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

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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 of our English department’s postdoctoral fellow!

Winter 2020 COMMA Reading Group Meets Friday, February 14th

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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” from A Grammar of the Multitude: http://www.sduk.us/afterwork/virno_a_grammar_of_the.pdf

Winter 2020 COMMA Reading Group Meets Friday, January 31st

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Friday, January 31st, 3:00-5:00 p.m. in the Sankey Room (South Hall 2623).

Please join our discussion of the following readings:

Peter Stallybrass, “Marx and Heterogeneity: Thinking the Lumpenproletariat”

Hal Draper, “The Lumpen-class Versus the Proletariat”

Winter 2020 COMMA Special Event: PARASITE Film Screening

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A COMMA Special Event!

Friday, January 17th, 2:00-5:00 p.m. in the Fishbowl (South Hall 2635).

Please join us for a screening of Bong Joon-Ho’s 2019 film Parasite.

The film will be shown at 2:00 p.m., with discussion, food and refreshments to follow.

Don’t miss this exciting event!