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Past Events

June
2
Date
Mon June 2nd 2025, 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Please join the Department of English for a poetry reading and discussion with poet and organizer Wendy Trevino! Wendy will be speaking on the themes of literature, abolition, and ecology.

May
28
Date
Wed May 28th 2025, 12:00pm
Location
Building 460, Margaret Jacks Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 460, Stanford, CA 94305
Terrace Room (426)

What did Langston Hughes and W.E.B Du Bois have to say about race and blackness in two radically different moments in China when they visited in 1933 and 1959?

May
20
Date
Tue May 20th 2025, 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Location
Building 460, Margaret Jacks Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 460, Stanford, CA 94305
Terrace Room

What if close reading—now at the center of the debates known as the “method wars”—was never simply a protocol or set of interpretive steps, but a cultivated practice of attention…

May
19
Date
Mon May 19th 2025, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
216

Beyond the Travel Narrative: Poesis, the Comparative and Global Literature

Nigel Smith (Princeton University)

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May
13
Date
Tue May 13th 2025, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Location
Building 460, Margaret Jacks Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 460, Stanford, CA 94305
Terrace Room (426)

Please join the Department of English for a Methods Café book event with Allison Carruth on May 13.

 

Tuesday, May 13

5:00pm