Events
A bi-weekly series of informal workshop talks from CEP affiliated graduate students, each focusing on an exemplary problem or object of study in their research
Join us at the Centre for Expanded Poetics for a launch of David Swartz’s translation of Orpheu Literary Quarterly and a screening of his film based on Pessoa’s The Seafarer.
Please join us for a presentation of CEP Affiliate Megan Stein’s MFA Graduating Thesis, titled Tending, showcasing book works, stone lithography, letterpress / moveable type, handmade paper, screen printing, and soundscapes of field recordings and words translated as tone.
Please join us in 4th Space for a talk by S. Pearl Brilmyer on her recent book, The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and Victorian Realism
Please join us for a book talk by Rachel Zolf, moderated by CEP Co-Director Stephen Ross
An online graduate student conference hosted by the Centre for Expanded Poetics
Please join us for a book launch to celebrate the publication of CEP Director Nathan Brown’s Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique (Fordham University Press, 2021). The event will be hosted by Professor Stephen Ross, with a lecture by Nathan Brown and questions from respondent Professor Manish Sharma, followed by a general Q&A.
A Virtual Symposium in Three Parts: April 20, May 13, and June 14, 2021
Hosted by the Center for Expanded Poetics in collaboration with 4TH SPACE, Concordia University
Canadian Launch for Ariel Resnikoff’s Unnatural Bird Migrator
A poetry reading and discussion of translingual Jewish poetics with Adeena Karasick, introduced and moderated by Charles Bernstein
This workshop seeks to provide a forum to discuss the challenges and possibilities of incorporating the global turn in modernist studies into college-level courses on modernism, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Poetry, Translation, and the Circulation of Global Modernism: A Roundtable and Reading with Emily Drumsta, Klara Du Plessis, Ariel Resnikoff, and Sho Sugita
Moderated by Alys Moody and Stephen Ross
This roundtable showcases the methods and findings of Global Modernists on Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2020), a new anthology of source texts for global modernism. The book gathers texts by practitioners (writers, artists, critics, etc.) that reflect on the theory and practice of modernism around the world.
This April 25th and 26th, the Centre for Expanded Poetics will host Malcontents: A Convergence of Trans Scholarship, a two day gathering of academics and theorists from a variety of disciplines confronting the ways that institutions deform and delimit knowledge production about transness as well as by trans people.
Join us at the Centre for Expanded Poetics for a workshop with Amanda Holmes on Lacan’s Graph of Desire. The workshop will consist of two talks, each followed by discussion. The first talk with situate the graph in its intellectual-historical context, in relation to both Freud’s psychoanalytic topology and French structuralism. The second talk will work through the graph step-by-step, elaborating the elements and relationships it maps.
Amanda Holmes is a Doctoral student in the Philosophy Department at Villanova University. Her work is situated at the intersection of ontology and psychoanalysis. She is currently living in Vienna, Austria and writing her dissertation, which is titled "Erotology: Desire and Being in Lacan's Return to Freud."
Alexi Kukuljevic is an artist and a philosopher based in Vienna. He is the author of Liquidation World: On the Art of Living Absently published with MIT Press.
1:00 - 2:15
Anjli Raza Kolb, “Black Boxes” (from Terror Epidemics: Islamophobia and the Disease Poetics of Empire)
2:45 - 4:00
Ronjaunee Chatterjee, “Singularity, Seriality, Sensation: The Case for Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White”
In 2019 the Centre for Expanded Poetics and Anteism co-published Bretta C. Walker’s extraordinary book of photography and poetry, THE GARDEN.
Please join us for an exhibition of Walker’s beautiful photographs, and help us launch her book.
