paul Stevens, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Early Modern Literature and Culture, University
of Toronto |
11/21/13 |
Achsah Guibbory, Ann Whitney Olin Prof. of English, Barnard College |
10/18/12 |
Katherine Bassard, Professor of English, Virginia Commonwealth University |
11/10/11 |
Robert Alter, Professor of Hebrew Language and Comparative Literature, University of California
at Berkeley |
9/21/10 |
Debora Shuger, Distinguished Professor of English, UCLA |
PAST SHAHEEN SYMPOSIA
10/16/15 "Keepin' it Real: The Languages of Authenticity"
9/26/14 "Producing Heroes"