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English Department Colloquium: New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
October 23, 2015 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm CDT
Free
Friday, Oct 23 (3-5pm)
Cedric Johnson, (African-American Studies, UIC) & Touré Reed (History, Illinois State Univ.).
The authors will discuss their recent articles published in Nonsite.org: “Working the Reserve Army: Proletarianization in Revanchist New Orleans” and “Why Moynihan Was Not So Misunderstood at the Time: The Mythological Prescience of the Moynihan Report and the Problem of Institutional Structuralism“
Location: Room 2028, University Hall, 601 S. Morgan Street (Halsted/UIC Blue Line CTA stop, building near the corner of Harrison St & Morgan St)
Time: Fridays, 3pm-5pm
Also, looking to the weeks ahead, the next speaker will be:
Fri, Oct 30
Harris Feinsod (English and Comparative Literary Studies, Northwestern University; Early Career Fellow, University of Pittsburgh Humanities Center, 2015-6). “Hazarding the Poetry of the Americas.”
For more details on English Department Colloquium events for the year, view the schedule here.
