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for Transnational American Studies!

Walter Benn Michaels (University of Illinois, Chicago) May 7, 2019 10 a.m.-12 noon, Philosophicum I, P109a “The differentiation between left and right neoliberalism doesn’t really undermine the way it which it is deeply unified in its commitment to competitive markets...

Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera (University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez) April 30, 2019 10 a.m.-12 noon, Philosophicum I, P109a This talk is based on the monograph After American Studies, a timely critique of national and transnational approaches to community, and their forms of...

Bertrand van Ruymbeke (Université Paris 8) May 15, 2019 10 a.m.-12 noon, N3 (Muschel) How did the image of the New World evolve in France from the end of the Seven Years’ War in 1763 to the French Revolution in 1789? What was the intellectual and constitutional impact...

Denise Uyehara (Performance Artist) February 8, 2019 10 a.m.-12 noon, P 103 (Philosophicum)   Denise Uyehara was supposed to be a “good girl” from the suburbs, but instead she turned out “bad.” What went wrong — or right — depends on who you ask. In her talk, she...