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Junot D�az Symposium- May 18-19, 2012

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The goal of "Junot D�az: A Symposium" is to assess the literary and cultural significance of Pulitzer Prize-winning Dominican American writer Junot D�az. Junot D�az's short fiction, novel, essays, and interviews are changing the landscape of Am�rican imaginaries. In hosting this event, we are bringing scholars working within the paradigms of Latina/o literary and cultural studies into conversation with those working on immigrant and diasporic cultures to appraise what we consider an emergent dialogue in the fields of Latina/o, Latin American, and U.S. critical studies. Participants are both established and emergent scholars who come from a variety of universities, departments, and field-imaginaries.

Our schedule consists of four roundtables and a CCSRE Kieve Distinguished Address given by Junot D�az. The roundtables will address the separate but interrelated themes of the symposium: the place of Junot D�az's trans-American fiction and essays in 21st-century Am�rican literatures and cultures; the planetary forces animating his texts; the continued and perhaps resurgent significance of race, latinidad, gender, sexuality, ability, and poverty as analytic and experiential categories in his fiction and essays. In opting for a roundtable format, our aim is for the symposium to proceed less as a series of monologues and more as a series of dialogues and debates that develop over the course of our two days together.

Applications for the Community Research Summer Internship are now available

Professor Sald�var speaks at Graduate Student Welcome

CSRE Senior Michael Tubbs and President Hennessy inspire at Convocation

Hennessy to new students: Follow the example set by Benjamin Franklin
Drawing inspiration from the life of Benjamin Franklin, a printer's apprentice who became one of the nation's Founding Fathers, President John Hennessy urged new students Tuesday to emulate two of Franklin's most important characteristics - intellectual curiosity and passion for learning.

President Hennessy called CSRE Senior Michael Tubb's speech "exhilarating and wonderful". Michael spoke of overcoming issues of belonging and achieving success at Stanford and beyond.

Video of 121st Opening Convocation Ceremony: [here]