Events

Calendar of Events 

Mar
20
Wed
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Binghamton University Art Museum, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Binghamton, NY 13901, USA

Angie Cruz is a novelist and editor whose most recent novel is How Not To Drown in A Glass of Water (2022). It was shortlisted by The Aspen Words Literary Prize, winner of the Gold Medal, Latino Book Award/The Isabel Allende Most Inspirational Book Award, longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize and chosen for The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2022 and The Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction. Her novel Dominicana was the inaugural book pick for GMA book club and shortlisted for The Women’s Prize, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction, a RUSA Notable book and the winner of the ALA/YALSA Alex Award in fiction. It was also named most anticipated/ best book in 2019 by TimeNewsweekPeopleOprah Magazine, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Esquire. Cruz is also the author of two other novels, Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee.

Registration is required.

Mar
23
Sat
8:00am - 6:30pm
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Teagan Bradway (She/They) Scholars across disciplines have long contended with the generative potentials and the deficiencies of affect and emotions like sorrow, melancholy, compassion, grief, sympathy, and happiness. Judith Butler has shown how feelings of loss and acts of mourning are political acts of subjectivity, of rendering a life grievable or forgotten. Sara Ahmed speaks about the promise of happiness that obscures unhappy hierarchies in the world around us, and calls for a killjoy politics. Lauren Berlant tells us that optimism is not just an emotion, but a cruel relation we have with our socio-economic forces. These ideas, in addition to dismantling the hierarchical binary between emotions and reason, have also brought to attention the hierarchical construction of ‘cultivated’, ‘elevated’ emotions as opposed to ‘lower’, ‘weaker’ emotions (Ahmed). These feminist and anti-racist engagements with affect and emotions are particularly important to pay attention to in this global moment of rise in anti-intellectualism, neocolonial occupations and strengthening authoritarian regimes. We invite all artists, activists, and the academic community to join this continuing conversation. We turn to literature to both celebrate it as an emotive, expressive, generative artform, and also to find meaningful ways to make visible the important work of emotions as socio-cultural and political practice. We invite participants to address questions including but not limited to: ● How can we read intentional political acts and their relations to emotions? ● How and to what end does art evoke an emotional response from its audience? ● What are the limitations of turning to affect or emotions in moments of material dispossession? ● What are the limits to considering emotions as a universal heuristic? ● What are the affordances and limitations of emotions with regard to building solidarity against oppressive power structures? We invite scholars (including undergraduates) from all disciplines, along with artists and activists to send their abstracts of no more than 250 words to stab.binghamton@gmail.com For questions, contact stab.binghamton@gmail.com
Apr
17
Wed
6:00pm - 7:00pm
The Jeanne & Jay Benet Alumni Lounge

Wednesday, April 17th at 6pm | Jeanne & Jay Benet Alumni Lounge

Join the Common Ground reading series and experience live readings from undergraduate & graduate writers.

This installement is a dissertation focused reading for graduating creative writing students.

Apr
25
Thu
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Binghamton Art Museum

Thursday, April 25th 6pm | Binghamton Art Museum

In this third annual collaboration between the Binghamton University Music Department and Creative Writing Program, composers, writers and performers create genre-defying compositions that celebrate poetry, music and the singing voice. The performance will coincide with the Binghamton University Art Museum's exhibition, Painted Exchanges: Artists and Printmakers.

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