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Spring 2025 Events
| Academic Talks and Speakers |
Rita Felski |
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Location: TBA Rita Felski is John Stewart Bryan Professor at The University of Virginia. Felski's research centers aesthetics, interpretation, and method/methodology, particularly in context of literary criticism, cultural studies, and comparative literature. Felski recently published Hooked: Art and Attachment (The University of Chicago Press, 2020). |
Faculty Spotlight: Thaddeus Davis and Tanya Wideman-Davis |
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Date and Time: February 6 at TBA Location: TBA Join us in celebrating distinguished faculty at the University of South Carolina. Thaddeus Davis and Tanya Wideman-Davis lead the South Carolina and Chicago-based Wideman Davis Dance company. Wideman Davis Dance company specializes in dance performances that tell the layered stories of Black spaces and history. Thaddeus Davis and Tanya Wideman-Davis are Associate Professors in the Department of Theatre and Dance. They were awarded a grant from the Mellon Foundation in 2022 to expand Migratuse Ataraxia, a dance-based initiative that will engage live audiences in intimate antebellum stories. |
Reem Hilu |
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Location: TBA Reem Hilu is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Hilu's research involves digital media and the relationship between gender, domesticity, and technological change. Hilu will discuss her latest book The Intimate Life of Computers: Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s (University of Minnesota Press, 2024). |
Faculty Spotlight: Saskia Coenen Snyder |
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Location: TBA Join us in celebrating distinguished faculty at the University of South Carolina. Saskia Coenen Snyder is Professor of Modern Jewish History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program. Coenen Snyder specializes in Jewish history, culture, and religion with particular interest in the intersection between material culture, economics, politics, and modern Jewish history. Coenen Snyder's most recent book is A Brilliant Commodity: Diamonds and Jews In A Modern Setting (Oxford University Press, 2022). |
Derrick Spires Lecture, "Serial Blackness: Periodical Literature and Early African American Literary Histories in the Long Nineteenth Century"(Mellon Seminar) |
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Location: TBA Derrick Spires is Associate Professor of Literatures in English and affiliate faculty in American Studies, Visual Studies, and Media Studies at Cornell University. He specializes in early African American and American print culture, citizenship studies, and African American intellectual history. |
Book Discussion with Derrick Spires |
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Date and Time: TBA Location: All Good Books Derrick Spires will lead a follow-up discussion surrounding the topics of the seminar and his work at All Good Books. The public, faculty, and students are invited to ask questions and participate in discussion. |
Faculty Book Launch: Seulghee Lee and Leah McClimans |
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Date and Time: April 11 at TBA Location: All Good Books Join us in celebrating recent publications by University of South Carolina faculty, Seulghee Lee and Leah McClimans. Seulghee Lee is the author of Other Lovings: An AfroAsian Theory of Life (The Ohio State University Press, 2025) and Leah McClimans is the author of Patient-Centered Measurement: Ethics, Epistemology, and Dialogue in Contemporary Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2024). |
Date and Time: January 30-31 at TBA
Date and Time: February 21 at TBA
Date and Time: March 5 at 3:45 pm
Date and Time: March 27-28 at TBA
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