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SUMMARY:Dream of the Red Chamber and the Female Readers' Responsive Poetry
in the Nineteenth Century - Ann Waltner\, Professor of History\, Univers
ity of Minnesota
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LOCATION:LDC 104
DESCRIPTION:The Dr. Walter H. Judd Lectureship in Asian Studies fall talk
is presented by Ann Waltner\, Professor of History\, University of Minneso
ta\, titled "Dream of the Red Chamber and the Female Readers' Responsi
ve Poetry in the Nineteenth Century."\n\nThe Dream of the Red Chamber
(or The Story of the Stone) stands as one of China’s Four Great Classic
al Novels. Long before its official publication in 1791\, it captured the
imagination of readers—and sparked a rich tradition of literary commenta
ry. Join us for a talk exploring this monumental work and the vibrant poet
ry written by young female readers who engaged with it throughout the 19th
century.\n\nThis event is sponsored by The Dr. Walter H. Judd Lectureship
in Asian Studies and organized by the Department of Asian Languages &\
; Literatures.\n\nView this event on the Carleton College website:\nhttps:
//www.carleton.edu/_c/uuh4
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SUMMARY:Convocation with Valeria Luiselli | Beginnings and Endings\, or H
ow to Reimagine Time.
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LOCATION:Skinner Memorial Chapel
DESCRIPTION:Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South
Korea\, South Africa and India. An acclaimed Mexican writer of both fictio
n and nonfiction\, she is the author of the essays Tell Me How It Ends
and Sidewalks\; the sonic essay Echoes From the B
orderlands\; and the novels Faces in the Crowd\, T
he Story of My Teeth\, Lost Children Archive\, and
Beginning Middle End.\n\nShe is the recipient of a 2019 MacAr
thur Fellowship and the winner of Dublin Literary Award\, two Los Angeles
Times Book Prizes\, The Carnegie Medal\, an American Book Award\, and ha
s been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Kirkus P
rize\, and the Booker Prize. She has been the recipient of a Bearing Witne
ss Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund\, a Guggenheim Fellowship and
the Vilcek Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York T
imes\, Granta\, and McSweeney's\, among other publications\, and has been
translated into more than thirty languages. Her ongoing project in sound-s
capes and oral histories\, Echoes From the Borderlands\, has been featured
at the DIA Chelsea and the Harvard Art Lab\, among other plac
es.\n\nView this event on the Carleton College website:\nhttps://www.c
arleton.edu/_c/uun0
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SUMMARY:Fall 2026 Lefler Lecture: Dr. Rashauna Johnson Bittersweet Homes:
Placemaking in a Parish Haunted by History
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LOCATION:Leighton Hall 305
DESCRIPTION:Bittersweet Homes: Placemaking in a Parish Haunted by
History\n\nThis talk uses archival research and family memories t
o illuminate the lives and times of select figures who died and\, critical
ly\, also lived in the long arc of King Cotton. Drawing on select moments
in the history of the author's maternal grandmother's birthplace\, Louisia
na's Feliciana Parishes\, it meditates on the deeply contingent experience
s of 19th-Century "development" and "progress" and the ways those divergen
t experiences - and the memories to which they gave rise - haunt us all.\n
\nRashauna Johnson is a historian of the 19th-century African diaspora\, w
ith an emphasis on slavery and emancipation in the US South and Atlantic W
orld. She is especially interested in the limits and possibilities of arch
ival histories of enslaved and freed people and the worlds in which they l
abored and lived. Johnson teaches courses on race\, slavery\, and nation\;
methodologies of slavery studies\; and the 19th-century US.\n\nJohnson is
the author of <
em>Slavery’s Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of R
evolutions (Cambridge UP\, 2016\; paperback 2018)\, which was aw
arded the 2016 Williams Prize for the best book in Louisiana history and t
he 2018 H. L. Mitchell Award by the Southern Historical Association for th
e best book on the southern working class. Slavery's Metropolis was also named a finalist for the 2016 Berkshire Conference of Women's Hi
storians Book Prize\, honorable mention for the Urban History Association'
s Kenneth Jackson Award\, and a finalist for the 2017 Frederick Douglass B
ook Prize. Her second book\, Sweet Home Feliciana: Family\, Slavery\, and the Hauntings of History (Cambridge University Press\, 2026)\, uses her grandmother’s birt
hplace in rural Louisiana as a prism to illuminate foundational\, if fraug
ht\, aspects of US history including colonialism\, slavery\, war\, citizen
ship and unfinished freedom. That project has been supported by the Hutch
ins Center for African &\; African American Research at Harvard Univers
ity\, the Mellon Scholars Post-Doctoral Fellowship in African American Hi
story at the Library Company of Philadelphia\, and The Gilder Lehrman Inst
itute of American History. She is a co-editor of the Cambridge Histo
ry of the African Diaspora\, Volume Two: Slave Trades\, Dispersals\, and P
rocesses of Commodification (forthcoming 2027).\n\nView this event o
n the Carleton College website:\nhttps://www.carleton.edu/_c/uufg
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SUMMARY:The Frank G. and Jean M. Chesley Lectureship in Environmental Stud
ies by Dr. Jessica Hernandez: Fresh Roots\, Rising Waters: Indigenous Scie
nce as the Blueprint for Climate Justice
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LOCATION:Olin 149
DESCRIPTION:\n
\n
For generations\, Indigenous science has be
en dismissed as folklore rather than recognized as rigorous\, land-based k
nowledge accumulated through direct relationship with ecosystems. Dr. Jess
ica Hernandez (Maya Ch'orti' &\; Binnizá) draws on her work as founder
of Earth Daughters and author of Fresh Banana Leaves and
Growing Papaya Trees to reframe the climate conversation: colonialism
didn't just displace Indigenous peoples from their lands\, it displaced t
heir knowledge systems from the institutions now scrambling to solve the c
risis those systems could have prevented. This keynote traces the throughl
ine from ecological healing to climate displacement\, and makes the case t
hat climate justice is inseparable from Indigenous sovereignty\; over land
\, over research\, and over the frameworks we use to define what counts as
science.
