When:Â Every Monday (except Holidays) during the semester Time:Â 4:15pm - 5:45pm Where:Â Room 14N-417 Come by for snacks, and tea with Literature Section friends, instructors, students, etc. What are you reading? What 21L classes are you taking or hoping to take? This event is specifically geared towards undergrads; but open to friends of the community that engage in the literary and humanities at MIT.
When:Â Every Monday (except Holidays) during the semester Time:Â 4:15pm - 5:45pm Where:Â Room 14N-417 Come by for snacks, and tea with Literature Section friends, instructors, students, etc. What are you reading? What 21L classes are you taking or hoping to take? This event is specifically geared towards undergrads; but open to friends of the community that engage in the literary and humanities at MIT.
Presented by Eléonore Lépinard, Professor in Gender Studies Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lausanne Date: Monday, October 7th Location: Building 14, 14E-304 (map)  Abstract: Muslim women wearing simple headscarves (hijab) have been at the center of intense public scrutiny for several decades in many European countries, and they experience widespread ordinary forms of gendered and racialized discrimination. This study of veiled Muslim women’s reported experiences of stigmatization in France and Switzerland identifies types of interactions that are conceptualized as pedagogies of coloniality. These interactions follow similar scripts in which interlocutors, who are members of the majority group, ask hijabi women to unveil or to veil differently even though it is not legally required in the context of the interaction. This presentation will explore the intersection and articulation of sexism and Islamophobia, as well as class and age, as necessary components enabling the negotiations to submit and discipline veiled Muslim women. It will detail the various processes of otherization at play, and the hierarchies that these interactions attempt to enforce and maintain, including between women. Bio: Eléonore Lépinard is Professor in gender studies at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lausanne. Her main areas of research are in the […]
When:Â Every Monday (except Holidays) during the semester Time:Â 4:15pm - 5:45pm Where:Â Room 14N-417 Come by for snacks, and tea with Literature Section friends, instructors, students, etc. What are you reading? What 21L classes are you taking or hoping to take? This event is specifically geared towards undergrads; but open to friends of the community that engage in the literary and humanities at MIT.
Imani Perry is the Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and a Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at The Radcliffe Institute. She is the author of eight books, including South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, which won the 2023 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Dr. Perry is also a MacArthur Fellow, and co-director of The Black Teacher Archive. The Green-Taylor Lectures is a speaker series celebrating the intersections of Black Studies, Architecture and Design. Over the course of the year, the series will feature voices from across these fields in an effort to illuminate both the unique history of African American architects here at MIT—the Institute's first Black graduate, Robert R. Taylor, as well as two of the first Black women to attend MIT, Marie Turner and Gloria Green, all studied architecture during their time on campus—and contemporary work in the field that honors the role of worldmaking in the Black expressive tradition.
When:Â Every Monday (except Holidays) during the semester Time:Â 4:15pm - 5:45pm Where:Â Room 14N-417 Come by for snacks, and tea with Literature Section friends, instructors, students, etc. What are you reading? What 21L classes are you taking or hoping to take? This event is specifically geared towards undergrads; but open to friends of the community that engage in the literary and humanities at MIT.
Presented by Matthew Edholm, Visiting Fellow at the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts Abstract: This paper examines the way in which two authors of the mid-ninth century, Rudolf of Fulda and Brun Candidus, used classical Roman sources silently within their own work. Rudolf silently quotes from Tacitus’s Germania and elsewhere from Vitruvius’s De architectura; while Brun often adopts phrases and half-lines culled primarily from the poetry of Virgil and Ovid and stitches them into his own lines in his Metrical Life of Eigil (Vita Aeigilis). I will argue that both Rudolf and Brun receive and re-shape past Roman writers in order to make them re-signify and speak toward Christian purposes relevant to the monastery of Fulda. Furthermore, the paper will situate this practice of re-writing past authors within the context of Late Antique art and poetic aesthetics in order to demonstrate the origin of the style, as well as that style’s application to Carolingian reliquaries and material artefacts. In this way it will map out a Carolingian aesthetic of refashioning the past to serve the needs of the (medieval) present. Bio: After serving three years in the army, I completed a Bachelor’s degree in Humanities from Lee University. After this I received an MLitt with […]
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