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:14751-f2c03cd7dbb12879d7fa5eb6b9df9737@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260406T085324Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190325T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190325T163000 SUMMARY:Corruption DESCRIPTION:\nMonday\, March 25\, 2019\n\nThe Pennsylvania State Univers ity\n\nUniversity Park\, Pennsylvania\n\nFoster Auditorium\, Paterno Lib rary\n\nTaking our cue from the current moment—where opponents regularly accuse each other of being corrupt\, corrupted\, and corruptible—and th e notion that we may be living in a new Gilded Age\, this year’s symposi um showcases nationally prominent scholars alongside Penn State faculty and will examine ways in which American literature\, culture\, and socie ty engage and are engaged in corruption.\n\nWelcome: 10:00 AM\n\nRoundta ble One: The Roots and Routes of Corruption 10:15 AM—Noon\n\nLeigh Clair e La Berge\, Assistant Professor of English\, Borough of Manhattan Commu nity College (CUNY)\n\nGordon Fraser\, Senior Visiting Fellow\, Center f or Humanities and Information\, The Pennsylvania State University\, and Presidential Academic Fellow\, University of Manchester\n\nCynthia Young \, Associate Professor of African American Studies and English\, The Pen nsylvania State University\n\nJeffrey T. Nealon\, Edwin Erle Sparks Prof essor of English and Philosophy\, The Pennsylvania State University\n\nN ick Mitchell\, Assistant Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies a nd Feminist Studies\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\n\nMichael B érubé\, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English\, The Pennsylvania State University\n\nRoundtable Two: The Art(s) of Corruption 2:00 PM—3:45 PM\n \nKyla Wazana Tompkins\, Associate Professor of English and Gender and W omen’s Studies\, Pomona College\n\nNicole Seymour\, Associate Professor of English\, California State University\, Fullerton\n\nEric Bennett\, A ssociate Professor of English\, Providence College\n\nJulia Kasdorf\, Pr ofessor of English and Women's\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\, The Pe nnsylvania State University\n\nScott Selisker\, Associate Professor of E nglish\, University of Arizona\n\nRosemary Jolly\, Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Weiss Chair of the Humanities\, The Penns ylvania State University\n\nWrap-up Session: 3:45 PM—4:30 PM\n\nFor addi tional information\, please contact Sean X. Goudie\, Director of the Cen ter for American Literary Studies (sxgoudie@psu.edu )\n\nFor more detail s: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/corruption-2/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Monday, March 25, 2019
The Pennsylvania State Universit y
University Park, Pennsylvania
Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library

Taking our cue from the current moment—where opponents regularly accuse each other of being corrupt, corrupted, and corruptible—and the notion that we may be living in a new Gilded Age, this year’s symposium showcases nationally p rominent scholars alongside Penn State faculty and will examine ways in which American literature, culture, and society engage and are engaged i n corruption.

Welcome: 10:00 AM

Rou ndtable One: The Roots and Routes of Corruption 10:15 AM—Noon