Department of English

Tomorrow

1. Molly Nichols Dissertation Presentation
   • Where: Bryan Hall Faculty Lounge
   • Start time: 12:00pm
   • End time: 01:00pm
2. Jahan Ramazani, Faculty Lecture Series, "A Poetics of Postmourning: Elegy and the Caribbean"
   • Where: Bryan Hall Faculty Lounge
   • Start time: 02:00pm
   • End time: 03:00pm

   • Whereas the historical trauma of the Middle Passage and enslavement has been a prominent subject of Caribbeanist scholarship, there is surprisingly little sustained consideration of how imaginative works mourn this violent past. Building on the concept of 'postmemory' for the transgenerational aftereffects of trauma, this talk develops an overlapping concept of postmourning for the grief transferred to later generations and enacted in their creative work. It argues that elegies, though largely neglected as a genre of Caribbean writing, constitute a prominent literary site in which postmourning and remourning are undertaken.

Saturday, November 2nd

1. Sofia Samatar, Opacities – in Conversation with Emily Ogden
   • Where: New Dominion Bookshop: New Books & Gifts, 404 E Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22902, USA
   • Start time: 07:00pm
   • End time: 08:00pm

Thursday, November 7th

1. Laleh Khadivi Fiction Reading
   • Where: Monroe Hill House 252 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903, United States
   • Start time: 05:00pm
   • End time: 06:00pm

Monday, November 11th

1. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram & Nick Montfort AI Talk
   • Where: English Faculty Lounge, Bryan Hall, Second Floor, 229A
   • Start time: 05:00pm
   • End time: 06:00pm

Tuesday, November 19th

1. Camille Dungy Reading & Kapnick Writers Gala
   • Where: Newcomb Hall Ballroom
   • Start time: 06:00pm
   • End time: 08:00pm