Dr. Yogita Goyal

Sponsored by:   
African American & Africana Studies Program, Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies, English Department, and 20/21 C working group 

Yogita Goyal (African American Studies and English, UCLA), author of Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery, will be joining us for this zoom event to discuss her book.  Runaway Genres won the Perkins Award, from the Narrative Society,  and was runner-up for the Lowell Prize, the top book prize awarded by the Modern  Language Association.  You can learn more about Yogita Goyal on her webpage:  https://www.yogitagoyal.com/about-me 

 
Date:

20/21c

Dr. Brower will be discussing the introduction, "The Big Picture," and the final chapter, "The Scenes of an Ending: Adaptation, Originality, and the New Authorship of Hollywood Pictures" of his book manuscript, currently titled Hollywood Signs: A Literary History of the Studio System.

All are welcome. Please contact Dr. Kalliney to attend. pjkall2@uky.edu. 

Date:

EGSO Symposium 2021

SATURDAY MARCH 20TH
 
9:00-10:15:
PhD Application Panel
Passcode: Symposium
 
10:30-11:45:
BIPOC and Genre Fiction Roundtable
A roundtable proposal for a discussion that aims to flesh out the intertwining and juxtaposed ways that genre fictions include, exclude, and position BIPOC authors and characters. The question of canon looms large as we explore the ways that these lists are traditionally white-washed, a discussion that cannot be ignored as we think about various genre fiction’s reception of BIPOC authors and characters. How are BIPOC characters treated within the confines of the novels in ways that are similar or different than their white novel counterparts? How does genre inform treatment of BIPOC characters, that is, does the genre rely on contemporary racial dynamics or does it reach outside of that structure? Are Black and Indigenous authors treated differently than White authors within the genre? Which books make up the ‘canon’ and how should we go about addressing exclusions within the ‘traditional’ novels of particular genre fictions? Thinking pedagogically, how do we wrestle with these questions and avoid perpetuating them, particularly in a spectacularly turbulent national environment?
Passcode: Symposium
 
12-1pm: Lunch
 
1-2pm:
Student Activist Panel
Passcode: Symposium
 
2:15-3:30pm:
Race in Literature and History Research and Pedagogy Panel with Jess, Jamie, Hannah, and Andrew
Passcode: Symposium
 
3:30-4:30:
Post Symposium Roundtable
Passcode: Symposium
Date:
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