Twentieth Century Area Studies Group
The Twentieth Century Studies Group is DSC-chartered organization for a group of students at the CUNY Graduate Center that provides a place for an exchange of ideas concerning the historical period and concept known as the Twentieth Century. The group aims to foster discussion between inter-disciplinary areas of study as well as provide a place for students to seek advice concerning professionalization, the state of the discipline, and for students to think through their own interests while using the “Twentieth Century” as a lens through which to view any number of different issues. The group meets regularly in order to plan events like speakers, panel discussions, and conferences with the aim of providing a public platform for Twentieth Century Studies at the Graduate Center. In addition, current and past activities have included sponsored talks and student-led reading studies groups and writing groups that meet throughout the academic year. The group also places an emphasis on the professional advice that event participants can extend to graduate students and wishes to provide an environment that facilitates communication between event participants and Twentieth Century Studies area group members. Membership is open to any and all Graduate Center students.
Recent group activity
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Jason Nielsen wrote a new blog post Friday, October 26th, 4-6 pm, Room 4406, Jed Esty (University of Pennsylvania) – "Occidentalism Revisited: Conrad, Nabokov, and the Pornography of the West" in the group
Twentieth Century Area Studies Group: 6 months, 4 weeks agoTwentieth Century studies field related talk:
Friday, October 26, 2012
4:00 PM, Room 4406
Professor Jed Esty
University of Pennsylvania
Occidentalism Revisited: Conrad, Nabokov, and the Pornography of the […] -
Jason Nielsen wrote a new blog post upcoming field related talks – details added soon in the group
Twentieth Century Area Studies Group: 8 months, 1 week agoFriday Forum talk – 9/21, 4-6pm – James F. English (Penn), Any Time But Now: Default Temporality in the Post-1960s Novel
Friday Forum talk – 10/26 – 4-6pm – Jed Esty (UPenn) “Occidentalism Revisited: Conrad, […]
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Jason Nielsen wrote a new blog post Friday, September 14th, 2-4pm, Room 5409 – Joe Cleary (Yale) – London Bridge is Falling Down: Irish and American Modernisms, Empire, and World Literature in the group
Twentieth Century Area Studies Group: 8 months, 1 week ago
The CUNY Graduate Center 20th/21st-Century Area Studies Group Speaker Series Fall 2012
Joe Cleary
London Bridge is Falling Down: Irish and American Modernisms, Empire, and World Literature
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Jason Nielsen wrote a new blog post Summer reading group – contemporary fiction group in the group
Twentieth Century Area Studies Group: 8 months, 1 week agoSummer 2012:
Toni Morrison - Home
Tom McCarthy – Remainder
Dodie Bellamy - Letters of Mina Harker
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Paul L. Hebert joined the group
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Sean Kennedy joined the group
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Danica Savonick joined the group
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Colin Dekeersgieter joined the group
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Jason Nielsen wrote a new blog post Friday, April 27th, 12-2pm, Room 5409 – Terry Rowden (College of Staten Island, CUNY) – "Metablackness" in the group
Twentieth Century Area Studies Group: 1 year, 1 month agoTerry Rowden (College of Staten Island, CUNY)
Friday, April 27th, 12-2pm, Room 5409
“Metablackness”
Looking beyond concepts like post-Civil Rights, post-Negritude, postrace, and postblack, in this paper I […]
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Jason Nielsen wrote a new blog post Thursday, April 26th, 3-5 PM – Laura Frost (New School) – “The Problem of Pleasure: Stein’s Tickle” in the group
Twentieth Century Area Studies Group: 1 year, 1 month agoLaura Frost at the CUNY Graduate Center
Thursday, April 26th, 3-5 p.m.
“The Problem of Pleasure: Stein’s Tickle”
This talk will consider the nature of Steinian pleasure: that is, whether and how her […]
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Jason Nielsen wrote a new blog post Monday, April 23, 4:00-6:00 pm, Room 5409 – A Conversation about Contemporary Literary Biography with Adam Begley and D.T. Max in the group
Twentieth Century Area Studies Group: 1 year, 1 month agoA Conversation about Contemporary Literary Biography with Adam Begley and D.T. Max
Monday, April 23, 4:00-6:00 pm, Room 5409
Please join Leon Levy Center for Biography fellows D.T. Max and Adam Begley for a […]
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Jason Nielsen wrote a new blog post March 2, 2012 – Andrew Parker (Amherst College) – "The Theorist's Mother" in the group
Twentieth Century Area Studies Group: 1 year, 1 month agoNotice of field related talk – Friday Forum:
Friday, March 2, 2012
4:00 PM, Room 4406
Andrew C. Parker
Amherst College
The Theorist’s Mother
Noting how the mother is made to disappear […]
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Jason Nielsen wrote a new blog post Friday, March 2, 2012 – Paul K. Saint-Amour (University of Pennsylvania) – "On the Partiality of Total War: From Charlton to Joyce" in the group
Twentieth Century Area Studies Group: 1 year, 1 month agoNotice of field related talk – Friday Forum:
Friday, March 2, 2012
2:00PM, Room 4406
Paul K. Saint-Amour
University of Pennsylvania
On the Partiality of Total War: From Charlton to Joyce
An […]
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Jason Nielsen wrote a new blog post February 24, 2012 – Allison Pease (John Jay) – "Boredom in/and Feminist Modernist Fiction" in the group
Twentieth Century Area Studies Group: 1 year, 1 month agoThe CUNY Graduate Center Twentieth Century Area Studies Group Speaker Series Spring 2012
Allison Pease
John Jay, CUNY
Boredom in/and Feminist Modernist Fiction
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Jason Nielsen wrote a new blog post February 3, 2012 – Rebecca L. Walkowitz (Rutgers University) – “Where is Summertime?” in the group
Twentieth Century Area Studies Group: 1 year, 1 month agoNotice of field related talk – Friday Forum:
Friday, February 3, 2012
4:00 PM, Room 4406
Rebecca L. Walkowitz
Rutgers University
Where is Summertime?
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Jason Nielsen wrote a new blog post February 3, 2012 – Rebecca L. Walkowitz (Rutgers University) – "Where is Summertime?" in the group
Twentieth Century Area Studies Group: 1 year, 1 month agoFriday, February 3, 2012
4:00 PM, Room 4406
Rebecca L. Walkowitz
Rutgers University
Where is Summertime?
In a global novel – a novel that aspires to planetary circulation, distributes its plot across distant […] -
Sarah Ruth Jacobs joined the group
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Jason Nielsen created the group
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