Denton, TX- A multi-disciplinary steering committee from the University of North Texas will resume hosting its annual Postwar Faculty Colloquium on April 8 of this year. The annual event focuses on postwar studies (1945-1980s) across the disciplines and welcomes faculty participants from UNT and from area colleges and universities. Thanks to generous university sponsorship, the Colloquium features two leading researchers in post-WWII studies to serve as morning and afternoon keynote speakers at its one-day event.
"The Postwar Faculty Colloquium is for researchers in post-World War II studies in all disciplines from around the Metroplex", said Jacqueline Foertsch, professor of English. "We welcome our colleagues from around the North Texas/Oklahoma region each year, to grow this event with more faculty participation annually, and to learn from distinguished scholars in postwar studies as our keynote speakers", said Foertsch.
Postwar Faculty Colloquium welcomes both faculty and students in its audience, and faculty panel participants from a diverse array of disciplines, including history, art history, rhetoric and composition, communications, political science, emergency management, English, and media arts. It aims to foster a robust and engaged community of scholars. The broad scope of the colloquium allows UNT faculty to host conversations about an extraordinary number of genres, geographies, and times.
This year's morning keynote speaker, Dr. Amy Abugo Ongiri is Professor and Director of Ethnic Studies, University of Portland, and author of Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Arts Movement and the Search to Define a Black Aesthetic (Virginia 2009). She is at work on Damaged: The Symbionese Liberation Army, the Crisis of the New Left, and the Rise of Contemporary Media Culture. Dr. Ongiri has written numerous articles regarding the Black Panthers and Black Arts movement, African American film, and black spectatorship, and she is the recipient of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Outstanding Educator Award, Fox Cities Celebrate Diversity (2017), and numerous teaching and leadership recognitions. Professor Ongiri was Visiting Scholar, at National Taiwan Normal University (2012) and is an internationally invited speaker.
Attendees will hear the afternoon keynote from Dr. Erika Doss, Professor of American Studies; of Art, Art History, and Design; and of History at the University of Notre Dame. She is a Crystal Bridges Museum Fellow and recently a Senior Fellow at the Rockwell Center for America Visual Studies Society of Fellows. Dr. Doss is the author of numerous books, including Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, and Image (Kansas 1999) and most recently Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America (Chicago 2010) and American Art of the 20th-21st Centuries (Oxford 2019). Currently, she is a Gentling Fellow at the Amon Carter Museum.
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Event Info
What: University of North Texas, College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Department of English Postwar Faculty Colloquium
When: Friday, April 8, 2022
Time: 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Where: Willis 250H on UNT Denton Campus
POC: Dr. Jacqueline Foertsch, Professor | Jacqueline.Foertsch@unt.edu | 940-565-2050
2022 Distinguished Visitors
Morning Keynote: Amy Abugo Ongiri, "Patty Hearst Beat Tape: Pleasure, Struggle, Transformation, and the Symbionese Liberation Army"
Professor and Director of Ethnic Studies (University of Portland), Dr. Ongiri is author of Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic (Virginia 2009) and is an internationally invited speaker. Her work has appeared in Journal of African American History, Camera Obscura, and Black Filmmaker among others.
Afternoon Keynote: Erika Doss, "Technology and Sex and Blood: How Life Magazine Shaped Postwar American Tastes and Desire"
Professor of American Studies (Notre Dame University), Dr. Doss is currently a Crystal Bridges Museum Fellow and former Senior Fellow at the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies Society of Fellows. She is author of (among others) American Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries (Oxford 2017) and Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, and Image (Kansas 1999) a Choice Outstanding Title.