A film by Bruce Robbins, Some of My Best Friends Are Zionists, featured here in continuation of b2‘s Legacies of the Future: On the Life and Work of Edward Said.
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A Closing Discussion to 'Legacies of the Future'
Only to put a pin in b2‘s Legacies of the Future: The Life and Work of Edward Said, and the question: what is criticism? And: what is ‘its relationship, among other things, to specifically–but not exclusively–literary form and the function of imagination?’ Here, the scope found in Said.
Trace the entirety of the conference here. (The volume is better with earphones.)
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Bruce Robbins reports from MLA debate on Israel
Bruce Robbins covers the recent MLA debate and resolution on Israel’s denials of entry of U.S. academics to the West Bank.
Read his full article here.
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Ships of Bondage and the Fight for Freedom
Curated by Anthony Bogues and Shana Weinberg, “Ships of Bondage and the Fight for Freedom examines the global networks involved in the African slave trade. This exhibition tells the story of slave insurrections on three vessels including the Amistad, the Meermin, and the Sally, exploring the struggle of the enslaved to resist captivity, gain freedom, and return to their homelands.”
Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.
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Don Pease — "Futures of American Studies"
The world-famous course of lectures and seminars begins again this summer. Here is the Institute’s Schedule. Don Pease, the Institute’s director, will be delivering his lecture, “Between the Camp and the Commons.”
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des mémoires de la traite, de l’esclavage et de leurs abolitions
Our friends in France–please try to be there, especially to hear Tony Bogues on The Collective Memory of Slavery in the US . . . .
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some bounders on Harold Bloom
On the 40th anniversary of Harold Bloom’s Anxiety of Influence, Dan O’Hara organized a one day meeting to discuss the merits and place of the book and Bloom’s theory. Here is link to the audio recording of the days events. Speakers included Dan O’Hara, Jonathan Arac, Susan Balée, and Paul Bové with lots of discussion.
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Edward Said Memorial Conference
Utrecht, April 15 – 17. Here’s the link.
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The American Dream Debate — Don Pease at the Oxford Union
Here is the video of those debates, with Don continuing his long meditations on America and President Obama.
