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:3103-78117a2a89a085019fe6f78c8c23a551@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260514T205238Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230926T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230926T120000 SUMMARY:HI Resident Lecture Series: Graduate Student Summer Resident Talks “” DESCRIPTION:Talks by Graduate Student Summer Residents:\n\n&ldquo\;Black Cosmo-cologies: Rebirth and Renaissance in the Long Nineteenth Century& rdquo\; \;by Eunice Toh\, Departments of English and African America n Studies\n\nIn looking beyond ecology as simply metaphorical in literat ure\, this talk shows how Black ecology limns or haunts questions of lib eration\, world-making\, and humanism in the writings of American author s. By replacing the &ldquo\;e&rdquo\; in ecology with &ldquo\;cosmo\,&rd quo\; a Black cosmo-cology invites us to think of the metaphysical and t he material together. My investment in cosmology as a framework to appro ach nineteenth-century American literary studies is in line with recent scholarship interested in exploring cosmologies that encompass both scie nce and faith in tandem. My work scrutinizes one Eurocentric cosmology i n particular: the &ldquo\;renaissance.&rdquo\; \n\n&ldquo\;To Invent a N ew Language: Theorizing Complex Communication as Decolonial Resistance&r dquo\; by Sarah Carey\, Department of Philosophy\n\nBringing together th e methodologies of Lugones&rsquo\;s decolonial feminism and Derrida&rsqu o\;s deconstruction\, I aim to give an account of the possibilities for linguistic resistance under conditions of overwhelming colonial oppressi on. My project analyzes mechanisms and motivations behind violent coloni al uses of language and evaluates alternative ways of communicating that seek to defy and resist coloniality. I argue that Lugones&rsquo\;s prac tice of complex communication is a promising practice of decolonial ling uistic resistance\, insofar as it opens an opportunity for more liberato ry understandings of each other even while upholding moments of incommen surability and untranslatability. \; \n\n&ldquo\;Transculturations a nd nonencounter in the Realm of Beautiful Boys&rdquo\; by Camila Guti&ea cute\;rrez\, Department of Comparative Literature\n\nThe genre of Boys L ove (BL) took the form of comics in Japanese print media for girls since the 1970s. These comics feature beautiful young men who fall in love\, and their commercialization targets mainly heterosexual girls and young women readers. In the past decade\, Latin American artists have adapted BL while retaining core elements of the genre. I categorize this phenome non as third-wave Boys Love. Acknowledging the cultural stakes of this a daptation\, I read these comics from the framework of transculturation a nd nonencounter\, and weigh their potential as a new model of genre-worl d-literature. In this presentation\, I will map the waves of BL formatio n to demonstrate that the genre is an inherently transcultural phenomeno n\, having undergone an Occidentalization-modernization of Japanese prem odern same-sex love tropes\, a re-Japanization in the 1980s\, and curren tly a glocal reformation with new shapes.\n\nFor more details: https://e vents.la.psu.edu/event/hi_graduate_student_summer_resident_talks/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Talks by Graduate Student Summer Residents:

“Black Cosmo-cologies: Rebirth and Renaissance in the Long Nineteenth Century” by Eunice Toh, Departmen ts of English and African American Studies

In looking beyond ecology as simply metaphorical in literature, this talk s hows how Black ecology limns or haunts questions of liberation, world-ma king, and humanism in the writings of American authors. By replacing the “e” in ecology with “cosmo,” a Black cosmo-colo gy invites us to think of the metaphysical and the material together. My investment in cosmology as a framework to approach nineteenth-century A merican literary studies is in line with recent scholarship interested i n exploring cosmologies that encompass both science and faith in tandem. My work scrutinizes one Eurocentric cosmology in particular: the &ldquo ;renaissance.”

“To Invent a New Language: Theorizi ng Complex Communication as Decolonial Resistance” by Sarah Carey, Department of Philosophy

Bringing together the methodo logies of Lugones’s decolonial feminism and Derrida’s decons truction, I aim to give an account of the possibilities for linguistic r esistance under conditions of overwhelming colonial oppression. My proje ct analyzes mechanisms and motivations behind violent colonial uses of l anguage and evaluates alternative ways of communicating that seek to def y and resist coloniality. I argue that Lugones’s practice of compl ex communication is a promising practice of decolonial linguistic resist ance, insofar as it opens an opportunity for more liberatory understandi ngs of each other even while upholding moments of incommensurability and untranslatability. 

“Transculturations and nonenco unter in the Realm of Beautiful Boys” by Camila Gutié ;rrez, Department of Comparative Literature

The genre of Boys Love (BL) took the form of comics in Japanese print media for girls sinc e the 1970s. These comics feature beautiful young men who fall in love, and their commercialization targets mainly heterosexual girls and young women readers. In the past decade, Latin American artists have adapted B L while retaining core elements of the genre. I categorize this phenomen on as third-wave Boys Love. Acknowledging the cultural stakes of this ad aptation, I read these comics from the framework of transculturation and nonencounter, and weigh their potential as a new model of genre-world-l iterature. In this presentation, I will map the waves of BL formation to demonstrate that the genre is an inherently transcultural phenomenon, h aving undergone an Occidentalization-modernization of Japanese premodern same-sex love tropes, a re-Japanization in the 1980s, and currently a glocal reformation with new shapes.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/hi_graduate_student_summer_reside nt_talks/

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