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“Unprecedented: Memory as Resistance—Queer Archives in a Hostile Present”
May 7, 2025
noon–1:00 p.m.
CALS Spring Symposium “Horizons”
March 18, 2025
11:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
West with Giraffes Roundtable
February 25, 2025
4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Unprecedented: Isolation/Communication
November 12, 2024
noon–1:00 p.m.
Marathon Read—Youth on Fire: Stories of Growing Up
September 26, 2024
10:00 a.m.–10:00 p.m.
Dewey Room (W043) in the Collaboration Commons of the Pattee Library
American Working-Class Art and Literature Now
April 19, 2024
noon–1:00 p.m.
2024 CALS Graduate Award Symposium
April 18, 2024
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Grucci Room (102 Burrowes Building)
An Evening with Brendan Slocumb
March 20, 2024
7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Field Work: Journal Editors on Shaping Intellectual Life in the Academy
March 18, 2024
3:00 p.m.–4:45 p.m.
Dewey Room, Collaborative Commons, Pattee Library
“Lost and Found” Writing Contest
March 11, 2024
12:00 a.m.–11:59 p.m.
“The Art of Growing Up”
February 28, 2024
4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Healing Community: Black Women on The Arts and Liberation Pedagogy
February 16, 2024
noon–1:00 p.m.
“All the President’s Men at Fifty: Investigative Journalism in an Age of ‘Both Sides’”
January 19, 2024
noon–1:00 p.m.
CALS Unprecedented Webinar: “AI and the Labor(s) of Writing”
December 8, 2023
noon–1:00 p.m.
Marathon Read 2023 – Arrivals: Borders and Belongings
September 21, 2023
9:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.
CALS “Unprecedented” Webinar: Can Sports Save the English Department?
April 21, 2023
noon–1:00 p.m.
2023 CALS Graduate Awards Symposium
April 20, 2023
12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
Grucci Room (102 Burrowes Building)
Spring Symposium 2023 – The Genre Boom: Humanities and the Rise of Genre Fiction
March 24, 2023
1:15 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Grucci Room (102 Burrowes Building)
An Evening with Shelby Van Pelt
March 14, 2023
7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
“Who Knows?” Writing Contest
March 1, 2023
12:00 a.m.–11:59 p.m.
Twitter and the #Humanities: Online Research, Community, and Praxis
February 17, 2023
noon–1:00 p.m.
“Giving Voice to Animals”: A CALS/Centre County Reads Roundtable
February 15, 2023
4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Penn State’s Center for American Literary Studies presents Serial, True Crime, and Podcasting’s “Golden Age”
January 20, 2023
noon–1:00 p.m.
“Banding Together to Challenge Book Bans”
December 9, 2022
noon–1:00 p.m.
Marathon Read: The Pursuit of Sustainability
September 15, 2022
10:00 a.m.–10:00 p.m.
Pattee Mall
Racial Justice Protests and the Media: Unprecedented and Routine Violence
April 15, 2022
noon–1:00 p.m.
2022 CALS Graduate Awards Symposium
April 11, 2022
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
“Now What?” What Now?: Approaching a Precarious Present
March 18, 2022
noon–1:00 p.m.
“Sizing Up The Chair”
February 18, 2022
noon–1:00 p.m.
“Carlisle in Reverse”: Returning to a Sustainable Future
February 9, 2022
4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
The Role of the Humanities in Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy
January 21, 2022
noon–1:00 p.m.
The “Sustaining Stories” Writing Contest
December 7, 2021
4:00 p.m.–11:55 p.m.
“Grown Deep Like the Rivers”: The Black Lives Matter Movement(s) from Langston Hughes to the Present
December 3, 2021
noon–1:00 p.m.
2021 Marathon Read
September 9, 2021
10:00 a.m.–10:00 p.m.
American Literary Studies Beyond the Brink
April 16, 2021
noon–1:00 p.m.
2021 CALS Graduate Awards Symposium
April 8, 2021
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
An Evening with Deirdre Mask
March 20, 2021
10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
“Getting Personal: American Women Poets and the Autobiographical Lyric”
March 19, 2021
noon–1:00 p.m.
“Addressing Inequity”
March 15, 2021
4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
“Addressing Inequity”
March 15, 2021
4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Politics, Performance, and Pseudoscience
February 19, 2021
noon–1:00 p.m.
Expecting the Unprecedented: Speculative Fiction and the Climate Events of the Future
January 22, 2021
noon–1:00 p.m.
Sewing the Seeds of Activism in an Age of COVID-19: The Auntie Sewing Squad
December 11, 2020
noon–1:00 p.m.
2020 Marathon Read
October 22, 2020
10:00 a.m.–10:00 p.m.
Disability’s Environments
September 14, 2020
10:00 a.m.–3:15 p.m.
**CANCELLED** An Evening with Alice McDermott
April 16, 2020
12:00 a.m.–12:00 a.m.
HUB-Robeson Center, Freeman Auditorium
2020 CALS Graduate Awards Symposium
April 10, 2020
noon–1:15 p.m.
**CANCELLED** “American Dreams: Romance & Reality”
March 30, 2020
12:00 a.m.–12:00 a.m.
Mann Assembly Room, Paterno Library
Re-Viewing History: Centering The Stories of Immigrants
March 3, 2020
6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Waves Across the Ocean: The Background of Several Irish Migrations to Central Pennsylvania
February 15, 2020
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Centre County Reads Concert featuring Callanish
February 8, 2020
2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
The “Careful Writing” Writing Contest
February 5, 2020
8:55 p.m.–11:55 p.m.
Wild Nights with Emily
September 23, 2019
7:00 p.m.–9:30 p.m.
2019 Penn State Marathon Reading
September 19, 2019
10:00 a.m.–10:00 p.m.
The lawn in front of the Pattee/Paterno Library
2019 CALS Graduate Awards Symposium
April 10, 2019
12:15 p.m.–1:15 p.m.
Grucci Room (102 Burrowes
Meet the Creek
March 31, 2019
2:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Corruption
March 25, 2019
10:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library
“The Changing Nature of Nature Writing” Roundtable Discussion
March 12, 2019
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Mann Assembly Room, Paterno Library
Winter Bird Walk
February 23, 2019
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Film Night at the Library
February 1, 2019
1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Marathon Read 2018: Pages from 1968
September 13, 2018
10:00 a.m.–10:00 p.m.
First Book Institute
June 3, 2018
12:00 a.m.–12:00 a.m.
Penn State University Park Campus
A Discussion with Author Sunil Yapa
March 21, 2018
7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Freeman Auditorium, HUB
Institutionally Speaking: The Object(s) of American Literary and Cultural Criticism, The Seventh Annual CALS Spring Symposium
March 19, 2018
10:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
2018 Spring Symposium: Institutionally Speaking
March 19, 2018
10:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library
“The Art of Protest” Writing and Art Contests
March 1, 2018
12:00 a.m.–12:00 a.m.
“What is Activist Literature?” Roundtable
February 27, 2018
3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Mann Assembly Room, Paterno Library
Centre County Reads Kickoff Event
February 10, 2018
noon–3:00 p.m.
Marathon Read 2017
September 7, 2017
noon–noon
The lawn in front of Pattee/Paterno Library
December 7, 2021 | 4:00 pm

