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COMMA READING GROUP, 2020-21: POSSIBLE FUTURES

September 21, 2021 in /by

COMMA READING GROUP, 2020-21: POSSIBLE FUTURES During the UCSB Covid Lockdown, COMMA continued with a full schedule of on-line Reading Group meetings. The year’s theme was POSSIBLE FUTURES. Here are the poster announcements for each of the meetings during the academic year 2020-21.

Winter 2020 COMMA Lecture Series, Post-doctoral Fellow Jesse Miller, Friday, February 28th

February 28, 2020 in /by

You are all invited to attend a talk by Jesse Miller, this year’s Postdoctoral Fellow of Literature and Medical Humanities, entitled “Troping the Literary Clinic: Metaphors for Reading in a Therapeutic Culture”. Friday, February 28th, 3:00-5:00 p.m. in the Sankey Room (South Hall 2623). Discussion and refreshment to follow. Please join us to support the outstanding work […]

Winter 2020 COMMA Reading Group Meets Friday, February 14th

February 14, 2020 in /by

Friday, February 14th, 3:00-5:00 p.m. in the Sankey Room (South Hall 2623). Frantz Fanon, “Grandeur and Weakness of Spontaneity” from The Wretched of the Earthhttp://home.ku.edu.tr/~mbaker/CSHS503/FrantzFanon.pdf Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, “Preface, Life in Common” and selections from Part II, “Multitude” (pp. 99-115, 129-138, 189-190, and 211-219) from Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire: http://rebels-library.org/files/multitude.pdf Paolo Virno, “Introduction” […]