\n
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\n\nPatricia
A. Morton is Associate Professor in the Media and Cultural Studies Depart
ment at the University of California\, Riverside.\n\nShe is author of Hybrid Modernities: Architecture and Representation at the 1931 Internati
onal Colonial Exposition in Paris (MIT Press). Her current project\,
Paying for the Public Life\, focuses on work by architect Charl
es W. Moore and changes to the public realm in the 1960s.\n\nView this eve
nt on the Carleton College website:\nhttps://www.carleton.edu/_c/uueA
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SUMMARY:The Migration to Abyssinia and the Ethiopic Quran\, A Talk by Dr.
Hamza Zafer\, Senior Lecturer in African Studies\, Princeton University
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LOCATION:Leighton 305
DESCRIPTION:View this event on the Carleton College website:\nhttps://www.
carleton.edu/_c/uubk
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SUMMARY:Night Owls with Agnes Callard (Chicago)
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LOCATION:The Athenaeum
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second Night Owls at Carleton. We are thrilled
to have Prof. Agnes Callard -- the originator of Night Owls at the University of
Chicago -- join us. Prof. Callard is an extraordinary philosopher who has
written two books (including the N
ew York Times Book Review Editors' Choic
e Open Socrates) and regularly publishes in
venues such as the New York Times and The Atlantic.\n\nTonight's topic: B
eing yourself. Most people\, most of the time\, keep parts of themselves h
idden from others (you should see how Prof. Groll behaves around his dog.
Actually\, you probably shouldn't.). Is that a shame? Is the ideal to alwa
ys be fully oneself -- never hiding any aspects of oneself -- all the time
? Or does it make sense -- even under ideal circumstances -- to have parts
of one's identity that are for some people\, but not others? How open and
honest should we be with (all) others? Come share your thoughts\, yoursel
f (all in or in part) and some pizza (on us). This time\, there might be s
wag for anyone that takes part in the conversation!\n\nView this event on
the Carleton College website:\nhttps://www.carleton.edu/_c/uub0
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SUMMARY:Reading *Trust* with Hernán Díaz
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LOCATION:TBD
DESCRIPTION:Hernán Díaz\, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary
American fiction\, will visit Carleton on November 4–5 as the special g
uest of the Light Lectureship.
\nIn anticip
ation of his visit\, we invite faculty and staff to join a reading group d
evoted to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Trust\, culminating in a conversation with
Diaz himself.
\nDíaz’s first novel\, In the Distance\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\; his secon
d\, Trust\, won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
\nAcross these two remarkably different novels\, Díaz
returns to some of the foundational myths of American culture — the fro
ntier\, the self-made individual\, money\, power\, and the creation of eno
rmous wealth — while radically reinventing the literary forms through wh
ich those myths have traditionally been told. In the Distance re
imagines the western from the perspective of a lost immigrant moving again
st the great westward migration\; Trust takes apart the novel o
f wealth and finance by telling the same story through four competing narr
atives. In both\, Diaz inhabits recognizable American genres only to estra
nge them from within\, asking who gets to tell the stories through which A
merica imagines itself.
\nThe reading group
will meet once to discuss Trust (date/time TBD). On November 4\
, Díaz will give a talk about his fiction and how he situates his work wi
thin American literature. On November 5\, members of the group will have t
he opportunity to discuss Trust with Díaz himself — a rare ch
ance to continue our reading in conversation with the author.
\nThe reading group is sponsored by the Department of S
panish in collaboration with the Humanities Center. Copies of Trust will be available for all participants interested in joining the group
. If you would like to participate and receive a copy of the novel\, pleas
e contact Jorge Brioso (jbrioso@carl
eton.edu) and Dan Groll (dgroll@c
arleton.edu) by September 30.
\n\nView this event
on the Carleton College website:\nhttps://www.carleton.edu/_c/uub8
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SUMMARY:Jazz Area Concert
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LOCATION:Kracum Performance Hall
DESCRIPTION:The Carleton Jazz Ensemble presents
their fall concert!\n\nView this event on the Carleton College web
site:\nhttps://www.carleton.edu/_c/uua0
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SUMMARY:Book Celebration: Jessica Keating\, Impossible Nature – The Worl
ds of Giuseppe Arcimboldo
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LOCATION:TBD
DESCRIPTION:A gathering to celebrate the publication of Professor Jessica
Keating's new book: Impossible Nature. The World of Giuseppe Arcimbol
do (University of Chicago Press\, 2026).\n\nMore information coming s
oon.\n\nView this event on the Carleton College website:\nhttps://www.carl
eton.edu/_c/uubh
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