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:3394-3c24bb298061bd64230c9a938efbc103@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260514T204020Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T170000 SUMMARY:\"Flat World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First Century Ame rica\" DESCRIPTION:Lecture sponsored by the Digital Culture and Media Initiativ e\, Department of English\n\nThis talk addresses mainstream literary fic tion written by American authors and authors writing about the United St ates from the time of the Y2K crisis to the onset of Covid-19. Through t he lens of literary texts by authors such as Don DeLillo\, Jonathan Safr an Foer\, Mohsin Hamid\, Kristen Roupenian\, and Zadie Smith\, it consid ers the problems and possibilities of digital devices and media that cri tics say are threatening to eradicate old-media print culture. In doing so\, it puts the humanities into conversation with STEM in a way that co mplements digital humanities scholarship and puts the spotlight on digit al humanity: on what it means to be human in the digitizing world.\n\n&n bsp\;\n\nSpeaker bio:\n\n \;\n\nLiliana M. Naydan is associate profe ssor of English at Penn State Abington. She is the author of Flat World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First Century America (U of Ge orge P\, 2021) and Rhetorics of Religion in American Fiction: Faith\, Fu ndamentalism\, and Fanaticism in the Age of Terror (Bucknell UP\, 2016). She is co-editor of Out in the Center: Public Controversies and Private Struggles (Utah State UP\, 2018\; winner of the 2019 IWCA Outstanding B ook Award) and Terror in Global Narrative: Representations of 9/11 in th e Age of Late-Late Capitalism (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2016). She lives in the greater Philadelphia area.\n\n \;\n\nFor more details: https://e vents.la.psu.edu/event/flat_world_fiction_digital_humanity_in_early_twen ty-first_century_america/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Lecture sponsored by the Digital Culture and Media Initiative, Dep artment of English

This talk addresses mainst ream literary fiction written by American authors and authors writing ab out the United States from the time of the Y2K crisis to the onset of Co vid-19. Through the lens of literary texts by authors such as Don DeLill o, Jonathan Safran Foer, Mohsin Hamid, Kristen Roupenian, and Zadie Smit h, it considers the problems and possibilities of digital devices and me dia that critics say are threatening to eradicate old-media print cultur e. In doing so, it puts the humanities into conversation with STEM in a way that complements digital humanities scholarship and puts the spotlig ht on digital humanity: on what it means to be human in the digitizing w orld.

 

Speak er bio:

 

Lil iana M. Naydan is associate professor of English at Penn State Abington. She is the author of Flat World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twen ty-First Century America (U of George P, 2021) and Rhetorics of Religion in American Fiction: Faith, Fundamentalism, and Fanaticism in the Age o f Terror (Bucknell UP, 2016). She is co-editor of Out in the Center: Pub lic Controversies and Private Struggles (Utah State UP, 2018; winner of the 2019 IWCA Outstanding Book Award) and Terror in Global Narrative: Re presentations of 9/11 in the Age of Late-Late Capitalism (Palgrave Macmi llan, 2016). She lives in the greater Philadelphia area.

 

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/flat_world_fiction_digit al_humanity_in_early_twenty-first_century_america/

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