BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260807T074954EDT-7965o6Z56g@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260807T114954Z DESCRIPTION:The Ninth Annual Post45 Graduate Symposium is being jointly hos ted by 91˿Ƶ and Concordia 22-23 March. The host committee warmly invites you two public events taking place as part of the Symposium. These are a keynote presentation by Prof. Alexander Manshel and a roundtable discussio n on the future of the post45 field that brings together faculty from both universities. Details below!\n\nPost45 Graduate Symposium\n\nPost45 is a collective of scholars working on American literature and culture since 19 45. The Post45 Graduate Symposium meets annually to discuss graduate stude nt works-in-progress. The chosen theme for the 2024 symposium is “futurity ” (e.g. future of the field(s)\, alternative futures\, dystopia\, utopia\, gender abolitionism\, afro-futurism\, anxieties of the future\, queer fut ures\, digital futures\, climate crisis\, altered states of consciousness) .\n\nKeynote Presentation: “High School English: A History of American Rea ding”\n\n13:00-14:00 - Saturday 23 March\n Location: Concordia University\, H-561\n Speaker: Alexander Manshel (91˿Ƶ)\n\nThe American secondary scho ol classroom is now—and\, for the last century\, has been—among the most i mportant and most overlooked venues for reading in the United States. Whil e researchers in the field of education have written an enormous amount on the methodologies of high school English\, in the field of literary studi es\, the high school English classroom—the place where more people read an d discuss and write about more literature than anywhere else—is nearly inv isible. High school English is the place where many lifelong readers are m ade\, and where many who never read literature again read it for the last time. It is also where the American literary canon and its relation to Ame ricanness writ large have proven most durable and most contentious. This t alk examines several key institutions of secondary school education since World War II—from Advanced Placement curricula to online study guide sites —in order to document both the 'high school canon' and the dominant interp retive strategies employed in reading it.\n\nRoundtable: “The State of the Field”\n 17:00-18:00 - Saturday 23 March\n Location: Concordia University\, LB-322\n Panelists: Mary Esteve (Concordia)\, Alexander Manshel (91˿Ƶ)\, Alex Blue (91˿Ƶ)\, and Aaron Bartels-Swindells (91˿Ƶ)\n\nIt hardly ne eds restating that the humanities faces challenges on multiple different f ronts. With funding cuts\, a shrinking job market\, large language models changing the way we read and write\, and increased cynicism about the real -world impacts of the environmental humanities\, doom-mongering abounds. Y et\, recent studies such as John Guillory’s Professing Criticism and Carol ine Levine’s Activist Humanist reassert the continued or indeed increased value of humanist scholarship too often\, as Guillory asserts\, “relegated in both past and present controversies to an ineffable expression of tast e or the intuitive cultivation of sensibility rather than a disciplined se t of procedures for the production and transmission of knowledge.” How sho uld we\, as young scholars working on post45\, best equip ourselves to nav igate these challenges and be effective participants in calls for renewal? \n\nPanelists will each give opening remarks in response to these question s before an extended discussion with the audience. This review by Sarah Br ouillette of Professing Criticism is recommended pre-reading.\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240323 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240323 LOCATION:CA\, QC\, Montreal\, Concordia University SUMMARY:Event: Post45 Graduate Symposium URL:/channels/channels/event/event-post45-graduate-sym posium-356075 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR