Lara Langer Cohen: TBD Event AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE SPEAKER: Lara Langer Cohen, Swarthmore College RESPONDENT: Charline Jao, Tufts University
Saeed Jones: Worldly, Langston Event AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE SPEAKER: Saeed Jones, Harvard University RESPONDENT: Namwali Serpell, Harvard University
Sven Beckert: Capitalism: A Global History Event AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE SPEAKER: Sven Beckert, Harvard University RESPONDENT: Kaveh Yazdani, University of Connecticut
Bonnie Costello: Making and Remaking "The Crucible" Event AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE SPEAKER: Bonnie Costello, Boston University RESPONDENT: Carrie Preston, Boston University
Alyssa Hunziker: Imperial Pedagogies: Native American Boarding Schools and U.S. Colonialism in the Philippines and Puerto Rico Event AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE SPEAKER: Alyssa Hunziker, Boston University RESPONDENT: Sarah Fong, Tufts University
Arielle Zibrak: Exceptional Thinking: Eugenic Feminism and the Poetics of Positivity Event AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE SPEAKER: Arielle Zibrak, University of Wyoming RESPONDENT: David Frank Holland, Harvard University
Kendra Field: The Stories We Tell: The Work of Family History Event AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE SPEAKER: Kendra Field, Tufts University RESPONDENT: Tiya Miles, Harvard University
Kelly Wisecup: ‘your own work eats up trees’: Birchbark Bookmaking, Settler Memory, and Paper Histories Event AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE SPEAKER: Kelly Wisecup, Northwestern University and the Radcliffe Institute RESPONDENT: Christopher Pexa, Harvard University Co-sponsored by Native Cultures of the Americas .
Sandra Lim: “Repetition, Repetition.” Event AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE SPEAKER: Sandra Lim, UMass-Lowell RESPONDENT: Allison Adair, Boston College
Walter Johnson: The Crime against Kansas: Indian Removal and Empire in the Life of John Brown Event AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE SPEAKER: Walter Johnson, Harvard University RESPONDENT: Aziz Rana, Boston College