Literature Department Calendar

A workshop on grade norming.

Type: Meeting
Host: Literature Department

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Tanya Agathocleous, CUNY:
Choosing between Country and Friend:
Modernism, Syncretism and Disaffection in the Imperial Encounter

Ideals of East-West syncretism abound in a range of early twentieth-century works, from the theosophical lectures of Annie Besant to the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore. The cultural union of East and West was imagined as a solution to global political conflict and often ...more

Type: Lecture/Speaker
Host: Literature Department

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Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland:
Strangers in Strange Lands: Figures in the Eighteenth-Century African Diaspora

This talk will focus in particular on William Ansah Sessarakoo (1720?-1770), who traveled first (involuntarily) from Africa to the West Indies, where he was redeemed from slavery by the Royal African Company, then sent to England, where he was treated as a celebrity before ...more

Type: Lecture/Speaker
Host: Literature Department

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This is a council meeting for the College Writing faculty.

Type: Information Session
Host: Literature Department

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College Writing Program TRT.

Type: Meeting
Host: Literature Department

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