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:4474-db093b5609726461427d0adfd0a939d9@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260911T180252Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220318T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220318T130000 SUMMARY:Penn State\'s Center for American Literary Studies presents \"Now What?\ " What Now?: Approaching a Precarious Present DESCRIPTION:\nThe February 2021 issue of Harper&rsquo\;s Magazine\, titl ed &ldquo\;Now What?&rdquo\;\, includes a special section devoted to spe culation on multiple facets of &ldquo\;Life After Trump.&rdquo\; As with commentary speculating about a COVID-19 world\, characterizing the post -Trump era as an unprecedented &ldquo\;now&rdquo\; presumes temporal cla rity\, including a clearly demarcated present. Such characterizations th us greatly simplify our contemporary moment\, framing complex forces&mda sh\;like Trumpist politics and pandemic repercussions&mdash\;according t o a simple before-and-after logic. How can we better account for the ful l complexity of an ever-shifting present? Bringing together three schola rs whose work surveys this terrain\, this webinar considers what it mean s to direct our critical attention to &ldquo\;now.&rdquo\; \n\nPanelists :\n\nTheodore Martin\, Associate Professor of English\, University of Ca lifornia\, Irvine\n\nMartin is the author of Contemporary Drift: Genre\, Historicism\, and the Problem of the Present (Columbia University Press 2017). He is currently writing a book entitled &ldquo\;American Literat ure&rsquo\;s War on Crime\,&rdquo\; an excerpt of which received honorab le mention for the 2021 William Riley Parker Prize for best essay in PML A.\n\n \;\n\nCaren Irr\, Professor of English\, Brandeis University\ n\nIrr teaches in the English\, Environmental Studies\, and Film program s at Brandeis University. She is the author of three monographs and has edited five collections--most recently Life in Plastic: Artistic Respons es to Petromodernity (University of Minnesota Press 2021) and Adorno' \;s &ldquo\;Minima Moralia&rdquo\; in the 21st Century: Fascism\, Work\, and Ecology (Bloomsbury Academic 2021).\n\n \;\n\nAna Cooke\, Assis tant Professor of English\, Penn State\n\nCooke&rsquo\;s research focuse s on how networked media shapes public and professional discourses\, par ticularly in collaborative online environments. Her current book project \, &ldquo\;Collaborating in Public\,&rdquo\; traces how the global-warmi ng related articles in Wikipedia have changed over time\, particularly i n the wake of the 2007 International Panel on Climate Change Fourth Asse ssment Report.\n\n \;\n\nModerator:\n\nJoe Glinbizzi\, Graduate Stud ent\, Department of English\, Penn State\n\nhttps://psu.zoom.us/webinar/ register/WN_0pGKj_fCSnKc6u7ViHV4Ig\n\n \;\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email\n\n \;containing information abou t joining the webinar.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/ev ent/penn_states_center_for_american_literary_studies_presents_now_what_s peculations_on_precarity_and_the_contemporary_4861/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The February 20 21 issue of Harper’s Magazine, titled “Now What?”, inc ludes a special section devoted to speculation on multiple facets of &ld quo;Life After Trump.” As with commentary speculating about a COVI D-19 world, characterizing the post-Trump era as an unprecedented &ldquo ;now” presumes temporal clarity, including a clearly demarcated pr esent. Such characterizations thus greatly simplify our contemporary mom ent, framing complex forces—like Trumpist politics and pandemic re percussions—according to a simple before-and-after logic. How can we better account for the full complexity of an ever-shifting present? B ringing together three scholars whose work surveys this terrain, this we binar considers what it means to direct our critical attention to &ldquo ;now.”

Panelists:

Theodore Martin, Associate Profe ssor of English, University of California, Irvine

Martin is th e author of Contemporary Drift: Genre, Historicism, and the Problem o f the Present (Columbia University Press 2017). He is currently writ ing a book entitled “American Literature’s War on Crime,&rdq uo; an excerpt of which received honorable mention for the 2021 William Riley Parker Prize for best essay in PMLA.

 

Caren Irr, Professor of English, Brandeis University

Irr teach es in the English, Environmental Studies, and Film programs at Brandeis University. She is the author of three monographs and has edited five co llections--most recently Life in Plastic: Artistic Responses to Petro modernity (University of Minnesota Press 2021) and Adorno's < /i>“Minima Moralia” in the 21st Century: Fascism, Work, and Ecology (Bloomsbury Academic 2021).

 

Ana Cooke, Assistant Professor of English, Penn State

Cooke&rs quo;s research focuses on how networked media shapes public and professi onal discourses, particularly in collaborative online environments. Her current book project, “Collaborating in Public,” traces how the global-warming related articles in Wikipedia have changed over time, particularly in the wake of the 2007 International Panel on Climate Cha nge Fourth Assessment Report.

 

Moderator:

Joe Glinbizzi, Graduate Student, Department of English, Penn State

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