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The Global Soul: Imagining the Cosmopolitan

Copley Formal Lounge and Gaston Hall, Georgetown University 37th and O Streets NW, Washington

The Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice presents a two-day symposium, “The Global Soul: Imagining the Cosmopolitan,” in collaboration with the Bath Spa Centre for Transnational Creativity and Education. Participants include John Freeman, Xiaolu Guo, Aleksandar Hemon, Kapka Kassabova, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Taiye Selasi, and Kamila Shamsie. Today it seems as if the world is in the midst of multiple national identity crises—countries are in retreat from the global, withdrawing behind closing borders. In times of heightened political tension, identity as nationhood becomes an either/or question. What are you? Are you with us or against us? So where does that […]

Salvador Vidal-Ortiz — “The Feminist Racial Justice Project of Queer Brown Voices”

Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall University of Maryland, College Park

In this workshop-­style presentation, Salvador Vidal­-Ortiz will discuss the foundational feminist, queer, and racial justice roots of his book Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism (University of Texas Press, 2015), the political need for the documentation of these histories, and mechanisms of producing a book based on oral histories with people from the US and Puerto Rico. The interactive session will help attendees imagine similar projects with communities whose life narratives need to be told—and to think critically about presenting the stories and diversifying their distribution and availability in order to reach younger generations sooner. Vidal-Ortiz is associate professor […]

Conversation with Alex Ross

Choral Rehearsal Room, 2201 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park

New Yorker music critic Alex Ross will discuss his first book, The Rest Is Noise (2007), a landmark cultural history of twentieth-century music. He will also detail the development of his forthcoming book, Wagnerism: Art in the Shadow of Music, a survey of Wagner's influence on the arts, and will address the state of music criticism in the present day. A Q&A led by musicology professor William Robin will follow the discussion. Free; no tickets required.

Ryan Long — “Hannes Meyer in Europe and Mexico: Building, a Poetics of Displacement”

Tawes Hall 2115, University of Maryland 7751 Alumni Drive, College Park

Architect and Bauhaus Dessau director Hannes Meyer (1889–1954) lived and worked in Switzerland, Germany, the Soviet Union, and Mexico. His career was shaped by political persecution, resistance, and efforts to construct more egalitarian and just societies. This presentation argues that Meyer’s itinerary illustrates especially clearly architecture’s poetic relationship with space and time, a relationship defined more by disjuncture and interruption than coherency and continuity. Ryan Long is the current Vambery Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Maryland.