{"id":17476,"date":"2019-10-22T11:29:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T15:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?p=17476"},"modified":"2025-08-21T16:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:27:14","slug":"babel-graduate-student-reading-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/2019\/babel-graduate-student-reading-group\/","title":{"rendered":"BABEL: Graduate Student Reading Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n BABEL: Graduate Student Reading Group\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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Organized by a professor from the English department, the graduate student reading group is a great way to explore literary and cultural theory at both beginner and advanced levels. This longstanding group is known for its relaxed atmosphere and for bringing grad students and profs together to expand their theoretical knowledge in directions not covered by coursework. During the first few weeks of classes, BABEL’s faculty facilitator arranges a meeting with interested grad students to create a reading list and to arrange a schedule for the year. Even though the reading group is not a formal requirement to the program, students are encouraged to attend this venue, since its exploratory scope will greatly assist them in developing the theoretical dimensions of their research projects, grant proposals, and dissertations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winter 2025<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Tues. Jan. 28<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Jean-Jacques Lecercle’s Philosophy of Nonsense <\/em>(Introduction, pp. 1-26)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Past Sessions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Fall 2023<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    Tues. Nov. 7<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • Introduction to Mari Ruti’s The Singularity of Being<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Fall 2021<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

      Fri. Sept. 24<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      • Planning meeting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

        Winter 2020<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

        Thurs. Jan. 23<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        • Donna Haraway, “Anthropocene, Capitalocence, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin,” Environmental Humanities<\/em> 6 (2015), 159-165<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

          Thurs. Feb. 13<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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          • Mikhail Bakhtin, excerpts from Rabelais and his World: <\/em>Holquist Prologue, Bakhtin Intro, and Chapter 1 pages 59-94.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

            Thurs. Mar. 12<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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            • Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, <\/em>pages 22 – 68<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

              NOTE<\/strong>: All meetings in Gordon Wood Lounge (DT 1811) with the exception of the meeting on Feb. 13th which will be held in DT 1816. Readings are available as PDFs. Please contact the Graduate Administrator.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

              Fall 2019<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

              Oct 17: Derridean deconstruction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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              • selections from Margins of Philosophy: <\/em>12-15, 309-330 (1982)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • selections from Of Grammatology: <\/em>xiv-xxi, lxvi-lxxix, 27-39, 68-73, 144-164 (1974)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

                Nov 14: recent thinking on the commons<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                • Slavoj Zizek, \u201cHow To Begin From the Beginning\u201d (2009)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Lauren Berlant, \u201cThe commons: infrastructures for troubling times\u201d (2016)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

                  Dec 5: conjunctural analysis in cultural studies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                  • selections from Stuart Hall et al, Policing the Crisis<\/em>: read Intro, 218-227, 254-272, 306-323, 378-397 (1978)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                  • Jeremy Gilbert, \u201cThis Conjuncture\u201d (2019)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

                    NOTE<\/strong>: All meetings in Gordon Wood Lounge (DT 1811). Readings are available as PDFs. Please contact the Graduate Administrator.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                    Fall 2017<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

                    Friday, October 20th, 1:00-2:30<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

                    Walter Benjamin, \u201cParis, Capital of the Nineteenth Century\u201d Perspecta<\/em> 12 (1969): 163-72.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                    Siegfried Kracauer, \u201cTwo Planes,\u201d \u201cAnalysis of a City Map,\u201d and \u201cFarewell to the Linden Arcade,\u201d from The Mass Ornament<\/em> (36-44, 336-342) [these are extremely short]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                    Friday, November 3rd, 1:00-2:30<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

                    Jane Jacobs, \u201cThe Uses of City Neighborhoods,\u201d The Death and Life of American Cities <\/em>(112-140).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                    Friday, November 17th, 1:00-2:30<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

                    Peter Stallybrass and Allon White, \u201cThe City: The Sewer, The Gaze, and the Contaminating Touch,\u201d The Politics and Poetics of Transgression<\/em> (125-48).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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