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:14774-db093b5609726461427d0adfd0a939d9@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260809T230613Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220318T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220318T130000 SUMMARY:\"Now What?\" What Now?: Approaching a Precarious Present DESCRIPTION:The February 2021 issue of Harper’s Magazine\, titled “Now W hat?”\, includes a special section devoted to speculation on multiple fa cets of “Life After Trump.” As with commentary speculating about a COVID -19 world\, characterizing the post-Trump era as an unprecedented “now” presumes temporal clarity\, including a clearly demarcated present. Such characterizations thus greatly simplify our contemporary moment\, frami ng complex forces—like Trumpist politics and pandemic repercussions—acco rding to a simple before-and-after logic. How can we better account for the full complexity of our precarious present? Bringing together three s cholars whose work surveys this terrain\, this webinar considers what it means to direct critical attention to “now.”\n\nPanelists include:\n\nT heodore Martin\, Associate Professor of English\, University of Californ ia\, Irvine. Martin is the author of Contemporary Drift: Genre\, Histori cism\, and the Problem of the Present (Columbia University Press 2017). He is currently writing a book entitled “American Literature’s War on Cr ime\,” an excerpt of which received honorable mention for the 2021 Willi am Riley Parker Prize for best essay in PMLA.\nCaren Irr\, Professor of English\, Brandeis University. Irr teaches in the English\, Environmenta l Studies\, and Film programs at Brandeis University. She is the author of three monographs and has edited five collections--most recently Life in Plastic: Artistic Responses to Petromodernity (University of Minnesot a Press 2021) and Adorno's “Minima Moralia” in the 21st Century: Fascism \, Work\, and Ecology (Bloomsbury Academic 2021).\nAna Cooke\, Assistant Professor of English\, Penn State. Cooke’s research focuses on how netw orked media shapes public and professional discourses\, particularly in collaborative online environments. Her current book project\, “Collabora ting in Public\,” traces how the global-warming related articles in Wiki pedia have changed over time\, particularly in the wake of the 2007 Inte rnational Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report.\n\nModerator :\n\nJoe Glinbizzi\, Graduate Student\, Department of English\, Penn Sta te\n\nPlease view the webinar here.\n\nFor more details: https://events. la.psu.edu/event/now-what-what-now-approaching-a-precarious-present-2/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The February 2021 issue of Harper’s Magazine, titled “Now What ?”, includes a special section devoted to speculation on multiple facets of “Life After Trump.” As with commentary speculating about a COVID-19 world, characterizing the post-Trump era as an unprecedented “now” presu mes temporal clarity, including a clearly demarcated present. Such chara cterizations thus greatly simplify our contemporary moment, framing comp lex forces—like Trumpist politics and pandemic repercussions—according t o a simple before-and-after logic. How can we better account for the ful l complexity of our precarious present? Bringing together three scholars whose work surveys this terrain, this webinar considers what it means t o direct critical attention to “now.”

Pan elists include:

Moderator:

Please view the webinar here.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/e vent/now-what-what-now-approaching-a-precarious-present-2/

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