Events
Join us for two talks by Daniel Sacilotto on Latin American Marxism and the epistemology of respresentation
A bi-weekly series of informal workshop talks by graduate students and faculty, each focusing on an exemplary problem or object of study in their research
A public lecture and seminar with Eugenie Brinkema, Professor of Contemporary Literature and Media at MIT
The Centre for Expanded Poetics invites you to an online book presentation by Greg Ellermann, Lecturer at Yale University and author of Thought’s Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature (Stanford University Press, 2022).
Untimely Imagination is the ninth symposium in the Conjuncture series, co-organized by Nathan Brown and Petar Milat since 2008.
Join us on April 29th at 2PM for the final installment of this semester’s Occasional Talks series, featuring Cordelia Belton, on “Value's Judgments and Communist Practical Reason.”
On Thursday, April 27th, at 1PM, the Centre for Expanded Poetics at Concordia University will host a reading by the Palestinian poet Olivia Elias for the launch the English translation of her recent book Chaos, Crossing. This event will be facilitated by Montréal-based artists and writers Hoda Adra and Alexei Perry Cox, who will introduce and open a conversation on her work.
On Monday, April 17th, at 5PM, the Centre for Expanded Poetics at Concordia University will host a reading by the American poet, essayist and playwright Carla Harryman, in collaboration with Montréal-based author Gail Scott, who will introduce and open a conversation on her work.
Precarities, Pastorals and Poetics is a creative-writing workshop which asks how precarity can queer our relationship with the natural world, crafting new understandings of pastoral poetry. We draw together a range of pastoral traditions: 18th &19th century labouring class poets, urban pastorals of precariously employed workers, and the necropastoral which binds together technology, death and the anthropocene.
Please join us for two talks drawn from the current book project of Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús, Catastrophic Historicism: Reading Julia de Burgos Dangerously.
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.
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
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
