About this Event
Location: ICC Auditorium
Date & Time: 4/29/2024 - 4PM
Professor Saree Makdisi (UCLA) will present a lecture on Romanticism, John Clare, and the making of England as a Western nation. A 45-minute lecture will be followed by 30 minutes for audience Q&A.
Georgetown University students, faculty, and staff must present a GUID to attend this event. Non-university guests must register via Eventbrite and present photo ID. A bag check will be implemented by the Georgetown University Police Department; no large bags are permitted in the auditorium.
This lecture is brought to Georgetown University by the generosity of the Lacay Endowment.
Our Guest Lecturer, Prof. Saree Makdisi:
Saree Makdisi received his BA in English and Economics from Wesleyan University in 1987 and his PhD from the Literature Program at Duke University in 1993.
Professor Makdisi’s teaching and research are situated at the crossroads of several different fields, including British Romanticism, imperial culture, colonial and postcolonial theory and criticism, and the cultures of urban modernity, particularly the revision and contestation of charged urban spaces, including London, Beirut and Jerusalem. He has also written extensively on the afterlives of colonialism in the contemporary Arab world, and, in addition to his scholarly articles, has also contributed pieces on current events to a number of newspapers and magazines, including the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and the London Review of Books.
His most recent book is (University of California Press, 2022). He is also the author of (Cambridge University Press, 2015); (University of Chicago Press, 2014); (Norton, 2010); (University of Chicago Press, 2003); and (Cambridge University Press, 1998). He is presently working on a new book project, London’s Modernities, on the mapping and unmapping of London from the nineteenth century to the present.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Intercultural Center (ICC), 1501 Tondorf Road, Washington, United States
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