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Fall 2019 Additional MOCH Events 

 

Works in Progress Group

Robert Barsky (Law, Carleton (CAN)/Vanderbilt)

  • Encounters with Aliens, Monsters and Terrorists: Examples from the Great Tradition of Literature
  • Wednesday, October 23, 4:00-5:30 PM
  • Location TBA

Robert Barsky's forthcoming book provides an overview of major characters from the Great Tradition of literary texts, imagining that they face challenges that can be compared to those encountered by contemporary refugees. In this conversation, Barsky will discuss the fourth chapter in that book, invoking examples from John Milton's Paradise Lost, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and HG Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau. These texts, familiar to many people either through text or film, take on a quite different hue when viewed through a border-crossing lens, raising new horizons for research into both contemporary refugee issues, and some of the greatest literary texts in the canon.

Rebekkah Mulholland (PhD Candidate, History, University of Memphis)

  • "Our main goal is to see gay people liberated": Gender Non-Conforming Women and Social Injustices
  • Tuesday, November 5, 4:00-5:30 PM
  • Location TBA

In the second chapter of my dissertation, I discuss the lives of three transgender and gender nonconforming women of color. I explore the multiple oppressions that affected their everyday lives and how their race, class, gender, and labor subjected them to violent and often deadly outcomes.

Amanda Nell Edgar (Associate Professor, Department of Communication & Film, University of Memphis)

  • Fury and Sound: Identity, Agency, and the Aurality of Justice Advocacy
  • Tuesday, November 19, 4:00-5:30 PM
  • Location TBA

Abstract TBA

Memphis 3.0 and the Digital Divide Roundtable

  • Tuesday, September 17, 4:30-6:30 PM
  • Arts and Communication Building, Room 314
  • Cosponsored by the Digital Humanities Community of Research Scholars and Memphis Reads

Panelists: Andre Johnson (Communication & Film, U of M), Ernestine Jenkins (Art, U of M), Shamichael Hallman (Cossitt Library, Fourth Bluff)

McWerter NED Talks

  • Wednesday and Thursday, November 13 and 14, 3-6 PM
  • McWerter Library
  • Cosponsored by McWerter Library

 Check out our Lectures this semester and WKNO's Spotlight on Lifelong Learning for a full listing of humanities events in Memphis. 

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