by palumbo-liu | Aug 8, 2012 | Media Appearances, Events, Lectures
On March 1, 2012, I had the immense honor of speaking on a panel with the legendary activist Grace Lee Boggs and her collaborator, Professor Scott Kurashige on their new book, The Next American Revolution. The discussion ranged from grassroots organizing, her... by palumbo-liu | Aug 8, 2012 | Media Appearances, Events, Lectures
In May 2012 I served as the discussant for a lecture by Saskia Sassen on “Expulsion”. The talk was a powerful analysis of the sub-prime crisis in the North and the debt-servicing economies of the Global South. I will post a blog on this soon. by palumbo-liu | Aug 8, 2012 | Media Appearances, Events, Lectures
In March 2012 the new Program in Comparative Literature at Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco held its first international conference. The papers ranged across many subjects, each engaging with critical issues in the study of literature, with the specific location... by palumbo-liu | Aug 8, 2012 | Media Appearances, Events, Lectures
At the 2011 MLA, Sidonie Smith invited Marianne Hirsch, Françoise Lionnet, Nancy Miller, Robert Warrior and me to speak at her Presidential Forum on Narrating Lives. The essays were published in Profession. My essay, “Embedded Lives,” tells how a... by palumbo-liu | Aug 8, 2012 | Media Appearances, Events, Lectures
In 2010 Ramon Saldivar and I joined Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in a discussion of her lecture of this title. Ramon spoke about how hemispheric and trans-national studies gave a particular texture to “globalization” and cultural artifacts; I spoke on how...