UNT American Studies Colloquium

10/25/2016

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

04/11/2016

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."

04/16/2015

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.

04/11/2014

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"

04/08/2014

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.”

03/31/2014

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

03/27/2014

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!

03/24/2014

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/

Thoughts on modernity/coloniality, geopolitics of knowledge, border thinking, pluriversality, and the decolonial option

02/27/2014

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

02/27/2014

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

Discussion:"300 Years of Muslims in New York"Led by Spencer D. C. Keralis(UNT Libraries & Digital Scholarship Co-Operative)

02/21/2014

Next Friday: the first MRC-ASC roundtable!

11/10/2013

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