The English Institute 2023

Friday, September 22


1:00  Welcome


1:15  Zakiyyah Iman Jackson 

University of Southern California

"Approaching the Event Horizon"


3:00 Joseph Jonghyun Jeon 

University of California, Irvine 

"Migrant Crash"


4:30-5:00  coffee break


5:00 Anna Brickhouse 

University of Virginia

"Catastrophically Wrong" 


6:30  Opening Reception



Saturday, September 23


8:30  Continental Breakfast


9:00 Jodi A. Byrd 

Cornell University

"Accumulated Catastrophes"


10:45 Edgar Garcia 

University of Chicago 

"Caravaggio’s Americas"


12:15-12:45  coffee break


12:45  The Conversation


1:45  Lunch


3:00 Sonya Posmentier

New York University 

"your studies shall become Life Studies"


4:45 Feisal Mohamed 

Yale University 

"How Bad Can Things Get?"


6:15  Closing Reception