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The Literature Program seeks to rethink what comparison might mean in a world rapidly being altered by complex forces of economic and technological integration. Although a focus on language, literature, and aesthetics continues to ground our work, we have pioneered by drawing together philosophical and theoretical reflections on the status of "literature" and "culture" with work in history, political economy, the sociology of culture, anthropology, visual culture, and cinema studies, all of which seeks to make sense of the complex factors affecting the historically changing nature of the relationship between society and culture.

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  • Digital Research in Dance Studies: Emerging Trends in a Still-Emerging Field

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  • Vitality and Obsolescence in the Theatre of the Humanities: Or, #SandraBland and Hamlet

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    Inter-departmental Seminar: Politics of Performance

    — March 25, 2015 —

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    Alt-Ac(tivism) Presents: Melissa Norton | Gentrification & the New Geography of Race, Class, and Privilege in the City

    — October 21, 2015 —

  • Alt-Ac(tivism) Presents: Sendolo Diaminah | Abolition, Strategy, and the Practice of Freedom

    — February 18, 2016 —

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    Pleasure and Suspicion: An Interdisciplinary Conference Hosted by Polygraph and the Literature Program

    — February 26, 2016 —

  • Alt-Ac(tivism) Presents: Loan Tran | When Youth Fight Back

    — March 23, 2016 —

  • Alt-Ac(tivism) Presents: Tactics and Toolkit for Organizing

    — April 7, 2016 —

  • Alt-Ac(tivism) Activist in Residence: Let’s Get Free! Leadership for Transformative Organizing (Part 1)

    — September 10, 2016 —

  • Alt-Ac(tivism) Activist in Residence: Let’s Get Free! Leadership for Transformative Organizing (Part 2)

    — October 1, 2016 —

  • Alt-Ac(tivism) Activist in Residence: Let’s Get Free! Leadership for Transformative Organizing (Part 3)

    — November 12, 2016 —

  • Film in Theory #1: David Lynch’s “Rabbits”

    — November 18, 2016 —

  • Film in Theory #2: “Tony Manero”

    — February 3, 2017 —

  • Film in Theory #3 (in conjunction with Queer Cinema): “Bijou”

    — February 24, 2017 —

  • The Futures of Literature, Science, and Media: A Symposium in Honor of Professor N. Katherine Hayles

    — November 17, 2017 —

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