Pink is a Kind of Yellow:
Making Sense of Early Modern Color and Color Terms
Ideas about what color is and what color terms mean developed along diverging paths during the seventeenth century. As natural philosophers became increasingly committed to the notion that colors were mere “Phantasms” of the senses divorced from the material world, lexicographers became increasingly committed to the notion that color terms were stable, rigid words that could be defined by reference to the material world. We encounter, then, a curious situation where Milton’s mention of “the uncolored sky” and Phillips’ gloss of “Azure” as “a sky-color” both, in a manner of speaking, say something true. What, though, are we to make of colored abstractions in poetry like “a green thought”? Or sumptuary laws that involve colors like “Carnation” vaguely defined as “flesh color”? Or seemingly erroneous descriptions of natural objects like “onyx” which (we are told) is “a whyte stone, lyke to a mannes nayl”? Making sense of early modern color and color terms prompts us to ask how historical sociolinguistics inform and are informed by historical ontologies. More broadly, the problem of reconciling the seeming disjunct between how early modern color and color terms were understood forces us to ask whether semantic claims can, should, or must be squared with metaphysical ones.
John Casey recently received a PhD from the Department of English at Brown. His work has appeared (or is forthcoming) in Early Modern Culture and ARCADE.
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Join us for two talks by Anthony Reed, Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.
October 24, 6-8pm - Voice Prints: Toward a Black Media Concept in Archie Shepp’s Phonographic Poetry
October 25, 12-2pm - Body/Language: Cecil Taylor’s Poetics and Semiotics of Black Embodiment
Join us on Friday October 11 for a talk by CEP collaborator Petar Milat, of MaMa Multimedia Insitute in Zagreb.
In this talk-performance Lisa Samuels will present theory and creative work that emerge in transplace epistemologies and poetics. Her 2018 essay “The right to be transplace,” in the anthology Wretched Strangers, explores transnational and peripatetic existence as place. In this seminar for Concordia, theories that arise partly in transplacement – including “wild dialectics” and “distributed centrality” – will be held in relation to readings from recent creative work that can attach to transplace poetics, including from her new poetry & photos book The Long White Cloud of Unknowing (Chax Press 2019).
Lisa Samuels is a transnational poet who also works with sound, film, and art installations. She is the author of seventeen books of poetry, memoir, and prose—mostly poetry—including Tender Girl (2015), Symphony for Human Transport (2017), Foreign Native (2018), and The Long White Cloud of Unknowing (2019). She also publishes critical essays and edited work on creative theory and poetics. Since 2006 Lisa has lived in Aotearoa/New Zealand, where she is Professor of English & Drama at the University of Auckland.
Center for Expanded Poetics LB 681, moving to the Visualization Studio at Webster Library in the same building, LB 314
Please join us for a media rich artist talk by Debora Alanna on “the poetics of tears in VR environments — the embodiment of cried environs.”
Please join us for an artists talk and printing workshop with Jovi Schnell
Artist’s talk: Wed, Nov. 21, 1-3pm
Workshop: Thurs, Nov. 22, 1-3pm
Please join us for a lecture by Tomislav Medak (Multimedia Institute/Zagreb, Centre for Postdigital Cultures/Coventry University)
Please join us for a lecture on book design by M. Wright, The Tangible/Intangible Book.
Please join us for a sound poetry performance by Vincent Barras & Jacques Demiere of Traghetto Nuovo. Hosted by Temps Libre in Mile End.
Please join us for a lecture by Gregor Moder, Spinoza and the Metaphysics of Substance
Please join us for a screening and discussion with filmmaker, artist, and poet Jean-Jacques Martinod.
A five-day symposium convened by Mama Multimedia Institute and the Centre for Expanded Poetics in Dubrovnik, Croatia
SPEAKERS
Pearl Brilmyer ● Nathan Brown ● Emily Ruth Capper ● Ronjaunee Chatterjee ● David Cunningham ● Greg Ellermann ● Michael Gallope ● Amanda Holmes ● Ante Jeric ● Alexi Kukuljevic ● Naomi Levine ● Jamila M.H. Mascat ● Petar Milat ● Julie Beth Napolin ● Marty Rayburn
