UNT American Studies Colloquium

Please join us on Friday for the Fall 2015 American Studies Colloquium in partnership with the La Colectiva Speakers Series!

Please join us for a lecture THIS FRIDAY April 15, 2016, 3:30 pm, AUD 201! Dr. Stacie McCormick from TCU will address the topic of "Putting On Whiteness: Unmasking Minstrelsy in Contemporary African American Drama."

The ASC Lecture for Spring 2015 is tomorrow! Please join us at 3pm in ENVS 125 for Jarrod Hayes' (U Michigan) lecture on "Reading Race Between the Lines: Sidonie de la Houssaye and Nineteenth Century Louisiana." Laila Amine will introduce Jarrod Hayes.

Mark your calendars for two great talks coming up next week:
Thursday, April 17, 5:30 PM, ENV 110, Walter Mignolo (Duke), "The Closing of Modernity: Growth, Development, and Death"
AND
Friday, April 18, 3:30 PM, LANG 310, Meta Jones (Howard), ""What Time is It and Where Are We Now?: Lyric Time-Space in James Baldwin and Natasha Trethewey's Poetry"

Next Friday, April 18, at 3:30 PM, Meta Jones visits the ASC to speak on: “What Time is It and Where Are We Now?: Lyric Time-Space in James Baldwin and Natasha Trethewey's Poetry.”

James H. Cox (UT-Austin) visits the ASC to speak on "Alliances and Revolutions in Transnational American Indian Literature."

Tomorrow, 3/28, at 3:30 PM in SYC 119, James H Cox visits the ASC to give a talk from his recent book, The Red Land to the South: American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico. All are welcome!

Walter Mignolo with a "decolonial take" on Ukraine (Mignolo's talk at UNT is coming up on April 17!):


http://waltermignolo.com/ukraine-2014-a-decolonial-take/

UKRAINE 2014: A DECOLONIAL TAKE | Thoughts on modernity/coloniality, geopolitics of knowledge, border thinking, pluriversality, and the decolonial option

Tomorrow: Interdisciplinarity-literature, law, science, and medicine. Come find out how writing can heal your illnesses!

Before you attend the roundtable on interdisciplinary at 4 PM tomorrow (2/28), check out this discussion on the history of Muslims in New York. From 2-3:30 PM in Willis Library Forum.
http://disco.unt.edu/node/113

Let's Talk About It: Muslim Journeys | Columbia Sourcebook of Muslims in the U.S. | disco.unt.edu Discussion:"300 Years of Muslims in New York"Led by Spencer D. C. Keralis(UNT Libraries & Digital Scholarship Co-Operative)

Next Friday: the first MRC-ASC roundtable!

Toni Wall Jaudon, "How To Do Things With (Religious) Books"