BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4557-d70fe242504ed0809d7563027bdf7475@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260506T040315Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220218T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220218T130000 SUMMARY:“Sizing Up The Chair” DESCRIPTION:\nIn the opening episode of Netflix’s recently launched seri es The Chair\, Ji-Yoon Kim\, played by Sandra Oh\, delivers her first sp eech to her colleagues as the first woman\, and first woman of color\, t o serve as chair of the Department of English at Pembroke University: “I ’m not gonna sugarcoat this. We are in a dire crisis. In these unprecede nted times\, we have to prove that what we do in the classroom . . . is more important than ever and has value to the public good.”\n\nHailed by  The Atlantic as “Netflix’s Best Drama in Years\,” The Chair has elicite d much discussion from viewers and critics\, and academics and non-acade mics\, about its treatment of a range of issues including the crisis in the humanities\, freedom of speech\, departmental politics and culture\, and matters related to diversity\, equity\, and inclusion. The panelist s on this webinar tell us what the series gets right and wrong and share what they perceive to be the series’ achievements and contributions.\n\ nPanelists:\n\nDorothy Wang\, Professor and Chair of the American Studie s Program\, Williams College\n\nWang is the author of Thinking Its Prese nce: Form\, Race\, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetr y (Stanford University Press 2013)\, which won the Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Literary Criticism. Her areas o f expertise include twentieth-and twenty-first century Asian American li terature\, poetry and poetics\, including experimental minority poetry.\ n\nRebecca L. Walkowitz\, Dean of Humanities and Distinguished Professor of English\, Rutgers University\n\nA former chair of the Department of English at Rutgers University\, Walkowitz writes and teaches courses abo ut modernism\, the contemporary anglophone novel\, and world literature.  The author and editor of many volumes\, Walkowitz’s current book projec t\, Future Reading\, shows how a new generation of migrant novelists\, e ssayists\, and nonfiction fabulists are changing the way we encounter wo rld languages. Ultimately\, the study calls for rethinking how we organi ze\, publish\, review\, honor\, and teach the literary works circulating today.\n\nCynthia A. Young\, Associate Professor of African American St udies\, English\, and Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\, Penn St ate\n\nYoung is the author of Soul Power: Culture\, Radicalism and the M aking of a U.S. Third World Left (Duke University Press 2006)\, which lo oks at the influence of Third World anticolonialism on activists\, write rs and filmmakers of color in the 1960s and 1970s. Her current manuscrip t\, Terror Wars-Culture Wars: Race\, Popular Culture and the Civil Right s Legacy After 9/11\, considers the contours of popular culture and cont emporary discourse in the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Of particular interest are questions of Black citizens hip and immigrant exclusion.\n\nModerator:\n\nLeland Tabares\, Visiting Assistant Professor of English\, Loyola University New Orleans\n\nTabare s’ work centers on literature\, labor\, and racialization in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American culture. His first book project\, Prof essionalizing Asian America: Race and Labor in the Twenty-First Century\ , traces the ways that Asian Americans’ increasing representation in a d iverse range of contemporary industry professions—from the university an d the modern restaurant industry to the Silicon Valley tech industry and digital media platforms like YouTube—enculturates new meanings of race\ , generationality\, and belonging.\n\nThis webinar is part of the 2020—2 2 CALS “Unprecedented” Webinar Series.\n\nFor more details: https://even ts.la.psu.edu/event/cals_sizing-up-the-chair/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In the opening episode of Netflix’s recently launched series The Chair, Ji-Yoon Kim, played by Sandra Oh, delivers her first speech to her colleagues as the first woman, and first woman of color, to serve as chair of the Dep artment of English at Pembroke University: “I’m not gonna sugarcoat this . We are in a dire crisis. In these unprecedented times, we have to prov e that what we do in the classroom . . . is more important than ever and has value to the public good.”

Hailed by The Atlantic as “ Netflix’s Best Drama in Years,” The Chair has elicited much discu ssion from viewers and critics, and academics and non-academics, about i ts treatment of a range of issues including the crisis in the humanities , freedom of speech, departmental politics and culture, and matters rela ted to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The panelists on this webinar t ell us what the series gets right and wrong and share what they perceive to be the series’ achievements and contributions.

Panelists:

< p>Dorothy Wang, Professor and Chair of the American Studies Program, Williams College

Wang is the author of Thinking Its Presenc e: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry (Stanford University Press 2013), which won the Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Literary Criticism. Her areas of expertise include twentieth-and twenty-first century Asian American lit erature, poetry and poetics, including experimental minority poetry.

Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Dean of Humanities and Distinguished Profess or of English, Rutgers University

A former chair of the Depart ment of English at Rutgers University, Walkowitz writes and teaches cour ses about modernism, the contemporary anglophone novel, and world litera ture. The author and editor of many volumes, Walkowitz’s current book pr oject, Future Reading, shows how a new generation of migrant nove lists, essayists, and nonfiction fabulists are changing the way we encou nter world languages. Ultimately, the study calls for rethinking how we organize, publish, review, honor, and teach the literary works circulati ng today.

Cynthia A. Young, Associate Professor of African Amer ican Studies, English, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies , Penn State

Young is the author of Soul Power: Culture, Ra dicalism and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left (Duke University Press 2006), which looks at the influence of Third World anticolonialism on activists, writers and filmmakers of color in the 1960s and 1970s. H er current manuscript, Terror Wars-Culture Wars: Race, Popular Cultur e and the Civil Rights Legacy After 9/11, considers the contours of popular culture and contemporary discourse in the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Of particular interest are que stions of Black citizenship and immigrant exclusion.

Moderator:

Leland Tabares, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Loyola U niversity New Orleans

Tabares’ work centers on literature, lab or, and racialization in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American cu lture. His first book project, Professionalizing Asian America: Race and Labor in the Twenty-First Century, traces the ways that Asian Am ericans’ increasing representation in a diverse range of contemporary in dustry professions—from the university and the modern restaurant industr y to the Silicon Valley tech industry and digital media platforms like Y ouTube—enculturates new meanings of race, generationality, and belonging .

This webinar is part of the 2020—22 CALS “Unprecedented” Webi nar Series.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/cals _sizing-up-the-chair/

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