The “Sustaining Stories” Writing Contest

December 3, 2021 | 12:00 pm

“Grown Deep Like the Rivers”: The Black Lives Matter Movement(s) from Langston Hughes to the Present

September 9, 2021 | 10:00 am

2021 Marathon Read

January 22, 2021 | 12:00 pm

Expecting the Unprecedented: Speculative Fiction and the Climate Events of the Future

February 19, 2021 | 12:00 pm

Politics, Performance, and Pseudoscience

April 8, 2021 | 3:30 pm

2021 CALS Graduate Awards Symposium

March 20, 2021 | 10:00 am

An Evening with Deirdre Mask

April 16, 2021 | 12:00 pm

American Literary Studies Beyond the Brink

March 19, 2021 | 1:00 pm

Getting Personal: American Women Poets and the Autobiographical Lyric

March 15, 2021 | 4:00 pm

“Addressing Inequity”

December 11, 2020 | 12:00 pm

Sewing the Seeds of Activism in an Age of COVID: The Auntie Sewing Squad

October 22, 2020 | 10:00 am

2020 Marathon Read

April 10, 2020 | 12:00 pm

2020 CALS Graduate Awards Symposium

September 14, 2020 | 10:00 am

Disability’s Environments

April 16, 2020 | 12:00 am

**CANCELLED** An Evening with Alice McDermott

March 3, 2020 | 6:30 pm

Re-Viewing History: Centering The Stories of Immigrants

March 30, 2020 | 12:00 am

**CANCELLED** “American Dreams: Romance & Reality”

February 15, 2020 | 11:30 am

Waves Across the Ocean: The Background of Several Irish Migrations to Central Pennsylvania

February 8, 2020 | 2:00 pm

Centre County Reads Concert featuring Callanish

February 5, 2020 | 8:55 pm

The “Careful Writing” Writing Contest

September 19, 2019 | 10:00 am

2019 Penn State Marathon Reading

September 23, 2019 | 7:00 pm

Wild Nights with Emily

April 10, 2019 | 12:15 pm

2019 CALS Graduate Awards Symposium

March 25, 2019 | 10:00 am

Corruption

March 31, 2019 | 2:30 pm

Meet the Creek

March 12, 2019 | 3:30 pm

“The Changing Nature of Nature Writing” Roundtable Discussion

February 23, 2019 | 2:00 pm

Winter Bird Walk

February 1, 2019 | 1:00 pm

Film Night at the Library

March 19, 2018 | 10:00 am

Institutionally Speaking: The Object(s) of American Literary and Cultural Criticism, The Seventh Annual CALS Spring Symposium

September 13, 2018 | 10:00 am

Marathon Read 2018: Pages from 1968

June 3, 2018 | 12:00 am

First Book Institute

March 19, 2018 | 10:00 am

2018 Spring Symposium: Institutionally Speaking

March 21, 2018 | 7:00 pm

A Discussion with Author Sunil Yapa

February 27, 2018 | 3:30 pm

“What is Activist Literature?” Roundtable

February 10, 2018 | 12:00 pm

Centre County Reads Kickoff Event

March 1, 2018 | 12:00 am

“The Art of Protest” Writing and Art Contests

September 7, 2017 | 12:00 pm

Marathon Read 2017